Several Republican representatives have proposed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act to try to stop the Pentagon’s electrification. The proposals...

Several Republican representatives have proposed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act to try to stop the Pentagon’s electrification. The proposals sound so mind-bogglingly dumb that they look like they were written by 19th-century Luddites or the fossil fuel industry itself.

With the US military operating a fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles, including tactical vehicles, it makes the Pentagon the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world.

The entire transportation industry is currently transitioning to electric propulsion, and the US military knows better than to be left behind.

  • alternative_factor@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is actually the best dystopian news I’ve read in awhile, whenever the military gets serious about a technology they usually throw money into it to make it cheaper and more efficient, which eventually ends up getting in the hands of us civilians. Teslas are still luxury vehicles, it’ll be great if the military makes e-fords or some ungodly thing like that.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Having some military vehicles mixed in the fleet that are electric would probably make things more robust.

    What if the supply lines get cut off and they’re stuck in a part of town in a defensive position.

    They’ll eventually run out of gas, but there may be electricity there, or they may have solar panels as part of their kit.

    All gas has this problem, all EV has a different problem, but a mix could be more resilient.

    • DarkGamer@kbin.socialOP
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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Also, electric vehicles are also much simpler mechanically speaking. They have fewer moving parts that can break relative to a modern gas engine. In-wheel electric motors wouldn’t need a drive train, and would mean more room for other military stuff in vehicles.

  • teft@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Representative Gosar commented on his initiative:

    >The military is no place to experiment with untested technology.

    HAHAHAHAHA. Better tell that to the United States Army Test and Evaluation Command or the Army Futures Command or any of the other branches test and evaluation commands. That Gosar guy is a dipshit.