If you look at the numbers, all transport in the future will take place with track-based solutions. Anything else is not economically, energy and time justifiable. You can also see that it is possible to save large amounts of energy by carrying out the transports by rail.

Now the truck has to enter at the end and at the beginning of almost every transport relationship of goods with the railway. With automatic reloading stations, the reloading cost can be kept down to SEK 100 - 125 per handling. With close terminal location and short distribution distances, both energy and time aspects can meet a future challenge in transport and logistics.

A long-haul truck has a tank of approx. 600 litres. This corresponds to an energy content of approx. 6000 kWh. Such large batteries are not available at all for the automotive industry. They would also cost enormously and be extremely heavy. If you use Tesla as a comparison, battery 100 KWh, weight 625 kg. In this case, there would be 60 batteries, which would not have room and also weigh 37.5 tons, which is completely impossible. The vehicle is completely undriveable.

The solution that is now advocated from the truck side is that the truck should be able to be driven for 3 or 4 hours, with an interruption of 45 minutes for rapid charging. This is of course to keep the weight of the heavy batteries down. Will of course not work for medium-long transports. It can work within a distribution distance that can be accommodated within the time 3 to 4 hours/2 ie the truck has to return as well. In the future, trucks will be located in distribution traffic only. You can also see that it is possible to save large amounts of energy by carrying out large parts of the transports by rail. (consumption for the railway figure 1.2 in comparison with road-bound vehicles 35 – 75).

Now almost every transport relationship of goods by rail, at the beginning and at the end, must be carried out by trucks (distribution vehicles) to get to individual customers. With automatic reloading stations, the reloading cost can be kept down to SEK 100 - 125 per handling of the unit load container. With close terminal location and short distribution distances, both energy and time aspects can be optimized and meet a future challenge in transport and logistics. Trucks can't, even if they're electric.

Even if there were to be a fantastic development on the battery side, it will always remain: it is at least 15 times more expensive in terms of energy to transport goods with wheeled vehicles. It is time to realize that the truck as a means of transporting goods, for medium and long hauls, is not an option in the future, whether they are called Volvo, Scania, Mercedes but also the now developed modern alternatives such as Einride.

In addition, there remains the great environmental nuisance that exists with wheeled vehicles that negatively affect humans, for example the very small rubber particles that come from tire wear and that result in a large number of people's premature deaths per year.

Future freight transport structure.
How will the future transport structure develop in consideration of the fact that the truck cannot participate in medium- and long-distance transports, which is explained above and is completely unfeasible. We are facing a major change in the future transport structure. The only thing that will work is for all the long-distance transport of goods to be transferred to rail transport. In consideration of the electrification that is to be carried out, the future transports should be set up as intermodal transports and that it is only handled by the unit load container. At the same time, it would provide opportunities to implement that the traffic takes place according to an efficient route layout and not, as now, end-point traffic.

Several smaller terminals with the distance between the terminals of 15 miles, which means that there are opportunities to carry out the distribution with the help of electrically driven distribution vehicles. A finely meshed and efficient transport network that can meet the higher requirements for low energy consumption and low CO2 emissions. The environmental requirements for a future structure are met. This will of course require an expansion of the existing railway network. There really isn't any other option.

Don't let the truck mafia influence the expansion of the electricity grid, it's completely unnecessary

To sum up, the authorities would not achieve the extensive expansion of the electrical grid that is requested from the truck manufacturers. Instead, the authorities would make sure to greatly expand the possibilities of transferring goods transport to become rail-bound. In this way, a smooth transition to truly energy and environmentally efficient transport would be achieved.