Yep, when batteries are 5+ times as energy dense and fully charge in 20 minutes, it might be viable.

The biggest issue is weight. Trucks have a max allowed weight and any battery capable of moving it, will significantly eat into it’s cargo weight. 10000 lbs is probably very undersized, so you’re taking at least a 10% reduction in cargo capacity per trip. Probably closer to 20%.

b/c AI hasn’t (yet) subverted gov’t regulations.

Sure, but long haul electric is a bad solution to our freight problem. We’d be far better off investing in a rail upgrade nationwide.

and apparently can brake harder than jakes.

“no way these could be used as a long haul truck”

It doesn’t. Lowers it some but vast amounts of air don’t go up the vent.

Should be, but surprisingly Consumer Reports noted that EVs have significantly higher issues than ICE cars. I attribute it to just being new and mfrs trying to stuff every possible feature into them in the last few years. Instead of the EV civic and corolla people would actually buy.

Narrator:  They look pretty crappy new

Curious how that stops the theft issue?   I could easily see scan 2 put 3 in cart etc.

how big are these stores? seems like once you get to full size grocery, having an easy way to store for grabbing 100+ scanners, that are charged etc. might get a bit clustered.

you forget the absolutely fool proof back up plan. Powerstrips. Instant 500% increase in charging stations ;-)

you snark, but that’s something people don’t seem to get. We have these global targets we *need* to hit but I don’t see any of the models accounting for the politics literally reversing chunks of the progress.

the issue is you aren’t putting in 1:1 chargers at any work place. Those L2's need to turn over pretty fast or pretty quickly you can’t get a charge because the 15 chargers for 100 people are stuck waiting on a 2 hr meeting.

87 civic 4 door, 11 people.   ahh, college

the counter point is ppl renting or without home charging *should* be buying larger capacity batteries because they can’t charge as conveniently.

The thing this idea entirely ignores is the, ahem, astronomical cost of ‘gathering’ any of those defunct space junk. If we could gather these things, we’d be able to de-orbit them easily reducing the Kessler Syndrome likelihood.

yeah I chalked that much up to graphics issues lol The engineering challenges of this and the wide area of failure just seem pretty extreme.

Just a matter of delicately grabbing a multi-ton payload at Mach 12.

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