General Discussion

...up the use of EV trucks will be more difficult than passenger cars until strides are made in charging, battery quality and capacity, and range--as well as battery recycling, etc.

The effort in Norway is very encouraging, but Norway is roughly the size of New Mexico with roughly the population of South Carolina. Transportation demands in the U.S. are vastly different.

Delivery times are a huge issue for the industry. Building out a network of tractors that can be charged and ready to carry cargo on to the next charging stop could alleviate the issue of long charging times impacting transit times, but that will heavily favor large carriers over independent operators unless they are able to organize effectively. Paradigm shifts are often difficult, but to make EV models work for the trucking industry it will require one.

Hydrogen fuel cells do also show a lot of promise as well.

Our biggest problem at the moment is that we have people in charge that do not want alternate fuel sources to prevail. That is something that needs to change--and it is something we thought was changing which makes it even harder to comprehend.

Coincidentally, much of the technology needed to push the EV field forward depends on things like lightweight plastics which require petroleum to produce.

Our dependence on carbon-based products will persist for quite a while....