Need of Advances for Electric Trucks

 On the use of electric trucks, and what they will need to make them broadly viable.

Electric trucks can go the (short) distance

To electrify the entire industry, battery technology and charging infrastructure would have to improve.  by Casey Crownhart

While some trucks cover over a thousand miles in a day, others operate at short range. These vehicles are more feasible for electrification in the near term, according to Brennan Borlaug, a researcher at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the lead author of a recent Nature Energy study on electric-truck charging infrastructure.        ... " 

No Driver on Board: Autonomous Trucks to Take to the Road

 Evan Ackerman presents a good overview of the state of autonomous trucking.   Door to door, with lots of links to background information.    This should get us lots of further useful data about operational experiences. (ie accidents)  and the implications.     Having worked in trucking industry HR management and optimization, can see there will be big changes.

This Year, Autonomous Trucks Will Take to the Road With No One on Board

The startup TuSimple is deploying tractor-trailers that drive themselves from pickup to delivery

By Evan Ackerman  in IEEE Spectrum

Companies like Tesla, Uber, Cruise, and Waymo promise a future where cars are essentially mobile robots that can take us anywhere with a few taps on a smartphone. But a new category of vehicles is about to overtake self-driving cars in that leap into the future. Autonomous trucks have been quietly making just as much, if not more, progress toward commercial deployment, and their impact on the transportation of goods will no doubt be profound.

Among nearly a dozen companies developing autonomous trucking, San Diego–based TuSimple is trying to get ahead by combining unique technology with a series of strategic partnerships. ... "