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Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by fossuser on Monday July 26, 2021 @01:25PM (#27962242)
Trucking has tradeoffs in both directions - EVs are cheaper, and easier to maintain, trucks are huge and can have a lot of battery capacity. I think what's better depends on specific circumstance.

For large apartment complexes there will probably need to be some load balancing, but seems manageable. Power going out doesn't seem like that big of a deal, more likely to have some charge in the car and it's more likely to find power than gas in a crisis (long lines at gas stations etc.)

Long trips by car via super charger are pretty easy for everything except 700+mi trips which are very rare for vast majority. Unlikely to shift anything to air travel, if anything lower EV fuel costs could shift other direction.

For snow my parents have had only EVs in Buffalo and have been fine. They also drive down the east coast to Florida.

Re:Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to e... by Animats on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:22PM (#27964087)
While electric sports cars and the electric Ford F-150 gets most of the attention, the boring Ford Transit, America's work van, is about to come out in electric.[1] In a few years, most businesses where all the vans spend the night in the fenced company parking lot will probably be going electric, just to save on fuel cost.

The electric version is still US$7K more than the gasoline version. When that price differential disappears, it's all over for the IC engine.

[1] https://www.ford.com/commercial-trucks/e-transit/2022/