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All Trucks Will Run On Batteries Filled With Low-Carbon Electricity
While Tesla’s Semi and charging were head and shoulders above the rest, trucks from other vendors were easily doing 150 miles and up a day with real loads and routes.
Think Amazon delivery vans, garbage trucks and 18 wheelers that bring produce and other food products from suburban distribution centers to big grocery stores every day. Cebon and I spoke about another alternative which he favors and I consider less likely to be necessary, which is putting overhead trolley wires above lanes of heavy trucking routes and adding extensible connectors — pantographs — to the top of semi tractors. This is completely technically viable, is a century old technology used with buses, trolleys and heavy trains globally and would enable the semis to both run on grid electricity and charge their batteries for periods off the highway.
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