When will oil engines be banned in Australia, page-262

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    IMO it will be quite a while until HD (B-Double) trucks are
    EVs because:
    -the weight of an EV car battery is about 500 kgs-half a ton) with a GVM of say 2 ton
    -a B-Double has a GCM of 65 ton
    -scaled up that would mean a truck battery of nearly 30 ton to give a similar kms range to an EV car.

    For this reason, HD trucks will have to go hydrogen to go green, IMO, and sacrifice about half a ton payload in the process.
 
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