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For truckers driving EVs, there’s no going back
Electric trucks still make up only a tiny fraction of trucks on the road in the United States.
“Everyone who has had an EV has no aspirations to go back to diesel at this point,” said Khari Burton, who drives an electric Volvo VNR in the Los Angeles area for transport company IMC. Mike Roeth, the executive director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, said many drivers have reported that the new vehicles are easier on their bodies — thanks to both less rocking off the cab, assisted steering and the quiet motor. “We’re building from areas that have a fairly defined route,” said Jason Mathers, associate vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund’s zero-emissions truck initiative.
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