Posted by CenTex Farmall on November 28, 2017 at 20:52:24 from (107.77.253.6):
In Reply to: Electric Semi's posted by popinjohn on November 27, 2017 at 18:41:32:
One big thing the media has barely covered is the fire hazard that exists when you have a large concentration of Li-on batteries. It's been an issue for years for air cargo carriers with numerous incidents and a couple of crashes having been caused when shipments of batteries caught fire due to thermal runaway.
When one of these trucks has even a minor fender bender and there's damage to the batteries you have the potential for a quite a fireworks show in addition to the hazmat situation of spillage. There was a Tesla crash last year (IIRC) where the batteries caught fire and were going off like roman candles.
The batteries have been working ok for hybrids and light vehicles but when you try to compile enough battery storage to move 40 tons for 500 miles......well, we're just not there yet.
No truck drivers in 7 years? Well, in grade school we were told that scientist were certain the world would run out of oil by 1999.
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