Trucks apparently are only about 25% of US emissions. Using hybrid would remove emissions from city centers (where your lungs are the recycling filters)
Freight is one of the only use case that requires long range, private cars are used something like 40km per day on average.
Having an electric drive train increases reliability, and having a diesel engine running at peak efficiency 24/7 will be much more reliable than a regular engine, especially given the abuse they take from trucks. (+ not as much stress on the batteries vs quick charge)
> The time and money being spent on developing hybrid technology could be better spent on making fully electric vehicles more affordable and accessible.
You still have to solve the resource issues, 1.4B vehicles on earth today, total lithium production per year is about 100 000 tonnes, even if we only needed 10kg per car that's going to take a bit of time, and that's not even talking about other uses
As in, we run out of fossil fuels (or it gets prohibitively expensive) and your truck becomes brick because its internal battery and electric drivetrain is pretty much useless without the ICE part.
Solar, wind and thermal are practically unlimited for duration of the planet's existence.
Why not ?
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...
Trucks apparently are only about 25% of US emissions. Using hybrid would remove emissions from city centers (where your lungs are the recycling filters)
Freight is one of the only use case that requires long range, private cars are used something like 40km per day on average.
Having an electric drive train increases reliability, and having a diesel engine running at peak efficiency 24/7 will be much more reliable than a regular engine, especially given the abuse they take from trucks. (+ not as much stress on the batteries vs quick charge)
> The time and money being spent on developing hybrid technology could be better spent on making fully electric vehicles more affordable and accessible.
You still have to solve the resource issues, 1.4B vehicles on earth today, total lithium production per year is about 100 000 tonnes, even if we only needed 10kg per car that's going to take a bit of time, and that's not even talking about other uses