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Anti-Electrification Trucking Lobby Buys Consulting Study That Finds EV Trucking Expensive

27 Mar 2024 | Abstracted from CleanTechnica

"...there's almost nothing in this report that stands up to scrutiny...full of deep degrees of nonsense and designed to make only the customer happy...one of its executives went before Congress and said an awful lot of things which didn't bear the slightest resemblance to reality.

"The US trucking industry's owners really just want to keep burning diesel and don’t want to be forced to spend money on new trucks or slight operational changes."

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