Instead of going electric, Ford will be transitioning the Super Duty to hydrogen fuel cellsFord can build a Superduty with equal capabilities to the diesel, the question is whether enough people will pay the much higher price? With battery costs going up a 200KW/Hour battery is going to be $40K and weight 4K pounds, so it'll take an F450 chassis to carry these heavy batteries to do the work of an F350. Then there's the charging hardware, 350KW fast chargers are at least in development but a couple will probably set a fleet back over $100K, especially if the utility needs to upgrade the local grid. So we're easily talking double the price of a gas Super Duty, and fleets won't accept that... Maybe not even if they're forced by governments to buy electrics. That may explain why BNSF railway which normally prefers 1000 mile plus long hauls is investing billions of $$$ in logistics parks in the Bakersfield and Phoenix areas that are within a couple hundred miles of the ports- They're maybe figuring that California will force a lot of truckers out of business?Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:55:53 +0000
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