Sysco takes delivery of 10 Freightliner electric semi trucks, plans to buy 800
Sysco takes delivery of 10 Freightliner electric semi trucks, plans to buy 800
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Sysco takes delivery of 10 Freightliner electric semi trucks, plans to buy 800
This is great news. The adoption of ev’s will only occur when it is economically advantageous. Capitalism prevents it from playing out any other way.
If a company like Sysco has calculated that it is in their best interest to move to ev’s, the rest will follow.
Probably no more than 10 years before the majority of freight trucks are ev’s.
I hope you're right! I can't wait for fleets of quiet trucks that don't belch diesel exhaust!
That'd be great. Can't wait till the whole supply chain, from cargo ships, freight trucks, and last mile delivery, all stop burning fossil fuels
Its economically advantageous for Sysco because they are in the business of short haul freight. Batteries have plenty of power to do daily deliveries from warehouses to customers, or suppliers to warehouses.
Long haul trucks are not feasible with battery electric trucks, which is why both freightliner and pieterbuilt's ev offerings are just short haul trucks with a day cab.
Absolutely correct. The sheer weight of the batteries needed for long haul trucking would be entirely self defeating. Not to mention the time needed to charge then