The Army wants a ‘Heavy’ Infantry Squad Vehicle to use as a battery on wheels National Guard units are now adopting the once-troubled truck, just as the Army is beginning to look for an electric "heavy" version.

 The cost of this is quite frankly insane.

The Army wants a ‘Heavy’ Infantry Squad Vehicle to use as a battery on wheels

National Guard units are now adopting the once-troubled truck, just as the Army is beginning to look for an electric "heavy" version.

Wyoming Leaders To Talk Self-Driving Vehicle Program With Tesla

 

Wyoming Leaders To Talk Self-Driving Vehicle Program With Tesla

International Scouts are back.

 Scout

Hating on EVs.

Oh my, they're here:

An earlier thread here:

The Work Truck Blog: Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combus...: 

Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combustion Engines, Enough With EV Nonsense

Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combustion Engines, Enough With EV Nonsense

There is a real holding back the tide aspect to this.  Electric vehicles are coming, and soon.

Indeed, they aren't really new.

Something is really up with the GOP hating on EV's. It's really bizarre.  And it's not just Wyoming.  Consider that Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska, who was on a tear the other day, posting tweet after tweet about electric vehicles.

California insists it's “speculative” to assume EVs will remain heavier than gas cars.

 

Public policy should reflect reality, not the baseless future dream of featherweight electric cars.

What’s speculative, obviously, is assuming with no evidence that their weight will change.

Heavy? Great. We used to complain that fuel efficient vehicles were too light.

To read the GOP propaganda in some quarters, Electric Vehicles travel in rogue bands, cross the Rhine, sack and loot villages, and take your daughters.

It's really absurd. 

All this comes about due to a Biden Administration proposed fuel efficiency mandate designed to spur on the development of EVs.  This is similar to what was done in the 70s and 80s concerning mileage standards, which some people also howled about.  And it's similar to what was done regarding water efficiency and electric efficiency in appliances since the 1970s.  In each instance, there were complainers who howled it was Federal overreach and the standard could't be met.  In each instance, however, industry had little trouble meeting it.

The truth of the matter is that EVs are now here, and there's a real holding back the tide aspect of this.  They're going to dominate in the near future, and each and every one of the supposed reasons that won't happen will be proven wrong, as will the common assertions it won't matter.

Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combustion Engines, Enough With EV Nonsense

There is a real holding back the tide aspect to this.  Electric vehicles are coming, and soon.

Indeed, they aren't really new.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, February 23, 1924. Electric Trucks.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, February 23, 1924. Electric Trucks.: 

Saturday, February 23, 1924. Electric Trucks.

The Saturday magazines hit the stands, including this issue of Colliers:

The issue had some good articles on it, including one that would still be considered timely.

Politics and oil were a topic.

On oil, the issue had an Autocar Truck advertisement advertising gas and electric trucks. . . the latter being something that locals now insist just can't happen.

And Colt had an advertisement on handguns in a national magazine, something that wouldn't happen now.  While the government is referenced, it's really home protection, a theme we still see, that is being suggested.

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics. The times more or less loc...

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics. The times more or less loc...:  

Subsidiarity Economics. The times more or less locally, Part XV. The 2% solution?

August 12, 2023

The EPA estimates that by 2055 most petroleum fueled vehicles will have attrited off the road.

AM Radio To Go.

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May 13, 2023

Ford Motors will no longer put AM radio in its vehicles.  Any of them.  Many other manufacturers are pulling theirs from electric vehicles.

Seems odd to say that I've owned three vehicles, two of them types of trucks, which had no radios at all, unless I put them in.  The first was a Willys 1958 M38A1, the second a 1962 Dodge W300, the third a 1946 Jeep CJ2A. 

The 58 M38A1 had a radio installed in it from some other vehicle.  The first vehicle I owned, I can't really recall how it was installed now.  I put a radio in the 62 Dodge.  I never did put one in the 46 CJ2A.