Jun 26, 2021
Freightliner eCascadia offers up to 250 miles of range with lithium-ion battery packs. Solid-state batteries, which remain in development, can offer roughly twice the energy density in a much lighter and non-flammable package. Should fleets wait four or five years for solid-state to hit the market? Or is the push for zero emissions so strong that waiting around for better and safer tech no longer an option?
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Super VHS, Super BETA, laser disc…these were relatively short-lived video platforms that were replaced quickly by DVDs in the 1990s.
While they were a nice improvement over the typical video resolution of 240 horizontal lines, they clearly lacked the sharper resolution, compact size and shelf-life of DVDs.