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How We Charged 13 EVs at SUV of the Year Without Losing Our Minds
A pair of portable, hydrogen fuel cell DC fast chargers from GM's Hydrotec powered the electric vehicles at MotorTrend’s 2023 SUV of the Year competition.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/suv-of-the-year-hydrogen-fuel-cell-hydrotec-ev-charging/

 

How come it gets to haul 82,000 and other trucks are limited at 80,000?

 

Metric???

 

Musk keeps touting the Tesla speed advantage of cruising at 82 mph, and FMCSA is getting ready to slap a speed limiter on all commercial vehicles.

 

maybe they can get away with it since it has all the sensors and self-driving stuff? Not that it stops anything, but probably does help

 

Because it weighs an extra 2000 lbs in virtue signaling and broken promises.

 

The 2k lbs is a “ green credit “ since it’s electric
Otr trucks get I believe a 400 lb allowance for an apu or generator- you know since it saves the environment

biggest scam in trucking is crying about emissions yet making every truck in the us only
Drive 11 hours a day and idle the rest …. or whatever the current hours of service rule is haha
Paper log , night driving is how we roll. I don’t need the gov
Telling me how much I can work .

 

How many drivers named Apu do you guys have?

 

Well played haha

any of you drivers bumped into the dui checkpoints lately ? In the last couple months I’ve encountered 3 random dui checkpoints for trucks only on the interstates

 

Yeahh...mmkay..just a little jack stand goes a long way

 

Whoever loaded that trailer has the most remarkable lack of common sense.

 

For some of you guys running older diesels there's some pretty sweet EPA and state grants right now to scrap them for a new CARB certified diesel , and you keep the scrap money

 

No, thats MY fucking tax money. Dont take it.

 

Mine also.

Cant get my old trucks fixed, or find parts, might as well upgrade

 

Given current events the epa might be broke!

 

I had a dickhead x military boss once upon a time.He didnt know shit about loading trailers.He put several pallets of nails in the nose of a 53" and it went over with him in it,and i couldnt have been happier.Still makes me smile thinking about it,that and the vaseline the office guys put on his office phone.Dude had zero people skills

 

Gliders are also a great option

 

Maybe, maybe not. The truck may have been fully loaded to begin with and then had most of the load taken off leaving it nose-heavy in which case the guy who dropped it would be at fault. It looks like that trailer is set up to carry heavy loads, four heavy pallets in the nose could do that. I've seen it happen at the dock when they drop and don't use trailer jacks. They should have just dropped the dolly instead of unhitching the trailer.

 

Michigan is going the direction of Commiefornia. Theres electric vehicle assembly plants all over now, and with that, the battery plants need to be in close proximity because they're heavy and hazardous.

My worry is if they start doing that emissions testing bullshit my whole damn fleet is useless. Ill be basically outta business with one swipe of a pen.

The EPA grant coupled with the state grant refunds me around 35% of sticker price on the new truck. Plus they drive so much damn better. Our new Pete isn't even in the same category as our 90's Kenworths. It isn't even a fair comparison.