Comment on Own Goal: Middle East war to hit oil price, so gas price, so electricity price
vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Silver linings, but hopefully this pushes us further away from fossil fuel dependence and toward renewable energy, EVs, and public transport. The previous oil crises had people downsize from their absurdly large cars too.
notgold@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Are electric tractors a thing yet?
zurohki@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Looks like only smaller ones so far. John Deere are launching some in 2026.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
new holland have done some insane shit, they did a hydrogen powered one
zurohki@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ugh, hydrogen.
Hydrogen vehicles are the magical combination of expensive to buy and expensive to run. They just get mothballed when trials are over and the funding runs out making the whole thing a waste of time and money.
Battery electric vehicles are cheap to run so they get used for whatever workload they can do, even if they can’t do the most demanding jobs yet. BEV bus can’t do the longest route all day? Put it on a shorter one. It’ll get used for something.