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Truckers are pretty conservative. I don't see an owner-operator being willing to buy one, since if it fails on the road it could take a day or more to get it f
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
Truckers are pretty conservative.
I don't see an owner-operator being willing to buy one, since if it fails on the road it could take a day or more to get it fixed/replaced.
However, I do see 2 markets for the vehicles:
1. Trucking that has a defined area of operation such as say, the truck that does local deliveries in a city covered by a listed CNG center; or a point to point route.
In such a case the long haul truckers will deliver to a big warehouse; then another trucker will load up for deliveries locally. E.g. ice cream, lettuce, carrots delivered by 3 diff. trucks to warehouse; then 1 truck to deliver a mix of these items to each local store in a grocery store chain .
2. For the Zero, there are lots of park rangers that right now have pickup trucks - they drive around the same city or state parks all the time and have 2 way radios. Since they can't go fast anyways, like 10 or 20 miles an hour, the range limitation won't kill them.