I drive 110-120 miles round trip for work daily. I need to carry 40-80 gallons of diesel fuel, about 800 pounds of tools, and my butt. I fully plan on an electric for my next truck.
$6 worth of electricity vs $25 of gas sounds good to me.
If ya need to tow 12,000 lbs 500 miles every day, an electric truck is not for you. Yet. They’ll make one eventually that can do that. For now, they’ll make what they can sell a ton of. Light duty crew cab trucks.
I don’t understand the mindset of those who think their freedoms are being stripped away. Do they still sell new HD trucks? Yep. Gas and diesel. They will five years from now. So, hypothetically, they mandate ‘no new gas or diesel HD trucks after 2040’. So? Buy a 2039 model. Have it rebuilt when it needs it.
If battery tech continues to advance as it has the last 20 years, you’ll see electric trucks in the future that outperform current gas or diesel trucks.
And yes, we can switch from gas to electric without the grid melting. I’m looking into a solar array for my home. Sell the excess during the day when I don’t need it, but the grid draws. Charge my truck at night when the grid has excess capacity.
That is part of the problem. Folks that don't recognize that government mandates about what we can no longer purchase with our own money are in fact trampling our rights.
It's not about "fear" or any other liberal double talk tripe. It's about the government (at any level) mandating from above what we are "allowed" to purchase with our own money. These are not items that the benign maternal government of all goodness are giving to us for free. These are durable goods that we are making decisions on spending our own money (what we haven't already turned over to the government in taxes) on.
When steam power, and then gas/diesel power first started taking over farming, transportation, etc, the government did not Mandate that we all stopped using horses. It was a case by case, consumer/citizen by individual citizen choice that was made based on what fit the specific consumer's needs and economics. My paternal great grandfather continued to farm with horses until after the end of WWII. It was his choice, his decision. It took until then for him to decide that a gas tractor was now in his own best interest to meet both his work needs, as well has his individual financial needs. Before that, he always considered tractors "too expensive". He didn't "fear" tractors. He decided he didn't want to pay what was to him, and exorbitant price for one.
These are the "rights" we are troubled with losing. And those of us that are "troubled" by this, are more troubled that it seems the large majority of people are so eager to give those rights away. Once rights are given up voluntarily, it is extremely difficult to get them back.
Of course the day will come when electric (or other) powered equipment will make more sense to most of the masses, and they will voluntarily "vote" with their wallets and go that way. But the technology, the infrastructure, and the cost to the individual will have to make sense to them to do so.
Commanding it to be so, by government orders, is not the way to accomplish that.
