Jeep Wrangler is out with a mild hybrid for MY 2019 that includes a stick shift, so there’s hope.

You said that better than any of the journalists did. Thank you.

Possibly. I guess it’s hard to sell trucks based on things like “in proprietary non-EPA testing, this gets 15MPG highway towing instead of 12MPG”.

The hybrid part’s more of an extra bonus as far as I’m concerned. The bigger deal would be the better brake-specific fuel consumption under extended moderate load. 2-3MPG…

As impressive an engineering feat as this is, I feel like fully electric cars are the ACTUAL future considering they’re already here and pretty great already. Why bother with a combustion engine at all?

Where else are you going to put the airbags when you have a collision due to lack of visibility? Obvious.

Holy Grail Skyactiv-X Engine

That C pillar looks mighty thick. Could they not add a window to it? 

Congratulations Count Dookiebird,

It isn’t a theory.

I am pretty confident hydrogen will remain the smallest element until the end of time. Well at least 99.99% sure. I’m also 99.999% sure hydrogen will remain colorless and odorless.

Hydrogen technology is pretty darn mature. Prices will drop with some improvements here and there and economies of scale, but it’ll still be way more expensive than gas/diesel.

Trucky McTruckface.

Remember, Boaty McBoatface won the popular vote by a landslide.

Natural Gas, via steam reformation. Electrolysis costs 3X more so it is rarely used despite having the most public face.

It makes little sense, the cheapest way to make hydrogen is natural gas, but natural gas is more expensive in Europe and has a lot of political implications. There are better and cheaper alternatives.

Yep, time is money and all that - except when it isn’t. Truckers have to obey fairly stringent limits on time at the wheel with very specific mandated breaks (more so in Europe than here in the US), and trucks are spending time at depots for loading/unloading (or, at a minimum, switching trailers). So there’s a bit of…

I don’t think you can make a ‘per mile’ estimate until you learn about how the next round of emissions regulations (rolling in within 4 years in Europe) are going to affect commercial diesel fleets. In the US, fleet average emissions have already caused increased displacement of mid-class diesel vehicles with LPG, CNG…

Current does generate heat.

It’s important to remember that having a network of road side refueling isn’t that important to large trucking companies. UPS for example has a large fleet of trucks that run on natural gas that refill at their own terminals. Also the tax credits the trucking companies receive for alternative fuels largely makes up…

From my cold, dead hands will you take small but useful semantic differences.