I think, the drive to reduce emissions has the potential to drive transportation technology development in a positive direction. Oceanic and air transit really hasnt evolved significantly since the invention of the ICE. Maybe its time for a significant leap in those departments.
We have a couple quarries near our home that have local dump trucks moving materials in and out all day. I navigate around them 4 times a day at least and every single truck coming in and out of those yards spews clouds of black smoke at all times while driving. Thing is, these trucks seem to only drive around town, picking up and dropping off materials within a handful of miles from their yards. Makes me wonder why we havent seen short range high capacity EV trucks yet. Seems to me that electric motors are ideal for that application. I thought Volvo had developed an EV freight truck a year or two ago but maybe that is only in Europe. I certainly havent seen any here.
I don't know about Volvo, but I recently heard that Freightliner stopped EVERYTHING that has to do with E-trucks, R&D, Production, selling etc.
I do think that for use like in above situation it would be a good alternative, while on the long haul they are worthless as far as I read.
For Ship's on the other hand, are you aware that at least in Europe (as far as I know) they are obliged by law to run their engines on "proper" fuel to get cleaner emissions as long as they are in National waters, I saw a reportage in that they have different fuel bunkers for different fuels, and they need to switch over on the "proper" fuel before they enter "national waters". and there is a system for registration in place it seems.
And for E-vehicles, at least in Europe, at the beginning they were heavily subsidised, so everyone would buy one, and honestly, to use them inside cities, I see the goal.
But the problem is with those politicians, while they only live inside big cities like Paris, they just can't imagine that there is a existing world outside their city, I bet they never ever have seen real natural grass!?, so they base their decisions on what they know, and don't realise that those obligatory E-vehicles (in which they want us to drive,even in the rural areas) they don't have the range we need, so there will be a lot of walking in our future :-(
Here there is a law in place that after 2035 no more dino fueled new vehicles are to be sold.
But then what!?? the electric grid network is already at it's max, in industrial areas new businesses are withheld electric connections to the grid, while it's already overcharged, and then, when everybody has a e-vehicle? how are they gonna charge it?
And further, all (European) governments by now start to impose different taxes on those vehicles, in the beginning they were subsidised, and now when there are quite some people owning one they start taxing them!? you gotta love our governments, don't you?
Freightliner stops completely with E-trucks, I mean as a giant as them don't see a future in E-powered transport, that must ring some bells, don't you think?
E-vehicles? I don't see a bright future for them, do you?
