I just took a road trip from boston to tennessee and back. The whole way I was thinking about all the trucks and how the entire ecosystem of shipping is going to be changed over the next 20 years or so. There will be little need for drivers except for the local short hauls, service stations will have to change, ...
Think back and how not so long ago there were no internet connected phones with navigation apps, no google street maps, no wi-fi at most hotels and businesses. Change is accellerating.
Yup. There will be little need for drivers of long-haul electric trucks that will be able to automatically change battery packs every few hundred miles. Battery-pack changing will be the new 'service-stations.'
Electric vehicles use seven time more copper than do gasoline cars...there's money to be made there somehow.