Want increased MPG?

[f0xx]

That's just a silly statement. The internal combustion engine will forever be known as one of our greatest engineering feats and is essentially the basis for modern civilization.

Perhaps I didn't express well what I meant. It was a great discovery indeed, for its time. The failure is for nowadays corporation who refuse to let go of their easy profit blocking all innovation.

The internal combustion engine is basically the same now, many years after it's discovery, with some minor improvements here and there.

[Kyzarius]

On top of all of this, we have to realize we are only talking about passenger vehicles. If we really want to get crazy, we could discuss the trucking industry and all of the inadequacies, inefficiencies, and expense that all-electric motors would bring to the table. If you think milk is getting expensive now, just wait for some dumb politician to mention the idea of mandating the trucking industry convert to electricity, all in exchange for a few poll points.

I provide the IT support for my buisness (mine as in I own it), but this is just a part of my job description. I also manage the traffic (supply chain logistics) for some rather large companies(GPC, Acuity Brand products, as exapmles goggle them).

I routed over 500 million pounds of freight last year. (we celebrated the 1/2 billion mark, was awesome)

I participated in the data cost analysis of using Electric tractors vs gas in some key lanes in the midwest. I was personally responsible for comparing the fuel and operating costs for our private fleet.

I found a ~20% reduction in cost per CWT (hundred pounds) of freight when using electric tractors vs using conventional tractors. This was at the LTL lvl, at the TL level the reduction is roughly ~40%.

I am not getting this from some article, I actually did this research on live data with real people as part of a team focused on reducing supply chain costs.

My estimate is by 2020, we will see Electric tractors out number Diesel. Not only are diesel tractors more expensive to fuel, but they are suprisingly more expensive to maintain, break down more often, and of course pollute like crazy.

Your ideas, Inscribed, are not seated in reality.