The perfect vehicle for range cattle
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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.