CA bans the sale of new diesel trucks by 2036! Jeebezus! Things are out of control in CA.

LegitDuner said:
Anyone confirm this info? Quite interesting...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Crk-bHWL1HG/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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The weight, he’s correct. 

Assuming 30 trucks had a 500kWh (300-ish mile range) battery and you’re recharging them from nearly empty daily, that’s 15MWh of electricity, about equivalent to about 5-600 average houses. Not a city, but still a lot of juice. 

Google says a smallish engine plant uses 182MWh per day, so yeah, he’s full of sheeyit there. 

 
DOT has supposedly spotted BEV trucks 2K lbs. They can gross 82K and be legal. What I have not seen is how they can meet the axle weight and bridge laws. A Cummins X15 weighs roughly 3,200 lbs, plus maybe 200-300 for the aftertreatment, which goes away, but BEV still needs a substantial system to keep the batteries in a safe/optimum temperature range, so BEV fans often exaggerate how much weight is being removed from a comparable diesel truck.

 
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1HasBeen said:
DOT has supposedly spotted BEV trucks 2K lbs. They can gross 82K and be legal. What I have not seen is how they can meet the axle weight and bridge laws. A Cummins X15 weighs roughly 3,200 lbs, plus maybe 200-300 for the aftertreatment, which goes away, but BEV still needs a substantial system to keep the batteries in a safe/optimum temperature range, so BEV fans often exaggerate how much weight is being removed from a comparable diesel truck.
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Plus the motor, drivetrain, etc. 

 
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