[nine_k]

I suspect that battery hot-swapping will be practical for electric trucks. Charging them is really slow unless you use a dozen of cables. Parked time costs real money for them. Normal trucks unload, reload, and go back to the highway pretty soon, often with a different driver at the wheel.

Truck yards usually already have equipment for heavy lifting, and the batteries need not be tailored to the car aesthetics and space constraints. Also, a narrower industry has a better chance to come up with a common standard.

[DerArzt]

Tom Scott did a video[1] on this that tackles the problem of electric trucks in a different way. Instead of charging somewhere or swapping out a battery, what if we charged them while they were in a specific lane of a highway.

[1] https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg

[everforward]

I'm wondering how well that will scale if all/most of the trucks become electric. I would think the friction would create issues from both heat and mechanical wear.

[tim333]

Also it's normal with trucks to have a bunch of stuff kind of bolted on the bottom eg https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/fuel-tanker-truck-pictu...