(January 29, 2019 at 3:42 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Daytripping trucks are going to be the first huge success for electric vehicles, imo. You know where they start and stop every night, they have consistent downtimes, you know the regular distance between the points..and their operational costs can be reduced much more significantly than private vehicles can be by a switch to electric.
That's why teslas trying to get their trucks out there ahead of it.
FedEx and UPS are already rolling out electric trucks. Not quite the daytrippers you're referring to but pretty close. IIRC they already have fleets of hybrids.
