Janus swaps batteries in 4 minutes.
600km range.
100 ton truck.
1/3 the price per km.
What's not to love?

SBS World News
https://youtu.be/4rAKqch3oMQ

https://thedriven.io/2022/02/10/janus-unveils-first-electric-truck-for-australian-east-coast-battery-swap-route/

Seriously, I guess Denier's gotta deny?

What's not to love?
Max Green,
The production of these batteries is way more polluting the emission from diesel engines !
So, what's to love there ?

Hey Max Green,

It seems like a positive development.
We've got a big country and the only way to make ourselves more competitive in global markets is to lower the cost of transport, energy or wages.

Greenies aren't exactly helping with shutting down coal plants etc.
The cost of energy isn't going to come down in a hurry, and cutting wages wouldn't be popular.

Lowering transport costs could help to lower the cost of living as all food and domestic goods we buy are transported on trucks;
- So even the person who can't afford a 60k Tesla stands to potentially benefit from this.

I just hope they're not too quiet that you can't hear them coming.
I don't want to see young people on mobile phones listening to music with earphones in and not paying attention (as they do) getting cleaned up.

Also hope none of the lithium batteries catch fire;
Trucks aren't cheap and the increased expense would defeat the purpose.
- Reducing diesel emissions on our roads wouldn't be a bad thing I suppose.

Is OLO doing advertorials now?

The trouble with these type of advertisements masquerading as straight news stories is that some people fall for them.

BTW in a totally unrelated saga, did you know that Chesterfield really is the perfect Christmas gift....
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Of course ANYTHING that reduces pollution is more than welcome however, when you cause an increase in pollution in order to produce commodities that achieve far less a reduction in pollution during usage, then there really is no point !
What we could do is to curb the usage of highly polluting commodities such as cosmetics, packaging, frivolous travel etc. Cutting back on such industries would reduce pollution far more effectively than polluting the environment & minds by the smoke-screen tactics used presently.
Does anyone have access to figures on research pollution ? My bet is no ! What about the destruction of the marine environment via "Sport" fishing ?
There's no way around it, the number of humans needs to come down by way of pregnancy prevention. Refugee intake is also not helping because it is their goal to out-breed the host Nation as ordered by religion !
Building batteries that require 80 or more tonnes of ground dug up & power & chemicals etc is not the right kind of progress to save the environment. Getting rid or rather reducing the cause is what's required to bring back some balance ! In other words, sustainability !

Sounds good, but will only be put to the test "within months" starting next year. It might help the editor of the website feel better about his purchase of a Tesla, too.

At the moment it is pretty much 'so what'? We've heard it all before. Having to change a bloody great battery en route sounds bizarre. What they save against diesel (which will not be passed on to customers) will be offset against extral labour costs and equipment, and the possibility of something extra going wrong.

Not a lot to get excited about.