Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
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Mike Kucharski, co-owner of JKC Trucking in Chicago, said the heavy-duty mandate would be crippling to many truck companies. “About 95 percent of trucking companies are small businesses operating 10 or fewer trucks, so complying with these mandates would push many carriers out of business,” he said, adding that fully electrifying the U.S. trucking fleet would require a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure investment.
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Just the thought of a lithium battery powered truck full of gasoline being in any mishap where batteries ignite should scare the hell out of everyone.
There are no electric trucks capable of hauling 45k pounds 500 miles without refueling. Any performance less than this would result in more trucks to move equal amount of goods. More everything, complete boondoggle. Hard to believe this would even be considered good policy. Maybe in 50 years.
Tesla has a long haul semi that can go 500 miles while hauling 80K according to Elon
The legal max.weight for total unit is 80k lbs. Elon may claim anything though.
That rule is just insane, we simply have no-where close to the electrical resources and the environmental disaster from batteries would become superfund site.