Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Gas shortages, you say? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 months ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Eh, it will still affect you somewhat, just less directly.

You can still go to the grocery store just fine ... but the truck that brought deliveries to the grocery store so you could buy them? It ran on diesel. As did the truck that delivered the food from the packing plant to the distribution center. As did the truck that delivered the food from the farm to the packing plant. As did all the tractors and other heavy equipment used on that farm. And if they all have to pay more for fuel, your groceries are going to get more expensive. If shortages get so bad that they can't even get fuel, then you might be seeing a lot of empty shelves at the grocery store.

It's nice to have personal independence from fossil fuels, but it's an unfortunate fact that our society and economy as a whole are still very dependent upon fossil fuels.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

and then they should be saying, can we get electric trucks so we can avoid this? and the answer is:

The result is a growing array of models available today, from last-mile city trucks to powerful heavy-duty prime movers.

https://www.trucksales.com.au/editorial/details/electric-truck-guide-whats-available-in-australia-150315/

Volvo receives order for 30 electric trucks in Australia and announces production start of electric trucks

https://www.volvotrucks.com/en-en/news-stories/press-releases/2025/may/volvo-receives-order-for-30-electric-trucks-in-australia-and-ann.html

looks like a yes to me

[–] Micromot@piefed.social 13 points 4 months ago

And the big routes are and can mostly be done by rail, which is very efficient and can be electrified easier than trucks

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Don't forget. Solar and batteries are the cheapest way to make energy.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Rally brings the point home just how precarious it is to be so strongly dependent on fossil fuels

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

It's better to own the libs than to have resource security, though.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, but the economies of scale of cargo transport generally mean that the percentage of the total cost attributable to fuel cost is usually pretty small.

Take bananas, for example. If they cost $0.70 per pound at the store, how much fuel could have been used getting a pound of bananas from the plantation to the port, shipped from that port to a port in the United States, then from that port to a distribution center, then to the store? So what would doubling the price of fuel do for the price of bananas?

With more expensive items, shipping (and therefore fuel) is an even lower percentage of the total input costs.

The price of goods will go up with the price of fuel, but not as much as a lot of people seem to assume.