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Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. by brewdad on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:14PM (#37935499)
Much like an EV can't be the only vehicle in most US households quite yet, we can still make a lot of progress in reducing pollution (noise and particulates) by getting rid of gas powered equipment where it makes sense. Cutting down a 60 year old tree is not a weekly occurrence. Aerating a lawn happens once or twice a year. Your other examples might happen once a decade or less at any given home.

Keep the gas powered equipment where it's needed but the typical weekly lawn service can replace their mowers and leaf blowers today with only slight tweaks to their day to day operations.

Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. by wutwutwat on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:17PM (#37936092)
> Cutting down a 60 year old tree is not a weekly occurrence

The tree company I used to work for begs to differ. Our 2 man crew alone could do 2-4 trees a day depending on size, with one guy in the tree with a saw and one on the ground running the chipper and cutting the large bits into smaller pieces.

Every example I gave was in context of the comment I'm replying to, and that comment was talking about commercial crews doing this stuff all day every day and replacing their loud gas powered equipment with electric solutions. Tree companies, lawn services, fence installers, lawn care/landscaping places.

> Keep the gas powered equipment where it's needed but the typical weekly lawn service can replace their mowers and leaf blowers today with only slight tweaks to their day to day operations.

Weekly for you. Every single day for the crew, sometimes all weekend too if they fall behind due to rain, etc. They have to have EV that is just as powerful and easy to jump on and get going, run all day long and operate in dirt and wet grass, and not cost a million dollars in chargers and spare batteries, which if they are lithium ion batteries, have to be replaced a lot more often than a gas engine w/ regular oil changes would. And when the electric motors burn out (they have bushings and coils which wear out with use), I can't imagine they will be cheap or available at lawn supply stores where you can go to get any gas engine part you need to fix your money maker that day

I'm all for electric replacements, it's just a long way off imo. These machines get beat on daily and have to keep running. Gas is easy, produces plenty of power, and is cheap compared to an aresonal of batteries and chargers and electric motors and all that goes with wiring those things in wet enviroments

Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. by Dylan16807 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:56PM (#37938181)
Of course they're talking about how often something happens in a specific location, not how often it happens for the person that makes house calls doing exactly that as their job.
Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. by smileysteve on Thursday October 19, 2023 @01:18AM (#37938790)
Heavy Duty means something for commercial vehicles and it's not gasoline, it's diesel.