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daugen said:
Coming next month. This has always made sense to me because a big truck has the size and power to haul a lot of batteries around.
Now what about a high speed wind turbine on top? or somewhere...generate electricity while you drive down the interstate, help charge your batteries in
addition to the entire top of the trailer being solar panels one would assume.
Big long haul trucks average perhaps 500hp today. Let's assume the electric folks are going for the lighter weight loads to start.
So four 100 hp electric motors and 2500 torque. Instant torque. Half to be careful with loads and traction perhaps.

Everything will likely be automatic, trucks will move along in long adaptive cruise control controlled lines.
Until Larry Loser in the passing lane sees his exit while texting and rips across four lanes right in front of
Musk's giant moving battery powered truck. Then we'll see what safety tricks he has up his sleeve.
If you have seen the Youtube video of the newish Volvo semi stopping in a remarkably short space avoiding a collision
with a car that pulled right in front of them, you can tell there is a new day for big trucks coming. At least for the major operators.

If they can make the economic and ecological case for electric semis, I think we will start to see these on the highway.
Will guess that intercity will be first. Not like these things are going to fit in his supercharger setups he has already built; those are all regular parking spaces.
Somebody has to take the first step and Tesla seems to like that role. I just wonder when he is going to run out of money...his money
and ours. I hope he doesn't; what has been accomplished is remarkable.

Cab companies have gone hybrid and I think in some test cases plug in.

I don't think diesel is dead anytime soon, but how soon do you think you might be driving an electric truck?
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Long lines of trucks? How about the electric trains already in service in Europe.

Wind turbine? Gonna eliminate all overpasses? Don't fit in with real physics.

Solar cells on vehicles? How much power would be generated at constant use?

Generation of electricity by wind and solar means will happen.
 
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Egon said:
Long lines of trucks? How about the electric trains already in service in Europe.

Wind turbine? Gonna eliminate all overpasses? Don't fit in with real physics.

Solar cells on vehicles? How much power would be generated at constant use?

Generation of electricity by wind and solar means will happen.
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We have electric trains in service here too. They still need to be hooked to the electric grid. The Monorails at Disney are electric. Lots of subway trains are electric that is why you can’t touch the third rail.
 
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Btown said:
We have electric trains in service here too. They still need to be hooked to the electric grid. The Monorails at Disney are electric. Lots of subway trains are electric that is why you can稚 touch the third rail.
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Btown said:
We have electric trains in service here too. They still need to be hooked to the electric grid. The Monorails at Disney are electric. Lots of subway trains are electric that is why you can稚 touch the third rail.
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Far as I know all modern trains are electric...just different ways of getting the juice...!
 
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