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Rush to electric vehicles goes off the rails
| 题名： | Rush to electric vehicles goes off the rails |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Jason McDaniel |
| 摘要： | If you want to see Groendyke President and CEO Greg Hodgen get fired up, ask him about battery-electric trucks. Then take a step back just to be safe. "This race toward battery-electric vehicles is nuts," Hodgen declared during a recent interview with Bulk Transporter for this month's cover story celebrating Groendyke's 90 years as a family-owned and -operated tank truck carrier (see page 14). "The electric grid can't support it, the range on trucks with batteries doesn't support going that direction, and the weight of the batteries is going to be heavily punitive on tank truckers because we're so volume dependent, so we've got to stop the conversation about running toward battery-electric vehicles, and right now it's all being driven by that conversation, and people think that's zero emissions and it's not. "The lifecycle, from the mining of lithium to creating the batteries, to then creating the electricity to charge them, must come from some kind of fuel source-whether it's coal, natural gas, nuclear, or wind. Something must create that electricity. And then when you're done with the batteries, what do you do with them? |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Bulk Transporter |
| 卷： | 84 |
| 期： | 12 |
| 页码： | 6-6 |
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