MRC - Container-Transporter

[Niceyard]

Oh, that's so great! I like Your ideas, Mike.
We have to realize them all someday.

Keep in mind, that there is no central engine somewhere in the vehicle. The electric engines are inside the wheels or between them.
The mentioned housing could be a place for the batteries. Perhaps even without housing for shorter exchange times.

Transporters return to their homebase from the MRC mission. The containers are loaded into some freight ship or other long range transporter. Empty batteries are changed for charged ones. A new driver gets on board and on it goes to the next mission.

[Mike Hungerford]

Oh, that's so great! I like Your ideas, Mike.
We have to realize them all someday.

Keep in mind, that there is no central engine somewhere in the vehicle. The electric engines are inside the wheels or between them.
The mentioned housing could be a place for the batteries. Perhaps even without housing for shorter exchange times.

Transporters return to their homebase from the MRC mission. The containers are loaded into some freight ship or other long range transporter. Empty batteries are changed for charged ones. A new driver gets on board and on it goes to the next mission.

Battery compartment it is, then. :-)

The containers themselves could be batteries ...

[Felix]

[…] The containers are loaded into some freight ship or other long range transporter. […]

Maybe something like this interesting modular railway system:
http://nbp-www.upb.de/index.php?id=30&L=1

[Niceyard]

Yes, exactly!
For low speed transport this seems to be good, but they have to be guarded.
There are also enclosed high speed vacuum tubes or air freight cargo lifters.

[Felix]

Well, those cabs are considered to reach 160 km/h (100 mph) …

What do you mean, guarded? Do they have to be escorted by armed and manned cabs?

[Niceyard]

Guarded means, that someone has to assure that the train reaches his destination while travelling because many land areas are not secure or even controlled by outlaw gangs.

[Mike Hungerford]

For some reason, I thought we were working on an uninhabited planet, human civilization having moved elsewhere. :-)

[Niceyard]

Uh, no, earth has about 12 billion inhabitants. But most of them live in very big cities called megaplexes.
The Rest (about 1 or 2 billions) lives on the land more or less as outlaws.

[Mike Hungerford]

So we don't get any smarter, eh?

[Niceyard]

I didn't want to destroy ideas. I like the train.
The security could be armed cabs, as Felix said.
But it don't have to be. It could be quadcopters like your RPV lifter, too.