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  • kyletxria1911a1

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    TAZ

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    Work trucks. You guys are actually funny. What % of the commercial pick up market actually goes to a world truck? What % of the commercial pick up market goes to city fellers who've never seen a job site? I'd bet the majority are folks who use their trucks as every day commuters with the occasional trip to the hardware store or load up the bikes...

    Also if you have 110 at said work site you could plug in and charge while you're sitting there.
     

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    Also if you have 110 at said work site you could plug in and charge while you're sitting there.

    That doesn't scale well. If half or more of the cars in a parking lot need to charge at work, either parking lots are rebuilt with electrical outlets everywhere, or there is a mess of extension cords. (works great in the rain or snowy mushy they have up North except for that snow plow part).

    Also, who pays for all this electricity? A couple of hundred cars every day can add up.
     

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    That doesn't scale well. If half or more of the cars in a parking lot need to charge at work, either parking lots are rebuilt with electrical outlets everywhere, or there is a mess of extension cords. (works great in the rain or snowy mushy they have up North except for that snow plow part).

    Also, who pays for all this electricity? A couple of hundred cars every day can add up.

    Well, unless we are talking about some government type operation where we have 17 supervisors sitting around surfing for porn while 2 guys work, I'm not really sure we need scale much. Every work site I've visited or driven by had people working on it not sitting on their asses. Those who were sitting were doing so in a trailer, not their trucks. As for who would pay, the same guys who are paying for the electric already, the site owners.

    Doesn't matter though. As I've said the majority of pickemup sakes aren't going to folks doing much work with them. They are going to urban cowboy wannabes who wouldn't know a hard day of manual labor if their lives depended on it. We are talking about folks whose stress on a truck = idling for 3 hours a day in bumper to bumper traffic. The people who actually work with their vehicles will still buy the big assed diesels and keep doing what they are.
     

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    ... Every work site I've visited or driven by had people working on it not sitting on their asses. Those who were sitting were doing so in a trailer, not their trucks.

    But if it's a fixed price contract, this doesn't cost the owner a single extra dime. It only costs the construction company. As a site owner, that's not a great concern, only that the job gets done.


    As for who would pay, the same guys who are paying for the electric already, the site owners.

    And why would the site owner want to pay for everyone to charge their truck? Out of their kind heart? Site owners could also buy everyone lunch every day, but I don't see that happening anywhere. Besides, most construction power is temporary power on new work, which means the owner's not paying for that either.
     

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    Wouldn't that be something... pulling up to a work site and seeing electric trucks plugged into a diesel generator. Power to them if they want to discover less efficient means of using fossil fuels.

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    I just read that whole Wikipedia article, and I'm still unsure of how those trolleytrucks work. Are there routes they run, with power cords above them the entire time? Seems like that would be more trouble than it's worth.
     
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