re: Tesla Semi could be ‘the biggest catalyst in trucking in decades’

Another major issue is weight restrictions on roads. There is a reason every state has weigh stations and weight restrictions on trucks. As long as there have been trucks, there's been the issue of trying to limit the overall weight of the truck itself so it can haul that much more freight while staying under legal weight restrictions.

If you go adding electric trucks to the market, you have to factor in the weight of the batteries an electric truck would require to make it an economically feesable alternative to a diesel powered truck. The heavier the batteries, the less freight that truck could haul.