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You are only taking into account the negatives and ignore the positives. Electric trucks will have cheaper maintenance. TCO is much better in pretty much all electric vehicle and every study looking at vans in cities has shown this. Semis will most likely show the same thing.

Such semis will also be faster exhilarating and more maneuverable and be a much more pleasant vehicle to drive. All those things are worth something as well.

Of course they will not dominate from day 1 simply because can't produce enough but they will eat away at ICE market share every year for a long time.

By the time they can produce enough of them to take on long haul routes, batteries will be 2-3 generation further along and the economics will tell.




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