Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly.
> Naturally companies won’t roll their truck/van fleets over right away but this pressure has potential to advance the timeline of that particular transition significantly.
Then you're just siphoning power from your transportation. With the limited-ish range on EVs[0][1], EPA estimates not being loaded down with the extra weight of equipment, and power losses due to voltage conversion I don't see this as a viable alternative...yet. Add in the cost of these vehicles being much higher than current ones[2][3] and this is most likely a non-starter for most of the affected.
[0]: F-150 Lightning is estimated at 230 miles on the regular config https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/f150-lightning/2022/
[1]: Rivian R1T is very vague throwing out an EPA estimate of 314, then mentioning 400+ or 250+ mi https://rivian.com/r1t
[2]: F-150 Lightening starts at $39,974, a standard F-150 starts at $29,290.
[3]: Rivian R1T starts at $67,500
With degraded, old batteries to match.