{"id":7856,"date":"2025-10-25T04:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/heavier-electric-trucks-could-strain-new-york-citys-roads-and-bridges-study-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T04:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T04:02:27","slug":"heavier-electric-trucks-could-strain-new-york-citys-roads-and-bridges-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/heavier-electric-trucks-could-strain-new-york-citys-roads-and-bridges-study-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavier electric trucks could strain New York City&#8217;s roads and bridges, study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Heavier electric trucks could strain New York City&#8217;s roads and bridges, study warns<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>New York City&#8217;s roads and bridges already incur millions in annual damage from oversized trucks, and a new study warns the shift to electric freight could intensify that burden. As electric trucks replace diesel models, their heavier batteries could increase the city&#8217;s yearly repair costs by up to nearly 12% by 2050.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-10-heavier-electric-trucks-strain-york.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavier electric trucks could strain New York City&#8217;s roads and bridges, study warns New York City&#8217;s roads and bridges already incur millions in annual damage from oversized trucks, and a new study warns the shift to electric freight could intensify that burden. As electric trucks replace diesel models, their heavier batteries could increase the city&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}