Battery-Electric Trucks Hauling Alt. Fuel To The USA!
Breaker, breaker good buddy – we got the smokey on our tail and we’re eastbound & down in our gas-free, “world’s largest battery-electric powered truck” from UK based Smith Electric Vehicles. That’s a 10-4! Get it? It’s trucker lingo.
Smith EV already has their Newton EV Trucks roaming delivery routes in the UK – and will open their first US based plant in Kansas City next year. The Newton can reach a top speed of 50 mph, carries up to 8 tons and can last up to 150 miles on a single charge. The Newton has a turning radius of 14.15 meters, allowing it to make tight squeezes in and around narrow urban street settings.
The Kansas City location was achieved after a $3 million dollar tax incentive for Smith was offered from the state of Missouri. In return, company officials said the new facility would create 200 green collar jobs within three years – we recommend you ‘Shout!’ the green out before washing. Thanks to Gas2.org for the tip!
The Tesla and Apetura electric cars are also here, along with the Chinese BYD, a Chevy “Volt” knock-off that arrived before the GM version – so who is knocking off who here? Now, we need extensive Wind and Solar battery charging sites throughout the land, and maybe even some small scale Hydro, Geothermal, and near the seashores, some wave or Tidal power stations – not massive “Power The Nation” enterprises, just enough at each station to service the rechargeable vehicles that come in ! Hey! What a money-making concept! Invest in a Wind Turbine in a favorable area, charge a couple of batteries, and wait for sales to roll in! I like it! Why in Hell should Americans face huge tax hikes to develop huge industrial size power producers, when what we need is lots of little free-enterprisers, spread along the highways in windy and sunny spots, ready to charge our batteries, feed us a meal while it’s happening, and collect a fair price for services rendered? We are no longer heavy industry manufacturers to the world and we do not need huge, dangerous fissioning fires started all over our land. When the good folk from Chernobyl return to their fields to farm them it will be time for us to look at fission-power again, until then, we can make do with what we’ve got, or invent better methods, like safe fusion. SEE: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319
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