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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by TillE on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:11PM (#16684580)
With the kind of infrastructure required for that, I can't help but think it would just be a lousy version of an electric railway. At least for long hauls with high throughput.
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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by tomhschmidt on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:36PM (#16684700)
How would it be lousy? The cars can now go anywhere and dynamically route instead of being stuck on rails and the infrastructure costs are orders of magnitude less.
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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by colordrops on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:40PM (#16684733)
That's like saying that circuit switched networks are better than packet switched.
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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by amluto on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:37PM (#16685009)
They would be if packets had enormous per-packet overhead.
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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by Gibbon1 on Monday March 26, 2018 @11:09PM (#16684872)
At some point you start wondering about improving intermodal transportation. Using rail for longer distances with trucks handling the last 50-100 miles.
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