A quick look reveals that, while this is true, the industry wants to achieve full load factor due to economics. What surprised me was to learn that up to 35% o

A quick look reveals that, while this is true, the industry wants to achieve full load factor due to economics. What surprised me was to learn that up to 35% of trucks on the road are empty. Also, companies like Home Depot, Amazon, Walmart, etc., who have more control over the loading of their trucks regularly achieve 85% load factor. I think this is a potentially interesting question. If 85% load factor means that it would be safe to add 12,000 lbs to a trailer to electrify it, the exercise might make sense. The bottom line is that the economics and the logistics have to make sense. I don't know enough about the combination to have a valid opinion one way or the other. The only thing I can say is that, more often than not, things that sound good on first inspection fail to survive contact with reality. For example: The fleet of non-electrified trailers are simple and inexpensive when compared to electric trailers with 200 kWh in batteries, powerful motors and all that goes with that transition. I could be wrong, on this. I just can't see a business model that makes sense for replacing all "dumb" trailers with electrified trailers. It would be horribly expensive, the trailers would now require logistics, maintenance and support of their own and the transportation system isn't setup to support them. To me it makes far more sense to keep trailers dumb and electrify tractors.