Month: May 2023

Battery-powered trucks would cost far more than diesel equivalent, have range of only 150-330 miles, require several charges for a long-distance delivery

Andrew Boyle, first vice-chair of the American Trucking Associations, testified before a US Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on the future of clean vehicles. While acknowledging that cars and light-duty trucks are appropriate for electrification, transport trucks are unsuitable for the following reasons:

• Today, a diesel truck takes 15 minutes to refuel anywhere in the country, giving it a range of 1,200 miles before refueling again.
• Long-haul battery-electric trucks require up to 10 hours to recharge, for a range of 150-330 miles.

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We aren’t suffering more disasters, we are just logging more of them into the UN database. What we should worry about is the looming energy shortage if we hope to read ‘Net Zero’

Paul Homewood, The Conservative Woman, May 5, 2023

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According to Associated Press last year:  “A disaster-weary globe will be hit harder in the coming years by even more catastrophes colliding in an interconnected world, a United Nations report issued Monday says. If current trends continue the world will go from around 400 disasters per year in 2015 to an onslaught of about 560 catastrophes a year by 2030, the scientific report by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said.… Read more