City Seeking 2nd Electric Garbage Truck

I guess New Haven will never change, always focused on "exciting" rather than effective or functional.

How about we stop wish-cycling or clean the trash from the streets instead of following the latest dead end unproven technology in attempt to pat ourselves on the back? Is this California now? The homeless are set up everywhere and we're focused on an electric fleet of vehicles in 6 years! With what infrastructure? Where's the logistical plan? Are electric rates decreasing? Is anyone with common sense involved in any facet of this city's operation or are we all mildly educated buffoons' puffing our chests with green-washed pride?

So we use electric trucks to collect locally. Then we burn diesel so we can bury trash in someone else's backyard, in another state.

Something this dumb could only happen in an election year.

This is a good step forward. Along with the environmental benefits, these trucks are quieter and promise lower total cost or ownership. EVs are not right for all uses, but trash trucks appear to be a good fit. See what Mack Trucks, which has bern testing these vehicles since 2020, says about this at https://chargedevs.com/features/the-lowly-refuse-truck-offers-the-perfect-use-case-for-electrification/

HewNaven, landfilling solid waste has real problems, including the transportation air pollution you mention.

But even if we do a far better job of reusing and recycling, as we should, we still need to move stuff from Point A to Point B. I can not melt aluminum cans for re-use in my kitchen oven. Shifting to electric vehicles reduces the environmental impact of solid waste management.

Around the country, the agencies that have purchased electric vehicles are already mothballing them due to various maintenance issues like lack of spare parts and battery reliability. New Haven then decides that a known lemon is a good fit for a fleet that it can barely keep on the road with the technology of the vehicles they have.

I'm not in any way against the environmental savings that electrical vehicles are purported to have, I just think that they do not really have that impact. They still rely on fossil fuels for electrical power, just that it's generated elsewhere. And then you have an environmentally disastrous battery to dispose of (that was most likely imported from China). We need to wait until there is a hydrogen engine with zero harmful emissions.

Thus City is comical. Lets reduce emissions because a truck driving around your neighborhood once a week is bad, but bringing in jets is a good thing and doesnt pollute.