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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Semis powered by fuel cells make an awful lot of sense.
The infrastructure issue becomes much easier to tackle as you just need to put one every couple hundred miles at a truck stop. There is tons of space to put the fuel tanks. The weight of the system should be comparable to that of a diesel powertrain (vs an electric semi that would be almost entirely battery to go any distance). Since fuel cells are electric drive you get the low rpm torque that a huge heavy truck needs. And as an added bonus, there is no need for an APU to power things while the truck is stopped.
Its as close to an ideal pairing as I can think of.
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The other alternative that works in favor of fuel cells is setting up dedicated refueling at A-B terminals. That's probably why 800 trucks instead of 100. They are probably specced to make a dedicated delivery circuit with refueling happening at their own terminals or terminals operated by a provider that is building them to A-B needs.
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