Cheaper maybe, but the weight is significant to the point that federal laws have to allow higher weights for battery electric trucks to make them viable. The b

Cheaper maybe, but the weight is significant to the point that federal laws have to allow higher weights for battery electric trucks to make them viable. The biggest problem isn't the truck itself though, it's charging it. A single truck requires as much energy as a dozen cars meaning that a truck fast charger is going to need the equivalent of an entire bay of car fast chargers, and they require charging significantly more often. A car can get 95% of it's charging done at home overnight, whereas a battery electric truck is likely to need fast charging several times a day. The most convenient place to put these chargers would be at the loading bays where trucks pick up and drop off trailers, but these are generally not owned by the trucking company so the owner has little incentive to drop hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars on chargers to save the trucking company money _sometimes_.