> Tesla is the last company I would look to for advice about the future of the market for haulage. Funny then that many large companies disagree with you have

> Tesla is the last company I would look to for advice about the future of the market for haulage. Funny then that many large companies disagree with you have have order literally 100s of electric trucks from Tesla. > If you try to tell me that your load-bearing conformal battery packs that are critical to making the truck move For a truck, you are gone have body-on-frame anyway so the battery would probably not be structural. And it wouldn't be 'critical' to make the truck move, it would be a weight optimization. > If my truck are loading/unloading they are probably doing it at customer facilities so charging is unlikely to be an option. Lots of companies transport thing between their own facilities and lots of companies have long term costumers. Adding the charging equipment is relativity cheap and could be built to you. > If they are loading/unloading at my facility then I can swap the battery pack at the same time. Go check out how complex these battery swapping robots actually are. Having those at your facility is very costly and need a lot of space. The are prone to break down because they mechanical machines are moving around heavy batteries. Also, so far nobody has even demonstrated this type of battery swap device for a large truck. Current system drop the battery from under the vehicle, this however is not possible in a body-on-frame construction, and a different method would have to be found. Non of the electric truck vendors have announced or even talked about such a system.