Hello; I guess that might work. Guess the batteries would be huge and very expensive. Likely need to have an extra truck to ferry the charged batteries back an forth and also have an extra BEV truck or few since there are not replaceable battery packs for a BEV pickup yet.The champions will say to just buy several tractors. Like the extra battery packs I have for my power tools.
Surely the only observation to make is that IF emissions control systems would ever be fitted without regulations they would have been! They weren't. For over 100 years cars had no emissions controls and pushed fuel into the engines very rich. That carried on until regulations forced a change.As always you missed the point. Nowhere was I advocating getting rid of diesels - in fact I traveled around Germany few years back in Gold TDI and it was surprisingly fun on highways - the point we were discussing was emissions control without regulations - which kind of in a way is what this entire thread is about - if anyone thinks companies would ever put emissions equipment on the cars without being forced to (VW emissions diesel scandal is a nicely fitting example - that TDi I drove probably was one of those), you had to be really missing fundamentals of how capitalistic society operates and what is the only thing that matters to corporations...
And don't think anyone could make a business case to start making cars with emissions equipment purely on the fact that some people will buy them because it's good for environment (it's also not a reason people buy hybrids or EVs - also very fitting in this thread).
Diesel in plant and farm machinery will be replaced by hydrogen ICE. This has been mentioned on this thread over and over again, and I have even posted a link to firms such as JCB which have working systems and equipment using hydrogen. Some on here choose not to listen or even acknowledge this which is a little bit sad.Time to switch to EVs then. LOL.
There are realists and dreamers. The dreamers in this thread think they can wish something and it will magically appear. The realists say slow down and let the technology and infrastructure catch up.The thread lives only because of their continued bitching about the changes happening all around them that threaten the status quo.
What you are missing (or choose to) is that progress needs to be forced - because corporations only care about their financial metrics and absolutely nothing else and will always choose what is cheaper (lack of development is much much cheaper). This pretty much sums up this thread again.There are realists and dreamers. The dreamers in this thread think they can wish something and it will magically appear. The realists say slow down and let the technology and infrastructure catch up.
The propaganda from Cummins is all nice and fuzzy.
Hello; Yes , someone let me know when farmers can go buy heavy duty hydrogen powered equipment.There are realists and dreamers. The dreamers in this thread think they can wish something and it will magically appear. The realists say slow down and let the technology and infrastructure catch up.
The propaganda from Cummins is all nice and fuzzy.
Hello; Yes I and others understand the "FORCE" mindset. We had good examples of it during the Covid debacles. Lockdowns, mandated vaccine shots that do not work very well, if at all. ( Thinking of the dead folks who had all the shots and still died with/from covid), mask mandates, Covid vaccine identity cards we had to carry. Lost jobs because someone did not want to have a new and experimental vaccine injected into their body.What you are missing (or choose to) is that progress needs to be forced - because corporations only care about their financial metrics and absolutely nothing else and will always choose what is cheaper (lack of development is much much cheaper). This pretty much sums up this thread again.
Maybe in the past development happened for other reasons, but these days it has to be forced.
Hello; Yes. your example is more stark than mine but i get it. These champions of the green/BEV agendas started out trying to coax others into buying into the agendas with rhetoric for a while. Now they openly tout the use of mandates and force, even before the have the absolute power in hand.Apparently accepting that no government has ever had the greater good of humanity in mind is hard for some to accept. Power and abuse only begets more power and abuse.
Hello; I take some exception to this idea. Corporations make what sells. If enough people want a product to create a viable market some outfit will cater to them. Likely lots of examples. Rolex watches and nice watches in general. Not a huge demand for expensive watches but enough with the funds to keep a niche market going.- because corporations only care about their financial metrics and absolutely nothing else and will always choose what is cheaper (lack of development is much much cheaper). This pretty much sums up this thread again.