Who is/will be the 1st TTR member to drive Electric Semi-Truck?

Funny I keep hearing emission free, schneider getting its electricity out of thin air, do they build em with thin air? Its a scam

 

There needs to be early adopters of new technology because without them nothing would get worked out or made better and the technology wouldn’t trickle down to the rest of us.

 

Haha I don't want the technology, it will never be in my professional driving career, that everything is ready for all electric trucks. I'm not against the electric revolution, however how they are shoving it down our throats I am against. The grid is no where near ready for cars, let alone semi trucks and I don't know it will ever be ready for that. All the people falling for this environmental bs, need to really look at the bigger picture here, what is actually better for the environment? Electric has little to nothing to better the environment, it's not zero emissions, it's not even close 75% of our electricity comes from fossil fuels, the mining that has to happen for the precious metals is worse than anything that old trucks are doing to the environment. The electric revolution is about control, it is the way they are pushing everything to 15 minutes cities, which is also not better for the environment, but people are easier to control when they can't get more than 15 minutes away from you and have no freedom. The whole thing wreaks of you will own nothing and you will be happy, luckily for me if #### truly hits the fan I would be perfectly happy out in the woods, hunting and fishing, not eating bugs and being self sufficient.

 

So how do they start getting the technology out without actually trying to get the technology out? Short of California I don’t see how anyone would be forced to buy into it. From a business standpoint if it makes sense for some then why shouldn’t they try it and see?

 

Usually the way innovation works is how the market dictates it, like going from mechanical engines to electronic engines, the market dictated the change for a ton of reasons, innovation doesn't come from holding a gun to someone's head and tell them to make something, it comes from the market dictating the change and companies seeing the value in it. Look at the emissions crap, the market didn't dictate a change, the govt basically held a gun to your head and said if you want a new truck you are buying this crap, no one in there right mind would take a modern emissions engine over a modern non emissions truck, they are less reliable on a lot of fronts and cost alot more to operate. But since the market couldn't dictate the change the govt forced it by not allowing the market to change on its own. They are forcing the same thing here shortly with upping the emissions standard in a couple years, it will be the same as it was in 08 when trucks are once again less reliable but you are forced to buy one if you want a new truck. They are going to start forcing the change to electric also, this is how they get there 15 minutes city, no one including trucking companies will have a way to move freight past a couple hundred miles one way. Alot of people think they can't make it happen and eliminate otr all together, but if you look the way things are going they are going to force it and they are going to be successful doing it, they already have most of the infrastructure in place to do it, warehousing and almost everything is in place in alot of areas. Railroad is getting more and more freight for long runs and trucking will be a local only deal in the pretty near future, well with in the next 20 years

 

I don’t get it. Who is holding a gun against your head? Even if you WANTED to buy an electric semi, you couldn’t. There’s a waiting list years out, and you can buy diesel truck of every make, model and configuration available much, much quicker and cheaper than an electric truck.

As far as the market demanding it, that’s precisely what is happening. DEMAND by early adopters created Tesla and turned it into a 2 million cars a year company, worth more than the Big 3 combined.

DEMAND from fleets for cheaper to operate semis is driving the engineering effort behind electric semis. And if there was a proven electric semi available that could easily go 400 miles on a 30 minute charge, I’d buy one tomorrow. Period. Between the cost savings and never having to deal with emissions crap ever again, it’s an economic no brainer.

 

Using a single diesel generator to provide power to the charging station uses less fuel and emits less co2 than running individual engines in each piece of equipment.

 

Curious who forced Schneider to test almost 100 of these trucks? Who forced Freightliner to build them? Electric has been used for years in municipal and medium duty trucks so the natural progression would be to develop class 8 electric vehicles for short haul use. If nobody is the first to try something new then nobody will ever know if it’s viable or not.

 

Might be at this point but a few more years from now I bet it will be on par to fuel cost. Lots more electric trucks and cars are gonna cause that supply demand thing to happen.

 

What about all the emissions that was caused to dig up and produce all the batteries? What about the waste of the batteries? What about the waste in the way tires are ate up faster? Lot's of other issues to look at in the big picture to claim it is emissions free.

With saying all of that I also am a fan of electric but not because they claim it is emissions free. It has a lot of potential, especially if they can produce the solid state battery they have been talking about.