Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 02, 2024, 04:38 PMCharging stations on inter-states is a really good idea.  So I'll be back.  With less negativity.

I'll handle the negativity.

Except for where they intersect with cities, the interstate runs through very low population areas, particularly out west.  Because the population is so low, they don't have any high voltage substations, no wiring.  The best you can do here is to upgrade the wiring at the truck stops that currently serve the ICE trucks for the 240V charging stations, but even with that, the batt packs for a semi that could pull a 20 ton load would take at least 12 hours to charge, probably more.  IOW, what currently takes 30 min to fill your tanks with diesel would take half a day, minimum.  Generally speaking when you are running you fill up every day or every other day.  So switching to EV trucks doubles how long it would take to ship...except...

At any truck stop you will usually have about 8-12 pumps all going filling trucks, all day.  Each one takes 15-30 min to fill.  If those all were electric charging stations, you would have a truck parked there all day charging.  If you even have enough electricity coming in to the stop to run 8 stations I would be surprised.  But that's nothing, a truckstop refuels 100-200 trucks every day.  There is no way you will ever get that much power running in to a truck stop.

EV trucks can work inside cities on local routes, charging overnight.  For the interstate OTR bizness, it can't work with charging this way.  Flow batteries could work though, maybe.  You would still need a lot of electricity to charge up the fuel in the truck stop storage tanks..

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