Musk has described electric trucks as Tesla’s next effort to move the economy away from fossil fuels through projects including electric cars, solar roofs and power storage. The heavy batteries eat into the weight of cargo an electric truck can haul. Old Dominion Freight Line Inc, the fourth-largest US less-than-truckload carrier, which consolidates smaller freight loads onto a single truck, said it would not use the Tesla truck. Still, manufacturers are mostly focused on medium-duty trucks, not the heavy big rig market Tesla is after. Charging and maintaining electric trucks that crisscross the country could be expensive and complex.

Source: New Strait Times November 17, 2017 04:30 UTC