Yet the trade group they all belong to, the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, is arguing that federal and state rules intended to boost numbers of zero-emission trucks are too onerous.
EMA’s president, Jed Mandel, said the demand isn’t necessarily there. “Their customers haven’t bought them yet, and there’s no guarantee they will,” he said of Volvo and Daimler’s plans. Mandel also argued that EPA’s proposal creates more regulatory uncertainty because the agency had already settled on greenhouse gas standards through model year 2027 under the Obama administration, which he said are already “very challenging.
Only about 6,000 of the roughly 4.5 million medium- and heavy-duty trucks on U.S. roads last year were battery-powered, according to ACT Research, a firm that does analysis and forecasting for the commercial vehicle industry. Most of them were buses, which typically make shorter trips than trucks.
Let do a pole, my next vehicle be a
The manufacturing of EVs is devastating to the planet. I wish the media reported accurately on this.
I am not sure I want to buy an Electric vehicle, especially when the battery will have to be replaced in few short years, costing as much as the car would be worth then.
Because the political system and lobbyists, do not represent the true needs of society. Capital flows through the cracks of corruption
Electric vehicles are not the save all. People will be forced to change life style, spend more on a vehicle/charging station, all batteries will need replaced and that will primarily effect the used car market, what about apartment dwellers and rural residents. A lot unanswered.
B-cuz ... amerikkka is the land of hypocrisy
This EV efforts will result in failure, the market for EV is not bib enough. It will result in a environment disaster disposing the large batteries.
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