California Oregon and Washington are doubling down on electric trucks. Pennsylvania is not far behind.
With the knowledge that one class 7 or 8 tractor plugged in to recharge will put the same amount of draw on the infrastructure as 10 normal sized homes, imagine 100 plugging in at a major distribution city like Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose, Phoenix in summer, or Chicago Detroit New Jersey in winter.
Add to that, limited range. A two driver team can cover 1000+ miles legally. I don’t care if you have three drivers in a truck, you’re limited by how many charging stations and distance between them along your route.
Do the math. We simply don’t have the infrastructure to support them.
Also there’s the initial cost and how much you can carry. Normally your 80,000 gross combined vehicle rated. Due to the weight of the batteries you can run 82,000… except the batteries weigh 4000 pounds. Now you’re 2000 pounds in the hole. Now the costs to the end user go up.
EV’s are fine for passenger cars daily use.
I got my $ on hydrogen fuel cel.