The problem with going all-in on EV's is that the charging situation doesn't work out for various reasons. First, the batteries we have currently don't hold enough charge, in not ideal efficiency, are far too expensive, difficult to dispose of or recycle, and more importantly the current infrastructure is thoroughly unsuitable for an electric vehicle world. If suddenly all vehicles on the road were electric tomorrow, the peaks in electric demand in the mornings and evenings would cause our power systems to crash and destroy the electric grid.
Here however is an alternative: overhead power cables for large trucks and buses which have spare batteries to go about, so their range is extended but also to charge them as they move so the usage peaks aren't extreme. This should be the future of large commercial electric trucks.
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