“If we want more growth, we need to allow creative destruction so new companies can deliver the productivity we need.”

Octopus energy ceo greg jackson

  • kugel7c@feddit.org
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    14 hours ago

    Well the energy prices of today make electric trucking including long haul demonsterabley worth it financially so I don’t really know what you’re talking about. Tesla just made a bad truck and was late to the market as far as I know.

    Diesel i would presume isn’t as expensive over in the US as it is here in Europe but if you think it’ll ever stabilise at a place significantly cheaper than right now I don’t think your projections of the energy market are worth anything.

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Energy prices don’t kill this. Work costs, and upfront investment does. If half of the capacity is taken by batteries by default, you need to buy twice the number of trucks, and employ twice the drivers. This is completely infeasible business strategy.