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Originally Posted by btimbit
What about the transportation industry, is there an electric engine that provides enough torque to haul around the heavy loads that we see these days? Or power heavy construction equipment?
2030 seems a tad too soon to be writing off O&G
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Plans are in the mix for diesel electric engines for heavy trucks(hybrid of sorts) and another is the Nikola(available now). it's a 1000 hp/2000 ft torgue hydrogen-powered turbine that the company claims can go 1200 miles on full tanks for 1/3 of the costs. One feature that caught my eye was it charges the batteries when going down hill instead of wearing out the brakes, brake jobs are a huge cost for truckers. It also can go up hill at 110k loaded ...something diesel powered trucks have serious trouble with.
Like it or not, Stuff like this is the future and is happening.
https://nikolamotor.com/one
Oh! Buy the truck($375k) and get a free 1 million miles worth of Hydrogen cells
