Cool stuff, but as with anything electric; battery range and charge time are always going to be the holdouts. Especially for trucks; who commonly go 400-800 mil

Cool stuff, but as with anything electric; battery range and charge time are always going to be the holdouts. Especially for trucks; who commonly go 400-800 miles a day. And time is money: if they can't recharge completely in the time it takes for a normal break they're not going to want to do it. The article mentions short hauls and local freight, but even so, 100 miles is pretty limiting to those figures, even with a single-operator day-cab setup. Torque-wise, electric makes a ton of sense, even if it's a hybrid.