One. Trillion. United States dollars.
That's a lot of money, and apparently that's what it's going to take to electrify the trucking industry, according to a report released a couple weeks ago by the Clean Freight Coalition, an alliance of truck transportation stakeholders whose founding members include the American Trucking Associations and Truckload Carriers Association, among others. Trucking's share of the $1 trillion lift is upwards of $620 billion for chargers, site infrastructure and electric service upgrades. Utilities and government slip by with $370 billion for upgrades to grid networks to meet the surge in demand of commercial vehicles alone.
[Related: EPA announces new strict emissions rule for heavy trucks]
If you tried to fundraise $1 trillion, you would need every living person in the world to donate $128.21.
To make that kind of money, Taylor Swift would have to set off on her record-smashing Eras tour another 961 times.
The $1 trillion price tag to go all battery electric is twice the gross domestic product of the United Arab Emirates, ironically one of the largest oil producing countries on the planet.
For those of us without a twin sibling, Dr. Teghan Lucas, forensic anthropologist at The University of New South Wales and Flinders University, both in Australia, says there is a 1 in a trillion chance that you ever run into another person that looks exactly like you.
