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Air was cleaner than usual and birds chirped flying after the rack rate of gasoline traded lower during pandemic-related reductions in vehicular traffic; lungs breathe by diaphragm in thorax. A neighbor may ask his neighbor for a given cup of refined cane sugar when neither has a single gallon of gasoline ready for giving, whether or not the word “borrow” is utilized in the asking. A filling station with mains electricity does not provide a charging station for at least one electric vehicle. The main combustible fuel that expansively pushes a roadworthy modern car is neither wheat foam nor barreling oak when it works as engineered. It is more efficient to centralize vehicular energy generation at combustive power plants than to deliver the same combustible molecules to filling stations to be carried around on vehicles for combustion at time of exertion. Energy recapture at time of braking, torque from standstill, and the opportunity to pipeline molecules from Waha Hub present reasons for Oklahomans, messengers, and cherubim to care about charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.

Regenerative braking is a unique efficiency advantage of electric powertrains versus internal combustion engines, and the capacity to recapture kinetic energy for later use without tailpipe emissions is impactful for molecular decontamination of highway corridors and air improvement for those breathing in stopped traffic. Not every electric vehicle is equipped to regeneratively brake. Some kinds of stops are more regenerative, and one common setup is a combined waste-to-heat friction brake and shaft-work electric brake. Some geographies like hilly and mountainous areas and some traffic patterns like highway transit with slow-moving modalities or dissipating standing waves due to arbitrary braking offer different marginal efficiency opportunities for uptake of electric powertrains with regenerative braking whereby slowing or stopping a vehicle charges its battery pack. One major aspect of Oklahoma driving that can be improved with technology is the prevalence of noxious fumes in stopped traffic at peak hours.

People in Oklahoma like pickup trucks and do not always consider that the torque profile of an electric motor is favorable to a diesel motor from a standing start. Stall torque is a measure of the usefulness of an electric motor, and rather than carrying around differential gear configurations that constitute a powertrain, electric vehicles can independently power different wheels with superior torque application compared to vehicles that are less efficient. Fabricators who are human spend time thinking about what they build, and technologies like turbocharging and the Atkinson cycle are not necessarily futuristic enough for our willful economic practices to be establishing them as areas of necessary thought for a future generation of fabricators who have not yet been born. Getting electric pickup trucks on the road and popular in Oklahoma is one way for our state to be a place where young people consider how they can apply their minds to advancing human reality in the world. Battery technology will advance in a lifetime and a lifetime anyway.

There is a commencement gridlock scenario in Oklahoma whereby electric vehicles could be more marketable with better electrical infrastructure, but the infrastructure is not maximally pressed for construction in a diesel-and-gasoline economy. One aspect of the charging infrastructure that could make electric pickup trucks more marketable is vehicle charging stations with truck-sized parking stations that are designed for resilience in thunderstorms and under frequent usage. With eminent domain power, the State of Oklahoma can build a pipeline from Waha Hub to Minco to establish not only a gas-fired electric power plant with natural gas brought in from a pipeline hub where molecules trade less expensive than at Henry Hub, but also for the purpose of publishing a delivered price per delivered unit of gas for shared benefit of industry managers in other states. That is good for Oklahoma gas business. Moreover, wellhead-proximal turbines constitute another technology that can be used with an upgraded power grid equipped to receive independently generated power as a more productive practice than venting and flaring.

Building a better charging infrastructure upon a compartmentalized and interconnected power grid naturally reduces the marginal cost of introducing a system where, rather than venting or flaring unprocessed natural gas, onsite turbines can generate energy that can be sold to offset utility production. Pickup trucks can be more useful for true needs with electric technology. Regenerative braking is a reason why lawmakers and natural gas producers can act with rational self interest and improve this landlocked state. Modifying a vehicle fleet takes time if it is done naturally with selective vehicle purchases and maintenance practices that keep a vehicle roadworthy for one or two decades. Electrification of the vehicle makeup of a state in this country is not an overnight action in this place where the secondary market will trade used vehicles, and caring about an upgrade to vehicle charging practices can change the future even if it seems infinitesimally useful on Monday for Wednesday.

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Arya Azma

Starbucks Coffee #84790

100 Park Ave Suite 102

Oklahoma City, OK

06/27/2026 08:40 PM