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Originally Posted by rumatt
I don't see how that helps. The vehicles wheels can regen on the downhills.
Now, fill that trailer with batteries and it's a different story 
How about trailer sharing? Leave your dead tralier and pickup a charged one?  |
Given the absolutely rigid enforcement of driver seat time / down time these days (automatic logbooks), you don't really even need trailer exchanges. You just need to figure out how to get truck endurance to the point where they can cover the duty period. They are only actually allowed 11 hours of driving in a 24 hour day. (14 hour duty period, allowing for short breaks, 10 hour rest period.)
So you could cover a huge share of the usage simply by offering 11 hours of use (with margin), and a 10 hour charge time. That's not a small ask, but I'd have to imagine that it's doable.