The perfect vehicle for range cattle
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I would imagine the only feasible system involves swapping trucks at stops. Pre-charging a fleet to pick up the cargo from the previous fleet like a relay-run. This means several things.
All this will ultimately serve to do, is drive everyone right back to gas or rail. Since the people who love electric love centralization, they'll try to force rail first, but the capacity is not and never will be there compared to what trucks presently do. Transport companies will cash in on their crony leverage to carve out gas-usage exemptions since it's all that makes sense to do.
All electric is from a government standpoint is an attack on mobility and freedom. Gas is too efficient of an energy conduit and grants the rabble too much of an ability to be anywhere they want without clearance or knowledge of their betters. Gotta snuff it out for that reason alone.
The transport Tycoon player in me is grinning at the thought of a rail rush and covering north America with rail lines, but your right it probably won't happen. Maybe if society crashes back to the 1920s, but trucks would still be indispensable for for the last leg to retail.
These last 8 years have really brought into sharp relief how much delusionaly optimistic fantasy I was sold about technology in the early 2010s. If they weren't predicting the end of the world due to population growth or global warming/climate change, they were predicting technological marvels like instant housing, infinite clean energy and the achievement of global harmony and equality.
I guess it's a sort of carrot and stick approach. Do what we want and you get all this neat stuff, continue on the current path and suffer. Like a religion. Hmm.
I suppose in some respects its encouraging that they seem to have lost their carrot and are now the utopian future includes eating bugs, living in pods within dystopian hive cities and driving vehicles that are unable to transport you to the next hive over.
These days whenever I hear that all vehicles will be electric in the future, I assume that the person speaking is an ignorant city dweller who has never had to leave it for any of their needs.
Why don't you ignorant fucks start with some trolley buses or something. At least those are cool. economically viable. and would rejuvenate our rotting public transit systems.
Also, if you're disappointed that you don't live in the utopia, you can be turned into a political radical by blaming it all on that guy over there who stopped it from happening.
Yeah, because the world needs more Moviebobs
Sounds like a logistic nightmare that would be alot less troublesome if there was a sort of docking system to just switch batteries instead.
The point is to strip the plebs of their independance. The elites and politicians will still fly on private planes and get driven around their luxurious cars.
They don't sincerely believe every car owners will switch to improved electric cars in a decade or two. They plan to coerce most to give up their independant mobility.
But what's the point? The only time most people go anywhere other than to work and back are to get things to enable one to continue the cycle. It just sounds like a lot of complicated logistics work for something that worked the same on it's own.
''Hold up citizen, it seems your Social Credit score is insufficient to board this bus. Your 12th booster is several days late.''
The same way they explain everything else. Lies and nonsense.
I for one would love for them to try to get around the weight limit for roads. An electric lorry would weigh so much that you would have basically no cargo capacity in the trailer without exceeding the limits and incurring massive fines.
It's the same problem with every electric vehicle: it's not the motors, it's the batteries. The motors weigh nothing in comparison to the batteries, and until we find a way to make them as energy dense as gasoline, or at the very least make them weigh half as much as they do, they'll never be as useful as a diesel.
I don't know but they are already normalizing us to accept bare shelves at the supermarket, which will be common if the trucks are delayed while charging.
I hate to be that guy but for commercial transport, I can envisage some circumstances under which it works better than this.
If it's commercial, for instance, there's going to be less of a problem with the concept of leasing the battery, which is a fair chunk of the value of the vehicle.
You don't need to swap the truck, only the battery. Tesla already has a fancy demo of a charging station dumping the battery out the bottom of the vehicle and swapping a new one in - https://youtu.be/H5V0vL3nnHY?t=60
If the battery's leased, you don't even care if you get the original one back, merely something of equivalent function. So that charging station can charge up your old battery in however long it takes - or ship it off for recycling if it's reached end-of-life. You don't care, you're on your merry way with the new one, that you also don't own.
Plus, with the way petrol prices are serving to keep everybody off the road, in their pods, consuming their bugs, it might be easier on the truck AI if it comes to it...
Hence why I suggested Trolly busses. If they were first to build the infrastructure of overhead wires for busses, perhaps smaller trucks could use them in cities too. Pulling electricity right from the grid solves the weight and efficiency issues with batteries at the very least. You still need to scale the grid to meet increased power demands, but it's less ridiculous than everyone driving a Tesla or battery powered big rigs.
Eh, I'm not sure about that. Trolleybuses work quite well for buses, with fixed routes, but the effort - and likelihood of faults - goes up the more intersections you have to put in. Not sure if I'd say it's ready for joe public, tbh.
True. I was thinking things like garbage trucks, which also have fixed routes.