Amazon, FedEx and UPS are just some of the major companies starting to switch to electric vehicles for deliveries and trucking. NBC News’ Tom Costello reports on why these businesses are going green.
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100 Tesla semis to Pepsi
Watch the Adam Something channel, to get the real truth about them. Another Musk scam.
Do the electric simis have automatic transmissions ?
These batteries will cause damage
@apl175 This is the proper answer. Yes, it has gears. No, not in a traditional 6-speed shifting sense.
@Htate sil There will be no choice in about 10 years. Keep being a human dinosaur.
@Htate sil Gas/diesel vehicles catch on fire too. You aren’t saying anyrhing sensible.
@Yvonne Plant 😂😂😂😂 u sound like a biden supporter how are people going to get their car charged smfh
It’s about time. Yea Rivian!
Yeah u will be spending a fortune at the dealer lol
👆 Cry.
no more diesel fumes, no more chatter of the jake brakes
STOP BUYING THEM DONT MAKE THEM RICHIER
*looks at the comment above*
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OK Vlad.
Democrats and green energy will end when trump24 wins u will not be having China dig holes in Africa
Electric cars are not reliable. Gadgety crap made in China.
Yay electricity prices will go up just like diesel prices smh
Actually, the more we switch to green energy production and electric appliances, heaters and cars the lower the price should go for electricity. You saw the one beer delivery company charges its truck from solar! Why because its the cheapest and most effective way for them to!
I hope you’re kidding, electricity prices have been climbing year over year and this will add more strain to grids which will require more infrastructure, which costs money, which will be passed to the consumer. The sun doesn’t shine year round, especially in the places that are quoted in this. Do some outside research on how the batteries are made and disposed of while you’re at it too!
@Maximus The French Bulldog I am not kidding! I personally live on solar! I haven’t paid an electricity bill in over 6 years. Between the initial investment and maintenance spread out over 6 years its cost me maybe 25 dollars a month. I am getting ready to add more capacity by summer and I will be at far lower cost than being on the kid! I did all the work and wiring myself. So I saved a bunch on that. With power running right in front of my property it would have cost me more than 3,000 to hook up to it. I put that money into solar equipment and golf cart batteries! Best thing I ever did!
Hmm, I see your point on an individual consumer level. I’m skeptical about this on a business level and that it won’t impact electric prices in the long term. As soon as the government subsidies are over. The money has to come from somewhere and it will be from taxing us and charging us more money. None the less thanks for sharing I really hope your are right and I can eat my words in the future!
@Maximus The French Bulldog The beer company is charging its trucks off solar. If you are a homeowner in the right location and somewhat electric systems knowledgeable you can save a bundle with solar. I got no rebates when I did mine. I just saved the 3000 it would have cost me to grid tie. I also don’t get a monthly electric bill. You don’t have to hook it into the grid to use solar as a second electric system to cut your electric bill. To me anyone that puts in solar just to run it into the grid is stupid, It will cut your bill but having battery storage and being able to use the power 24/7 really cuts to eliminates the electric bill.
Say what you want about Elon Musk, but he lit the beacon & inspired people to go EV. Now companies are going past him in twice the speed.
As long as Tesla is around, the industry will continue to grow. Competition will be fierce & it will later be the norm. I give it about 5 years average for people to finally understand it.
While tesla quality isnt the best, you can argue that if it wasnt for tesla, we probably wouldnt be having as many EV’s coming out on the market as we do now. Tesla walked, so that others can run.
Heck, in 2019 if you wanted an EV, you had the choice of a tesla, bolt, or leaf. Now? You have 10+ options to chose from!
Interesting test of the electric vehicles. Will they share their maintenance and troubleshooting information?
Tesla won’t.
What about the risk of electrical fires.
What about the risk of fire with a gasoline engine?
What about them? Those are Tesla problems.
You live in a dwelling where you are probably not thinking about electrical fires, right.
I recommend you look up the facts regarding cars catching fires. According to a study, “electric cars are in fact the least likely to catch fire. 25.1 out of every 100,000 electric vehicles sold caught fire. For the same number of combustion engine cars, 1,529.9 caught fire.”
B.S. THEY ARE NOT POWERED BY THE SUN. COAL PLANTS AND NUKE PLANTS CHARGE THEM!
THEY HAVE TO DIG UP TONS OF RARE METAILS TO MAKE BATTERIES!
Worry about the DRAFT!
@Lisa M NO not cobalt, etc…. Those are called rare earth metals and there is a LOT of pollution!
@Guy FawkesU Cobalt is used in more than just Lithium Batteries!
So it creates jobs too? That’s awesome!
Yet you arent concerned about the metals used in smartphone batteries?? Nearly everyone has one.
Thank you – can we get away from this talk of ‘Oil Prices’? What about spending that stupid amount of money that you are basically lighting on fire every day, on something productive – like these companies are doing? Shove the talk of ‘Oil Prices’ up your Republican Representative’s -you know what- … buy electric.
The truck driver is the best spokesman for electric vehicles.
Lol yep🎉
Wait for the MAGATS to refuse their packages! “I ain’t takin’ no packidge from no woke truuck”.
I saw a story on motorweek were a trash truck ran on poop! Lol
Yea switch to electric so some rednecks can shut down production with just a few grams of lead
Install solar and get free power. Electric vehicle just make solar even more worthy of investment.
@New Moon tell that to the thousands without power in North Carolina
@Xiah Araa Solar wouldnt help with that either. Its not their fault that Proud boys decided to shoot up the grid in NC. Because of others mischief, you have to suffer.
How does this help anybody?
Pay close attention to Ford, especially their dealers.
Costs a *lot less* to run, so they’re saving a ton of money by using them. Less maintenance too. Really a no brainer for fleets.
For everyday commuters like myself, *the price simply needs to come down* and the range/speed of charging needs to be improved, some offer 10 minute fast charging already.
Tesla is the worst brand of electric to get, go with a mainstream vehicle manufacturer like GM/Ford or a European brand.
All the major car manufacturers are committed to EVs. So the prices will likely come down.
While tesla quality isnt the best, you can argue that if it wasnt for tesla, we probably wouldnt be having as many EV’s coming out on the market as we do now. Tesla walked, so that others can run.
Heck, in 2019 if you wanted an EV, you had the choice of a tesla, bolt, or leaf. Now? You have 10+ options to chose from!
Solar could collect heat, wind could collect static. Hydro can collect cold. Roman gadgetry is not soulful. Or earthen. Or monumental. Or from god.
To all of the diehard gas car drivers. It’s almost all over. When motor vehicles took over from horses during the 1910s it took about a decade. Look at photos from those times. You can see the change almost in real time.
It’s not over till the technology and the costs get much better. It wouldn’t be as far as it is except for government interference.
@E Randcoit’s over bud . No doubt at this point
Have you all seen the Twitter files yet they’re starting to get really good grab some popcorn and check it out
Huh?
Until the power grid shuts off then no one’s going to get any packages
You must have missed their own solar grid in the video which they use to charge their fleet up.
Did saw they charge with solar panels? Are you stupid?
Good
😍😍😍😍
A good step
What means to be done is more R&D into making batteries smaller and more powerful
RIP auto industry
Obiden did that.
Wait until next summer in California and we are told not to charge our cars… Let’s see how these companies feel when they can’t make deliveries.
I promise you there will be an exception for businesses.
Buy Mullen stock
Biased reporting. There’s a lot of down sides not reported. And if it was so greats you wouldn’t need government subsidies to get businesses to make that purchase.
I don’t think these companies like Amazon are gonna be around much longer….
Oil prince are crying right now.
🇧🇷PRESIDENT BOLSONARO WE NEED ACTION! PLEASE THIS NATION THAT CRIES IS WAITING FOR HELP…PRISON FOR THE DICTATOR MINISTER MORAES ALEXANDER .. THE WORLD IS WATCHING… 🐀LULA IS ROBBER NOT PRESIDENT
As some countries begin to outright ban them? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Little late 2023 2010 should’ve been it
Ask the smoker how’s the ev compared to old trucks ….hold my Marlboro toke
Companies realize the cost saving of EVs vs ICE vehicles fleet more companies will make the EV switch or watch their competition that did, become more profitable let’s face facts this is about saving money to make more money
The benefits for going Green and EV is NOT being felt now. not by a long shot, if anything the real TRUTH is that the quest to transition to EV has substantially made carbon polution worst. How? Because people forget about the vast polluting process and manufacturing involved in mining for precious metals and material that not only builds the machines that create the EV parts, but also the power and energy required to produced and manufacture the final EV products. Its an industry atop an already existing oil industry doubling down the effort. So until several generations of the EV industry. So not until we are decades down the road and have shut down much of the oil industry will we still see vast amounts of pollution. in other words, the GREEN you use came to be by very pollution causing methods.