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