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Those improvements are presently not done because of cost. Grid electricity is a lot cheaper than diesel.

I guess electric trucks would still put a lot more effort into avoiding air resistance because of the lower energy per unit mass of batteries (the aerodynamic improvements can be pretty directly traded for either range or cargo capacity).

I think present day solar cells are a combination of too expensive and too heavy to bother with. That could change in the future.




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