New York City is scrapping its brilliant idea for electric garbage trucks after finding out the truck simply "aren't powerful enough to plow snow".
- The pipe dream of converting 6,000 garbage trucks from gas to electric in order to try and limit carbon emissions is "clashing with the limits of electric-powered vehicles."
- Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch told the NYC city council earlier this month: "We found that they could not plow the snow effectively."
New York City has committed to plowing each street and doing so by putting the city's 2,100 trucks to work to clear the "equivalent of 19,000 miles of street lanes".
- Many other cities don't use their garbage trucks to plow snow.
- Denver has their own committed light duty trucks outfitted with plows.
Sanitation workers are skeptical
- Harry Nespoli, the president of Teamsters Local 831 union representing sanitation workers, isn't sold
- How much power do they have? Can they run 12-hour shifts without a charge? I don't know."
- Sanitation spokesperson Vincent Gragnani concluded by saying that full electrification isn't possible right now.
https://www.technocracy.news/bust-nyc-electric-garbage-trucks-lasted-only-4-hours-in-cold/
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