dubious Oregon diesel sales ban challenged

[Joel Ashley]

https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/boshartdavis/Documents/Rep.%20Shelly%20Boshart%20Davis%20Calls%20on%20EQC%20to%20Delay%20Truck%20and%20RV%20Ban.pdf

[Steve Huber Co-Admin]

All,
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Thx, Steve

[Eric Maclean Co-Admin]

For those of you that have been following this is nothing new .
The California emissions people have been pushing to eliminate diesel in their state ( and others by default) for years now.
The politics behind it is to push towards an all electric so called zero emissions fleet by slowly vetting out the alternatives.
And of course as all things politicians do they are out of touch with reality .
In reality that so called zero mission automobile or truck has to be charged by an external electrical source from the grid which in most areas can barely support its current demands. Then we could talk about how or where this electricity is produced and just how clean it is.
If you think your electric bill is high now wait till the grid has to be expanded to charge all these vehicles and of course watch the price go up as you electric bill starts to represent auto fuel.
As people realize the shortcomings of electric vehicle the demand will wain and as we've already seen in the automotive manufacturing is backing away from the heavy ramp up that they were developing towards electric in favor of hybrid systems simply because the market has fallen off as the true economics and convenience start to become apparent.
As is the case at this time there is no company willing to step forward and build an all electric motorhome chassis capable enough to replace a diesel pusher
That's not to say that someday the whole electric thing won't work but for now the alternative is not viable for the RV market as there are no electric chassis manufactured at this time.
It does lend itself to some interesting ideas though as with an electric or even hybrid system you could power the entire motor homes house electric system with the battery bank and eliminate the Gen set on hybrid models.

I think what you will see happen is the legislators with ease the requirement for RVs until such a time that the manufacturers can produce a viable electric chassis.

For now we have to hope that common sense wins out.

Eric