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So in good news it looks like recent changes are fixing this! https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/final-rule-and-related-materials-co
by blamestross 4y ago
So in good news it looks like recent changes are fixing this! https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/final-rule-and-related-materials-control-air-pollution https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engin...
https://toddofmischief.blogspot.com/2022/05/why-are-trucks-getting-bigger.html?m=1 https://toddofmischief.blogspot.com/2022/05/why-are-trucks-g... is a reference to the old problem.
Basically "heavy duty" trucks were unregulated but "medium duty" is.
> Solving the engineering problems required to do this will be the real issue, not writing different regulations.
Why would they bother until somebody incentives them to do that? That requires new regulations.
- robertlagrant 4y ago> Why would they bother until somebody incentives them to do that? That requires new regulations. Well, people have been trying to make electric semis for years now because they will be better. Regulations are the last-ditch and worst incentive. But even when they are useful, they don't do anything. That's what I get a bee in my bonnet about. They shouldn't be credited with improvements. The improvements come from people with money risking it in R&D, and R&D folk being smart enough to invent a good solution, and manufacturing and supply chain and ops folks being skilled and dedicated enough to scale and roll out the solution. Writing some regulations is orders of magnitude easier than any of those.
- blamestross 4y agoNecessary != Sufficient. Agreed. Without regulation, we don't have any way of handling emissions externalities other than public shame, and that is a really inconsistent to try way to save a world.
- robertlagrant 4y agoFor some things. In this case we have fuel price as the main reason things are already as good as they are.