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I am so hopeful for the future of electric trucking. That's an industry above all else where total lifetime cost of ownership will make decisions - and no maintenance, no DEF, no oil changes, no idling and wasting fuel, etc. will (I think) easily justify the upfront capital cost.The class 6 we have on order has two variants for battery size that predict 100 miles of range for the standard battery or 200 miles for the larger unit. It's really just barely adequate for a work truck.
I work for a lighting company with branches in California and Arizona. We have about 175 trucks in our fleet. We would buy the Tesla semi immediately if it were available. I do not prefer Tesla for my personal vehicle but for commercial use they could be very attractive. Just having our company logo on the side of a Tesla medium or heavy duty truck would do wonders for our marketing image. Being a lighting company that provides energy savings solutions and rolling up to the customer's property with a Tesla electric trucks would make our customers very happy.
Right now we have to be careful that we don't idle the diesel engines too long or leak fluid all over their plaza etc. An electric truck minimizes those issues quite a bit.
I really see trucking getting into BEVs faster than passenger cars - once the products are available for sale.
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