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I've known of a few super-users.

They will generally choose diesel over gasoline, but with the complexity of diesels these days it really isn't worth it for most. Many of them are doing timely deliveries of parts, supplies, using pickup trucks and trailers. 100,000 miles a year is common as it is their jobs / businesses.

Tree huggers are smoking the devil's lettuce if they think that asking those folks to wait for charging stations to keep charging their trucks will work, and at the moment - despite what I believe could have happened already - hybrid 3/4 ton and 1-ton trucks still aren't a thing. They could have been a thing if American vehicle companies were Toyota, but most of the world's small-vehicle manufacturers all fought hybrids tooth and nail until the modern era.

Likewise, I really believe that many big trucks, 80,000 pounds, could benefit from being hybrids, but the truck engineers just aren't as sharp as car engineers. Also the companies who hire truck engineers are super-against spending the money to research and develop hybrid regenerative braking (which big trucks would excel at), and against developing an engine system that would need fewer replacement parts (this goes for brake shoes as well) as they sell a lot of parts to the truck owners.

To my knowledge, it is either Cummins or Allison creating a hybrid system for at least medium-duty diesel trucks. Powering trucks is their core business, so they see the writing on the wall (less need for diesel engines or transmissions that work behind those engines) and are trying to be the system chosen since each individual manufacturer doesn't want to do it on their own.

Then there's Hylion, a company I hope will bring good things to the Class 8 trucking world - if the big boys allow them to. https://www.hyliion.com/

 

Talking about diesels, what happened to all the TDI that VW bought back?

Bob Wilson

 

Fixed and sold.

 

In ≠ Out
A few still managed to be squeaked into being “totaled out” which drives one’s imagination.

 

Didn't think they all got resold. Just didn't find any sources giving a break down of the lot's fate. Some, because of mileage, age, or condition, may have been deemed unviable in terms of recouping the fix's cost. Then the dealers buying them at auction where on the hook to pay for the repairs from the cars sitting on a lot for two years; that meant new tires and even brakes. Some attrition will take place from that. There is also the ones the owners decided to keep.

I understood why VW wasn't allowed to export the cars to countries with laxer emission laws. It did lead to the waste of resources going into nearly new cars though.