For a commuter car, a plug-in hybrid is great if its all-electric range fits within your commute distance. Otherwise it's just a more expensive hybrid. For a s

For a commuter car, a plug-in hybrid is great if its all-electric range fits within your commute distance. Otherwise it's just a more expensive hybrid. For a snow plow that needs to run for hours at a time, I suspect that the additional cost of the batteries of a plug-in hybrid isn't worth it over a normal hybrid, or just a diesel-powered engine. We don't need to electrify everything, and even if that will happen in the long run, we don't need to rush to do it now. What percentage of total NYC emissions come from these trucks? Probably a pretty small portion. It's not politically correct for NYC to buy more diesel trucks, but it is probably what they should do.