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Originally Posted by cockerpunk

no, i said hybrid technology is not new, its 25 years old

true.

therefore, we know how to work on it.

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"therefore, some people know how to work on it."
there may be thousands of folks that know how to work on it, but for anyone that has never worked on it before, there's likely to be a learning curve. On top of that, the entire group of semi-mechanics are probably not all going to be able to go to the "how to work on a hybrid semi" class before those monsters hit the road, and possibly even not within the first year or two that they are on the road, so that means that probably a sizeable portion of the semi-mechanics aren't going to be able to work on them from day one.

its not new technology. that means 1. we know how to engineer it to be reliable, and 2. we know how to train people to work on it.

reasonable assumptions that may or may not be true. The theory behind hybrid technology probably doesn't change much from application to application, but it's entirely possible that the implementation in a semi could be substantially different from the implementation in a prius or Cayenne hybrid as the application is very different. But maybe it's exactly the same other than being bigger.

Not only are not all of the mechanics going to be trained before these beasts hit the road, but my guess is there's not going to be a mad rush for every semi mechanic to get into that training on day one if it's just one, new, expensive rig that's got the technology.

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