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Originally Posted by sheepdog 44
Yes. If governments really wanted to ease our dependence on oil, we would be directing all our efforts at Tractor trailers, not hybrid passenger vehicles.
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Not really, because there's not all that much to gain there, since a long-haul truck spends long hours at steady highway cruise, and (unlike most passenger vehicles) is not massively over-powered for that cruise mode. But if you keep up with news, you'll see quite a bit being done for stop & go applications, like UPS delivery trucks, garbage trucks, &c.
Also Hitachi has had a hybrid shovel out for a few years, Cat is making a quasi-hybrid dozer...