Older trucks to be outlawed; Myth or Fact?

Being a guy always thinking ways to get better mileage all the time. I went and bought a Toyota Prius, yes a Prius. I am having a blast with this car having taking the correct way to drive it quite seriously I have consistently gotten better then 60mpg. 500 plus miles out of a 9 gallon tank. Well my local dealer had a huge thank you party and I drove my rig, Freightliner Cascadia and Biggies from Toyota were there from Japan . I approached them and asked why Toyota doesn't try what they did with the Prius in the heavy truck market. Showed them my trucks everything discussed my 7mpg somedays 8 and said I would love to see a hybrid heavy truck that recharges its own batteries with the brakes and or lifting your foot off the pedal , completely shutting off the need for fuel while running all alone on just the batteries. I think I opened some eyes here. Probably wont see anything in my time but it would be cool. Just a thought

 

How is this Germaine to the question asked ?

 

The god #### germans aint got nothing to do with it! LOL

 

How did the BIGGIES from Toyota understand your question?? Do you speak Japanese fluently????

 

LOL ! Neither did his answer !

 

Remember though, we are under the emperor's regime. He can regulate you however he wants. And there is no government body that will stop him. So it's probably best not to give the EPA any ideas since their probably monitoring everything being talked about here in the forum.......lol

 

Ahh yes Volvo driver....it's done everyday under the HGAC and TERP programs. The gooberment will give you up to 70k for your old iron against a new one if you play nice nice and travel where they say and let them track you.........

 

As far as I know it can't. The EOBR is linked directly to the ECM. What they can do is use a GPS for tracking and speed but have no way to monitor idling, braking etc.

I dunno, hard to say.

 

Exactly, it was just a thought I had, being retired from the Navy you might be surprised what I can speak, lol. I do speak German fluently because I was born in Stuttgart . Now a full time gear thrower. C'mon guys , Toyota trucks are built here duh, they speak Californian , so I have to much time on my hands

 

Yes, Kawasaki, Yamaha , Honda, hah.