[OneDonOne]

Good for the Chinese. The rest of us do not have the upfront capital to purchase these trucks. And there is still the matter of fertilizer, concrete, bulk chemicals etc. And solar panels. There is a very good reason why solar psnel factories (like JinkoSolar run off coal or hydro and not solar power.

[rickydroll]

That's one of the wonderful things about automotive infrastructure. You can make gradual incremental changes and slowly improve the entire system. It may not be fast enough or cheap enough, but you can still make it happen.

[jemmyw]

> The rest of us do not have the upfront capital to purchase these trucks.

We can afford what we can do. We don't need to do what we can afford. If we wanted to build and deploy electric trucks enmasse like China then we could do it, regardless of upfront capital.

[coffeebeqn]

Right the US lacks capital for tech investment..

[wookmaster]

not sure lacks is the correct word...

[rstuart4133]

> The rest of us do not have the upfront capital to purchase these trucks.

You don't need any upfront capital. Do it when the trucks become due for refurbishment a truck. Then it's almost a no-brainier, as its cheaper convert it to an EV: https://www.januselectric.com.au/

[AnthonyMouse]

> The rest of us do not have the upfront capital to purchase these trucks.

Isn't this the purpose of a loan? You have a truck with a higher purchase price that adds ~$2000/month to your loan payment but then you save ~$3000/month in diesel.

And you're saving a lot more than that in diesel when it's $5/gallon.