This man ends any argument on the subject
There’s nowhere near enough power on the grid to convert the U.S. truck fleet to battery electric.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCoAsPtgRKg&pp=ygUaRWxlY3RyaWMgdHJ1Y2tzIHBvd2VyIGdyaWQ%3D
“ One fleet tried to electrify just 30 trucks at a terminal in Joliet, Illinois. Local officials shut those plans down, saying that would draw more electricity than is needed to power the entire city.
Another California company tried to electrify 12 forklifts. Not trucks, but forklifts. Local power utilities told them that’s not possible.”
I would say the expert misspoke. Joliet is a town of around 150K. The town consumes giga watts of power per day, not a few mega watts. Tesla has some large supercharging stations in California that would rival what the trucking company wanted to do. I am more inclined to think the trucking firm’s problem is an infrastructure problem. It is just not cost effective to wire up that much power where the trucking company is located.
That said, a few mega watts here and there add up to giga watts..