i guess they help maintain a medium scale transit op

that truck right there was driving on regular roads

luci be like 'we have 10 items to ship, let's wait until 100000 other people have 10 items to ship so we can use a train'

You think people at Mercedes/Daimler/Chrysler/Renault/Volvo/Scania/Bosh are absolute retards and don't know how to build EV haulers?

Those are all involved in this

@svarozhyc eternal question of whether to ship by truck train plane or ship

you can make an electric engine as powerful as you want

You think that they can solve an intrinsic problem with EV haulers in secret without anybody knowing about it?

its not like electric engines are inherently not powerful

what do you think theyve used in factories for a hundred years?

..... motors

not engines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4W-P5aCWJs @Louis

its just the specific engines people put into small elecric cars have a reputation of being not powerful

Keyword **BATTERIES**

and?

that being said there are also electric sports cars

have you never heard of those?

If you have overhead freaking lines, it is irrelevant and your EV can tow the same as any railroad train

until the lines get taken out

lol

just add a flux compasitor and what you order today you will recieve yeasterday

^

luci is correct.

petrol is versatile until there's petrol

but yeah electric sports cars are a thing

🤷

@Lucienne d'Anwyl Electric motors in EVs are damn powerful, but they have to haul a lot more dead weight of batteries, compared to the internal combustion cars

Its simple. A snowstorm or power outage can destroy all shipping in trucks if this is a thing.

with comparable acceleration and speeds to other sports cars

the limiting factor right now is battery capacity

or you know

don't they already do that louis?

no matter the mode of transport?

not exactly

practicality of having massive railine grade cables constructed over every major road in the country

unless its physically impossible to go on the road

and then having to maintain them under far worse conditions than any railway wire ever suffered

i mean i guess there's different levels of risk

and necessary mitigation coming with them

neither snowstorm nor power outtage stops trucks lol