When I was working in a warehouse as a poor college student we drove electric forklifts inside for obvious reasons.
When the forklift went flat, you got another forklift to remove the battery and replace it with a fresh one.
Tesla tried this once and it wasn't a great success however, if you have a depo with a stack of batteries, you run a fleet of trucks, this makes a lot more sense.
It's something I'm suprised hasn't been floated as a lot of the customers for the electric trucks are fleet customers
Oh ok. Well thank you for making this prediction, that's got to be why out of all the companies that fielded Hydrogen cars all but two have now switched entirely to BEVs. We must have a different definition of disrupted.
If you know the history of disruption, you'd know that very few companies survive them. "All but two" could the list of dead companies from this, not the survivors.
Just for added advice: Toyota also makes battery powered cars alongside their hydrogen cars. Tesla however does not make hydrogen powered cars at all. So without getting into details, it's clear that Toyota knows more about how each technology stack up against each other. So for Tesla to be right on this, it means that without having any knowledge of hydrogen cars they still know that it can't work, even over a company that knows something about both.
It can be described as Toyota having both eyes open whereas Tesla is blind in one eye, but still claiming that the latter sees better.
My current gasoline car has a 500km range. If I can get 400km range on an electric car then I will just pick the car with the cheapest "fuel" costs and that's not going to be hydrogen.
There is also Hyzon, a fuel cell manufacturer that hopes to massively convert trucks to Hydrogen.