{"id":891,"date":"2017-10-26T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/10\/26\/trend-ev-truck-platooning-4-key-points\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T22:25:00","slug":"trend-ev-truck-platooning-4-key-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-ev-truck-platooning-4-key-points\/","title":{"rendered":"TREND. EV Truck Platooning. 4 Key Points."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tesla is set to unviel its electric self driving truck in Novmeber 2017<\/li>\n<li>The economics of truck driving has shown the greatest efficiency with a platoon of trucks\n<ul>\n<li>7-8 trucks driving in close proximity<\/li>\n<li>effectively reduces diesel costs for regular trucks and can reduce battery use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Long range (900 mile) EV trucks are thought to be cost prohibitive unless robotic battery changing (not charging) stations are available<\/li>\n<li>Self driving electric trucks will focus on short range trips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609152\/an-electric-semi-definitely-wont-workbut-seven-in-a-row-might\/\">MIT Technology Review |\u00a0An Electric Semi Definitely Won\u2019t Work\u2014But Seven in a Row Might<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tesla is set to unviel its electric self driving truck in Novmeber 2017<\/li>\n<li>The economics of truck driving has shown the greatest efficiency with a platoon of trucks\n<ul>\n<li>7-8 trucks driving in close proximity<\/li>\n<li>effectively reduces diesel costs for regular trucks and can reduce battery use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Long range (900 mile) EV trucks are thought to be cost prohibitive unless robotic battery changing (not charging) stations are available<\/li>\n<li>Self driving electric trucks will focus on short range trips<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609152\/an-electric-semi-definitely-wont-workbut-seven-in-a-row-might\/\">MIT\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,10,17,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-trend","category-ev-electric-vehicles","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","category-trucking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}