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Your average road train which has restrictions on which roads it can drive on is 3 trailers. 4 trailer trains exist with far stricter limitations. I just don’t
by jackvalentine 3y ago
Your average road train which has restrictions on which roads it can drive on is 3 trailers. 4 trailer trains exist with far stricter limitations.
I just don’t see a 12 trailer 140m long road train with wires strung between the bits being feasible in any way on a road that has other, untrained users on it.
- jeffparsons 3y agoOkay, let's ditch the wires and put a battery pack in each trailer skate. If that limits range too much, we can figure out some kind of clever charging or fast battery swap solution. (None of the reasons for the failure of battery swap in passenger cars apply to trucking, AFAIK.)
- jackvalentine 3y agoThe wires aren’t the main blocker to my mind - the sheer length of them on existing roads is. There is a reason we don’t do super long trucks already. They would for example block 2/3rds of an onramp merge zone as they passed. IF we did gigantic trucks they’d be so severely limited in what roads they could use before being ‘broken down’ in to smaller units for the final delivery that we might as well just make trains.