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Hydrogen as an alternative
My bet is that hydrogen is as viable and probably more realistic for heavy trucks. Toyota sells a hydrogen powered car in California and they already have a hydrogen powered truck running in the port of LA on trials. So it is as viable for trucks as Tesla Electric trucks. It takes 15 minutes to refuel that truck... It is really about the infrastructure. There is no hydrogen infrastructure, and making all trucks electric will require a huge infrastructure investment for electricity. If we assume one truck will use 500kWh per day if you multiply that by 100,000 trucks that is 50,000mWh. California capacity is only 70,000mwh with average demand of ~25,000mWh so if all those truck plug in at the same time total brown out... Then across the US There are 2.8M trucks in the US...
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