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by IB885588 2861 days ago
The first place to phase it out of is densely populated areas, because of all the particulate matter pollution which is particularly bad for people's health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5352477/

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Friends comment is people constantly complain about maintenance trucks, because they have to run the diesel engine to power hydraulics.
Thats one beauty of a proper electric truck: you can operate all the power equipment off the electric.
Here we go again, putting people ahead of mother earth.

/s