The Economic Feasibility of Battery Electric Trucks: A Review of the Total Cost of Ownership Estimates
This paper reviews the existing studies employing total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to evaluate the comparative economic viability of battery electric trucks (BETs) and diesel trucks (DTs).A key finding is that until recent years, BETs have not been cost-competitive with DTs.Light-duty trucks and medium-duty trucks started to become competitiv