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Most likely not.. it would be difficult to warehouse, move, charge and redeploy the batteries in typical truck stops. On top of that, with so many different
by akira2501 5y ago
Most likely not.. it would be difficult to warehouse, move, charge and redeploy the batteries in typical truck stops. On top of that, with so many different fleets in operation in the US, there's no guarantee there will be the broad compatibility and on-the-road service that you would want when integrating an unknown piece of equipment on your vehicle.
It will likely be more difficult for trucks. The amount of space consumed by the battery is prohibitive, and they're not laid out "below the floor" like they are in a passenger vehicle. They're typically in a large stack behind the drivers cabin, imaging the type of equipment needed to do the swap, I can't see this happening regularly.
- maxerickson 5y agoThe trailer could have a battery pad on the front. Service it with a forklift.
- UglyToad 5y agoYeah, sadly I think you're right. Ultimately this is somewhere standardization would really help. If rather than a fuelling pump there was some kind of (strong!) robotic assembly/arm that just retrieves the battery from behind the cabin, inserts it into a magazine type system at the truck stop and inserts the available charged battery from the same magazine with zero human involvement then I can't see the process exceeding 10 minutes or so. But this is somewhere where commercial competition will resist standardization, and I think that's going to cause difficulties in electric vehicle tech more broadly.