Bye Bye legacy dash...peterbilt is going all digital.

Paccar is looking to gracefully exit the hood business as they did with gliders, partially driven by EPA standards and partially driven by the large fleets who are constantly willing to purchase new equipment if it promises increased fuel efficiency.
As was stated above the gages are not as useful with the advent of computers that can present data to the driver when something goes wrong. Lol take a look sometime at an older DC-9 commercial airliner’s flight deck and a new all glass A350 flight deck and you’ll see what that industry went through. It’s just our turn...

 

Not to mention the environmental impact is worse mining for the resources to make the batteries. Far more than fuel. Pipe dream and our elect infrastructure couldn’t handle the load. Then trying to recycle those batteries

 

The electrical grid can barely handle everything we're throwing at it now. I have a feeling electricians, construction workers, linemen etc are going to be in great demand to make this pipe dream a reality.

 

You were talking about the vin plate from a wreck. Which would do no good if they actually start enforcing that emissions have to match the vehicle year. And I do think it’s somewhat foolish to think that everyone can just keep running old trucks forever.

 

Those and the money printers, they'll be burning up the presses trying to print enough cash to build the power sources for that much juice.

 

Not according to a salesman in York NE. He said Paccar has no updates planned for the W900 and that means the 389 will be around longer. Look for KW to sunset the W900 in the future.

 

And let’s not look over the fact that the Obama-era fuel economy standards for class 8 vehicles will be coming back because Trump used an E.O. to get them stopped while he was in office. So the manufacturers that sell hoods will have to push a lot of aero trucks out the door in order to keep their mpg averages within the standards.

 

I think that could go either way. If a classic is selling, why mess with it? Folks who want the digital stuff and a more modern appearance will opt for the W990.

I heard the same thing about the T800 being discontinued once the T880 came on the market. That was like what, almost a decade ago now.

Or it could mean the W900 is getting phased out. Either way doesn't effect me lol.

 

W900 according to KW still makes up 18% of the truck sales. They have no updates planned simply because drivers that buy those trucks have voiced opposition to any changes. Thankfully
I will be ordering 2 w900L by fall of this year. Love the studio sleepers and they are a fantastic truck.

 

Who do you think is building all the screens?