bigstraight6:
switchlogic:
bigstraight6:
Franglais:
Those doing the long runs will be mostly on m-way and major routes.
Look at what Germany is doing:
They could run on, and simultaneously recharge from, cantenary wires.Not a solution to every issue, but doable today with existing battery technology and systems.
Expensive to roll out the hardware, but if it becomes an EU wide standard system…quite possible to see it happening IMHO.Can’t see any of that in reality, the diesel engined lorry has done the job reliably and efficiently for well over 70 years now and there is not a viable electric alternative, with the basics as in comparable range and recharging/refuelling time nowhere near being progress.
And people probably said exactly the same about diesel trucks 70 years ago. A huge network of fuel stations didn’t pop up overnight and people were probably very fond of pointing out how easy it was to procure hay to feed your transport horse and how difficult it was to find diesel, so a little daft to write off electric because the infrastructure isn’t present from the get go.
You seem to have missed the point about range and refuelling time/recharging time which also seems a little daft.
It all comes under the same idea. No one at all anywhere is claiming they are fully developed into what will be the end product that will work with any application. Range and refilling time is the same idea as fuel stations, trucks didn’t start out doing 10+mpg with 1000 litre tanks fuelled by high capacity diesel pumps, hell they may have even been hand cranked! Plus for a large number of operations range isn’t that big an issue, a huge amount of HGVs don’t do anywhere max miles cruising 800km down a motorway daily, much as drivers wish they did. Too many of you seem to be under the illusion that technology has somehow stopped 