Imagining battery-powered trucking seems easier these days. Cool, sleek semis seem to be all over the trucking news and, even, dotting the popular press. But what about real business? Are electric vehicles REALLY poised to break through in commercial transportation? Other alternative fuels have held similar promises: to cut fuel costs, eliminate emissions, and find parity with diesel. So, Transport Topics' Managing Editor of Features, Seth Clevenger wonders, what makes electric different -- and more viable? To get his answer, the journalist heads to a top industry researcher and the head of a business unit at a major engine manufacturer known for engineering DIESEL technologies. What they say about infrastructure, the power grid, engineering and maintenance, investment, and the opportunity timeline may surprise you.
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