Looking For Advice From Experienced Drivers!!!

"crashing mid-air and raining fire down on bystanders and buildings!"
Some private pilots have been able to accomplish this for some time now. Just saying.

 

"will be a generator that recharges everything"
Gas or diesel?

 

Honestly i think compressed hydrogen and/or methane have a much more likely future then electric. They have the advantage of being easy to make in bulk, being fairly or entirely green depending on how its sourced and produced, can be built in areas where wide spread green energy and easy acess to water is viable. And they can be filled in minutes and shipped nationwide for minimal losses unlike power where you can lose as much as 70% before the truck even moves ontop of hours of downtime. The trade off is hydrogen and methane explode under the wrong conditions.

The two biggest problems with hydro or methane are the lack of infrastructure and companys like tesla more invested in electric as its the current wonderchild and thus making hydro and methane R&D a low priority.

 

Good idea. Would these require the high strength storage tanks as CNG does now? That is the drawback to CNG now, the equipment to actually use.
Pumps, tanks, and dispensing locations.

 

I'm retiring in a couple years cause there simpley will be no work for a driver or owner.
Think about picking oranges in Florida if it hasn't been automated by then....

 

Nobody said it'd be used for flatbed. There's a common misconception among naysayers not just of electric vehicles but of any new tech, that if it isn't immediately better in every concievable way, then it will never be any good. Sort of like how there was some folks who said cars would never catch on because they were filthy, noisy, expensive and slow compared to horses.

 

I think a much more realistic future for our lifetime will be operators still in the truck but trucks will be able to link up and platoon so that only the lead truck will have someone sitting behind the controls. The following trucks can have their drivers in the sleeper fulfilling their rest breaks. Basically it could be planned and set up so that they’re running similar to a team truck only with one driver per truck.

I think electric and alternative fuels will make more of an inroad into local and regional work since that’s where it will be easier to introduce them.

I can see old trucks being outlawed in short order with this administration as well as measures taken, be it 6 month or yearly inspections, to make sure the emission systems aren’t deleted on newer trucks.

There will be changes, but it won’t be the end of trucks and trucking. Adapt or die.

 

I didn't say they'd use the forklift plug. Freightliner says 8 hours charge for 240 miles. That'd be great for local urban food service distribution, etc. where you can drive it all day and then charge overnight, but that doesn't mean anyone expects it to power a cross country reefer. Not without drastic improvements, anyway.

 

Depends on which way the tech develops. If we go the compressed gas as the fuel directly instead of diesel then likely yes. If we go the fuel cell and electric route then it would depend on which way the tech branches. You could go with onboard converters that use a small apu like diesel generator to supply the current to convert water directly to hydrogen and the pumps to seperate and compress it. then you only need to add water and occasionally diesel and the rest is built in. You could also go hot swapable or some hybrid thereof. There are a lot of paths we could go.

 

I’d reckon something like an APU that uses much less diesel and has less emissions. No possible way that our power grid handles electric vehicles. The weight savings will also help offset the battery.