Was Wondering If And When I Was Going To See These.

I’ve seen the tractors for a few years now but this is the first I’ve seen the trailer. Koch foods in Melrose Park. Anybody else see em? I’m betting it’s at least 400k in this picture.

Their spotter jeeps are also electric. I’ve heard though the charge on the tractors don’t last long at all. Thoughts? Do you think this is the future or just going to be used by companies virtue signaling?

Do you think this is the future or just going to be used by companies virtue signaling?

It won't happen soon, but someday they'll have a major breakthrough in battery technology, and this stuff will become economically feasible. Right now, running an all-electric vehicle infrastructure with today's battery technology is incredibly expensive. The mining, manufacturing, and charging infrastructure requirements are vast. We're nowhere near ready for this on a major scale. Battery technology needs to improve by 100x.

What I think we're living through now, with attempts at fully autonomous driving and electric vehicles, is real-world learning using someone else's money (taxpayers). Our technological skills are developing and we're solving real-world problems, but are we heading down the best path?

If the government would get out of the way, drones have a much more exciting future than driving vehicles. If the US had to make a commitment to either electric vehicles or drones, I'd much rather pursue drones. When you do a deep-dive comparison of drones to ground vehicles, drones have a million advantages. When you need the practicality of a ground vehicle, which you will, then you'll have it. Most of the time the drone will be the better choice.

If it evolved organically, I think you would see a gradual transition away from ground vehicles to drones over time. Every family would have a ground vehicle, and many would have at least one drone.

Even Musk has said that we're capped at battery capacity relational to weight utilizing existing materials that we know of on this planet.

ICE powered vehicles continue to become more and more efficient and powerful. Eventually I'd expect electro magnetic propulsion, nitrogen based fuels and bio fuels particularly in regards to freight hauling.

They have been successfully doing continuous production biodesiel using centrifuges for a while now. In the early days of biodeseil, it was only batch made like whiskey. Our existing deisel motors can easily be retrofitted to accept B100 fuel, it's changing the ECU, fuel lines and seals.

The biggest hangup is that the oil and gas producers are vested in their current systems, the coat to switch wouldn't benefit them compared to the cost of extraction and refinement using existingmeans many of which are decades old. So they lobby and buy out to keep it as is.

I've wondered in this whole electric concept, "Why" haven't they developed a self charging system, to keep the battery power up. Same as our vehicles with alternators lol Virtually no real need for charging stations??? I won't be seeing where they've progressed technically in 20 years from now, maybe be like the Jetson's in 50 years hahaha