The Diesel Demand Shock Nobody Is Pricing In

The Truck Exception Isn't as Big as You Think When I recently argued that the internal combustion engine may already have passed its peak, many readers responded with a familiar objection. Cars are one thing, they argued, but trucks are different.

Passenger vehicles can be electrified because they drive predictable distances, return home every evening, and increasingly benefit from lower operating costs. Long-haul trucking, by contrast, depends on heavy payloads, long distances, and energy densities that batteries supposedly cannot provide.