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@Tfmonkey Electric trucks don't make sense even with a hotswap battery. Tesla's semi-truck's total weight is 33% heavier empty than a diesel truck. Thats 33% less products being shipped per truckload, which means 33% more labor, 33% more trucks, more overhead, etc. This is because a truck can't legally weigh more than 80k pounds.
All hydrocarbons get most of their energy from their hydrogen content, the carbon is just there to make it chemically stable. Synthetic hydrocarbons are GOAT'ed.
@Tfmonkey I would also like to add that the problem with hydrogen isn't that it takes heavy tanks to store (you're thinking of methane/natural gas). The problem is that hydrogen can't even be stored in a tank at all (it literally passivates through any material). So you need to store the hydrogen in materials called hydrides. The problem is that all the hydrides that actually work well are illegal because they are critical components to thermonuclear bombs thus are ITAR materials.