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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I've been saying that EVs should have started with things like school buses and garbage trucks. Insane that garbage companies would run big noisy machines that require extensive maintenance and waste a ton of energy constantly stopping when they could have been EV.
Wish I had vehicle engineering experience so I could build a garbage truck company.
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The City of Denton,Texas,went to hydraulic-hybrid garbage trucks,and it pushed efficiency from,1.3-mpg,to 1.6-mpg.
The Denton School District uses propane-powered school buses,which,when the in-tank fuel pump goes out,are just vented off,(Nearly the most potent greenhouse gases)and no-doubt a federal crime if I was caught doing it.
I suspect that the energy efficiency of electric regeneration,vs hydraulic would be at least an order of magnitude.
And if you'll GOOGLE 'fatal school bus rollover accidents',you'll get an idea of the superiority of an EV layout.Manslaughter-by-incompetence.