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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Yeah I wonder what the yearly cost differences would be for semi-truck companies. I would assume they would save money on fuel & maintenance. Individual owners would stick to diesel, but I wonder if larger companies could get some kind of incentive to make a large change.
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Beyond cost, I think that the torque advantage of electric is an incentive for using electric semis. That said, the infrastructure would have to be in place before it became feasible.
I think that a decade is a reasonable timeline. That is when automated vehicles are predicted to be publicly sold. I can imagine that both will start to be implemented simultaneously.