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.

  • @Madison420
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    41 year ago

    Fueling is also much less volatile and you can gain that electricity with cleaner means and cheaper fuels, ideally nuclear.

    • NotMyOldRedditName
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      1 year ago

      If they had to do an emergency airlift supply drop, I wonder if they’d prefer dropping a massive battery vs a pile of gasoline. Although the battery would be more expensive I guess. Like airdrop a Tesla Megapack.

      Also that’d be bad if a enemy overran them and then took that asset, so probably bad idea heh

      • @Madison420
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        11 year ago

        Battery, proprietary design means they can’t use your supplies easily.