meanwhile trump pays billions of taxpayer dollars to cancel solar and windfarm projects so his citizens can pay for the highest diesel prices ever that he caused.
Highest ever and yet at the same time incredibly cheap
If they have enough range to get from start of day to your mandatory break and fast chargers are ubiquitous enough to be able to make that break whereever, they’re kind of a no-brainer at this point. Fuel costs are already punishing the transport industry here, times were bad even before 2€/liter, now at 2.20 on some days, I imagine a lot of companies will just stop paying transport companies’ invoices lol
Yeah. As fuel prices go up and up my EV still costs me about $3 per 100 miles if I charge from home.
Eh, not super worried about fuel costs as a private citizen myself. €5 per 100 km vs €15 for 100 km makes zero difference compared to €1500 for a car vs €30000 for a car. Transport companies are different, they can’t afford to drive old depreciated luxury beaters like I do (because an old Audi or BMW is cheaper than an equivalently aged Toyota, but much nicer to drive). The trucks are usually driven for a few years before they’re sold to companies that are less averse to the risk of breakdowns and such. So they already have tons of capex, they can just increase it a bit to reduce their opex significantly, whereas I’d have to increase my capex a LOT to decrease my opex a bit.