Cummins has already built and released the components for full electric drive, that they will sell the to the OEM's. Test units are being built in conjunction with the OEM's. They created a new division just for that. Seems like they see the writing on the wall. Hybrid setups seem to have disappeared , haven't been too well accepted yet, at least not without big subsidies on them. Eaton shut down the hybrid stuff they had. Seems unlikely that Tesla will ever get it off the ground, investors in Tesla are already getting nervous about them. OEM's like Daimler and Paccar and Navistar will likely release trucks before Tesla actually builds their plant... Tesla is probably toast in that arena. Then governments will have to figure out how not to legislate a whole bunch of people out of work at the current OEM suppliers.
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