bildung.social ist einer von vielen unabhängigen Mastodon-Servern, mit dem du dich im Fediverse beteiligen kannst.
Bildung unter den Bedingungen der digitalen Transformation.

Verwaltet von:

Serverstatistik:

837
aktive Profile

#trucking

0 Beiträge0 Beteiligte0 Beiträge heute

Truckers and tariffs: Atlantic Canadian drivers could face ‘devastating’ impacts
As Canada braces for potential U.S. tariffs, the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association is raising concerns about how this could impact an already struggling industry.
#trade #tariffs #economy #trucking #Canada #donaldtrumptariffs
globalnews.ca/news/11050433/at

Antwortete im Thread

@CelloMomOnCars @falcennial @pixelpusher220 Shure, the overhead of a #FuelCell will not.make.it.practical in a #Smartphone for the foreseeable future, and #SodiumWetcells are slowly entrenching #LiFePO4 cells territory.

I do however expect that for #EnvoirmentalProtection alone, we'll see #Lithium cells being slowly phased out in a few decades like #NiCd, #mercury and #lead before them.

  • The only reason #LeadAcid wetcells are still used as #CarBattery is because they are disgustingly cheap and can provide high amperages for starter motors. Their weight inefficiency is not of big concern in cars.

Likewise I'm confident we see first #LiFePO4 then #SodiumWetcells then #FuelCells take over.

In fact I'm confident #MethanolFuelcell will be used as drop-in replacement for (diesel-)electric buses simply because of scalability and fire safety alone.

  • OFC the superior solution for regular bus lines are trolley buses, but being able to refuel on long-distance trips will certainly help conversion with long-haul bus services and #trucking beyond the "last-mile stop & go" delivery where drivers have their 8hr shifts and trucks can "slow-charge" at the depot at night.

In fact, #DeutschePost literally bought up an #electric #MiniTrick #startup just to get the "#CityScooter" #BEV|s made for them, and for couriers that only do stop & go these work fine.

Range Energy is building #trailers to help cut #climate #emissions from heavy-duty #trucking. Semi-trucks move over 11B tons of #freight in US each year, spewing #greenhousegas #emissions along highways. Shifting heavy-duty trucks to 0 emissions technologies will be a challenge—even more so than for smaller vehicles, since larger vehicles require bigger batteries and more powerful chargers. One company thinks the key to progress is hiding behind rigs inside its trailers.technologyreview.com/2024/07/2

MIT Technology Review · How battery-powered trailers could transform truckingVon Casey Crownhart
Fortgeführter Thread

I have a solution. I just ordered a new 2TB SSD to be delivered tomorrow at an Amazon drop box in Cheyenne, WY. When I get it, I'll restore my laptop to the factory Windows install, then re-install Fedora as a dual boot. This laptop has a 500GB SSD, so I may split that between Windows and Linux and use the new SSD as a home partition, or I may install Linux on the new SSD. I don't know yet.

But picking up a package at a random location along my route will be new for me. 😄

"To long-haul or not to long-haul was a frequent topic of conversation on the pad, largely due to the money and the allure of the open road. But even long-haul trucking is not what it used to be."

For Harper's, Emily Gogolak visits a trucker training school in Texas: harpers.org/archive/2024/02/lo

Harper's MagazineLost Highway, by Emily GogolakThe trials of trucking school