Posted by Duane WI on November 28, 2017 at 06:12:27 from (98.100.148.3):
In Reply to: Electric Semi's posted by popinjohn on November 27, 2017 at 18:41:32:
The entire trucking system will be reconfigured to take advantage of self driving electric semis. You no longer need a cab and sleeper so there is plenty of room for a battery. A dock worker can plug in a remote control joy stick and back the truck up to the dock while walking along outside of it. Trucks could exchange batteries like fork lifts. Instead of the trucking company owning the batteries the trucking company can lease kilowatt hours from a battery company. Instead of buying gallons of diesel they will buy KWHs. The actual design of the tractor will completely change. You really don't have a drive train you have electric motors on each drive wheel. You only need about half or less of the trucks we have today. Driverless trucks can run 24 hours no rest needed. Everything we think about today that is associated with trucking will change. There will be truck operating centers that people go to and monitor trucks remotely. They do an 8 hour shift and the next shift comes in. I think the mistake people make is trying to do a one to one direct replacement of what we do today. The only thing in the trucking industry that is required is delivering freight. Everything else about how the trucking industry works can change.
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