New York Gives Up on Electric Snow Plows: 'Insufficient for the Demands of Winter'

Good news! Apparently, they tried to retrofit electric street sweeper/garbage trucks.

"... Primarily intended to clean streets and remove garbage, one of these Mack trucks had been fitted with a snow plow as part of an experiment. Essanews reports the move has been a failure. The reason was given as a simple lack of power: ..."

New York Gives Up on Electric Snow Plows: 'Insufficient for the Demands of Winter' New York is staying with traditional diesel-powered snow plows after rejecting electric vehicles proposed as a replacement.