PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: invflatspin on July 19, 2018, 05:07:26 PM
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/epa-chief-faces-first-major-190350852.html
I have a buddy who works at Peterbilt. Even he's against these glider truck chassis things. They are good money for the companies that do them, but the pollution numbers on the old tech is just horrific. Couple this with the significant increase in OTR miles due to individual online shopping and it's tough to justify.
Yes, I know the market will solve the problem eventually. But - right now today there are some retrofits that can reduce the particulate and NOX output of those engines, while not getting them up to current standards. In this one case, I think the added cost of retrofitting the engines, or limiting the sale is the right thing to do, even at the higher cost.
My defense is that I lived through the SoCal smog days of late 60s through 70s. I saw the very real, and very good improvements from the car pollution controls, as much as they annoyed me from a perf and cost standpoint.
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I think anyone who has seen LA with and without smog is for every form of pollution control that exists, at least in that region. Walking outside one morning after a rain storm and seeing the mountains, then watching them disappear again by lunch time sold me on electric cars long before Elon Musk got into it.
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New news. I may have been mislead, and followed some skewed conclusions based on faulty data:
https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/18/emails-suggest-epa-collusion-lobbyists-trump/
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/05/ig-trump-rollbacks-recycled-trucks/
It may be that the testing done has been manipulated by rogue EPA and Volvo interests. Will keep following this story.