Good news... dreaming of BEV Class A

JRscooby wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

JRscooby wrote:
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For local light duty delivery trucks running fixed short routes...electric is viable.

That's not what is being promoted.

For local delivery, I can't see how the routes could not be "fixed" same as ICE. For instance, package delivery. Of old as the package is read, somebody decide which truck it should go on. Then the driver decide where in the truck, and what order of stops, so he can get to the package when he gets to that stop. Now, the package is scanned, the computer decides which truck, and likely where in truck, and programs the route. Would it be that hard to make the computer limit the maximum travel distance?
Terminal to terminal? In the past, the terminals where spaced based on the distance a driver could travel in the hours he could legally drive. Would it be so hard to space them by the limit of battery charge life? In the past, (and probably still) slip seat operation, a driver would get to a motel at the end of shift, get out, another driver get in, move the load toward destination. Replace the motel with a charge station, swap tractors instead of drivers.

I think for the freight and manufacturing, that's how it will evolve for the total autonomous hauls.

First, the controlled environment like the factory campus.

Then point-to-point in say, entry and exit to a major freeway.

However, I doubt if a total unmanned or "unsupervised (eg, remote piloted)' will be allowed in routes where it will traverse busy streets.

I don't know, I'm speculating based on the news and readings about the subjectt