NOW I WILL FINALLY SAY WHY VIIC WAS DESTINED TO FAIL.
The technology VIIC employs is H2 fuel cells, Batteries, and a custom computer to regulate the power provided by each depending on its use situation (long haul, long idle as in ports, or a mix) known as a profile.
The savings when compared to diesel gas are negligible in practical use situations. This is without considering the jacked up price of converting such a truck.
THE ENGINEERING WAS NOT ECONOMICAL ENOUGH TO JUSIFY ITS COST.
I read many papers that put out hard numbers and one that was specifically about VIIC Tyrano.
This is why orders never materialized.
But what about the TTSI requests!! you say? What about it is that they had a vested interest because they owned stock, not the company, but the owner, and as we all should know it is not insider trading trading if you are outside the company even when your actions affect the involved co. See Carl Icahn with Mickelson and that other guy, just to name a single case.
Simply put the reason these requests (note they were NOT ORDERS) were made were for a lucky group to profit massively. And the way this has traded, seriously massive.
I feel for those who have lost big.
Now you should see flipping in a totally different light.
If you don't then this will happen to you again, and again, and again. Until one day you stop trading, or hopefully, the light turns on and you realize how you trade any and every stinky pinky, and profit like me and many others ;)
And YES I am an engineer, Aerospace baby ;)
