8 of the Biggest Lies About Diesel Engines

[A Traveler]

The problem for trucks and other large vehicles is fuel storage space. The energy density of diesel fuel is THIRTY TIMES GREATER than a Lithium-Ion battery of the same physical size. Battery tech must improve drastically before it will be viable to the long-haul trucker. It ain’t gonna happen because there are other fuel sources (hydrogen, for example) that in the long run will prove much more viable and create much less pollution than EV’s.

We are being sold a bill of goods by the EV nuts that is mostly pie-in-the-sky emotional nonsense. They conveniently ignore the pollution created and the energy used to produce the Lithium-Ion batteries in the first place. Add that to the discussion and EV’s quickly lose their luster.

A comment about the trucker’s life. The nice, neat, “drive for 11 hours and charge for 13 hours” is not realistic. There are many times when a driver will be stuck at a shipper for hours getting loaded or unloaded. He may have to take his 10-hour break at the shipper or a nearby parking lot where there is no charging infrastructure. Drivers cannot count on spending their 10-hour break at a truck stop loaded with those “million watt chargers” every night.

 

[Onyrlef]

With a heavy load and throw in terrain,, home much time will be dedicated to recharging.. while the diesel is barreling down the road..>>>Dan

Battery powered over the road freight haulers moving 80,000 lbs ain't happening anytime soon. The problem is analogous to the reason nothing with mass can exceed the speed of light. It takes mass to produce energy and the amount of mass required to produce the energy to propel an atom faster than 186,000 mps is greater than the amount of mass in the universe. For electric vehicles, the size of the battery required to make over the road freight trucking practical makes it impractical.

 

[Skookum]

If commercial EV or diesel hybrid trucks begin to represent cost savings over traditional diesel heavy duty trucks anytime soon, adoption may happen sooner than later.

 

[DonTom]

hey conveniently ignore the pollution created and the energy used to produce the Lithium-Ion batteries in the first place.

Nope, not ignored and is rather well known. Perhaps the ONLY thing that is true about ONE way where ICE is cleaner than the EV.

But if you would like to look at the entire picture, see here.

Since then, I discovered the tire thing was BS, leaving only the MUCH dirtier building of the EV.

-Don- Reno, NV