Tesla semi truck goes 500 miles with 81,000# load....
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Ill bet the lights dim when they plug that thing into the grid. That is just trading burning diesel for burning coal.
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Warehouse roofs are huge and seem like the perfect place for solar except when it is hazardous.
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Night time off peak charging sounds great unless the truck is expected to be driving at night.
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Night time off peak charging sounds great unless the truck is expected to be driving at night.
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Yeah, all you need is a mega $1,235,890 to buy a Megapack.
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Did they opt for the trailer hitch for the generator trailer ?
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I hope it's a big generator.
81,000 pounds is not the load but the gross and I believe they had to get a special exemption to exceed that 80,000 pound limit on 5 axle tractor trailers. The net is what makes money. A typical 5 axle semi truck and trailer can haul around 45,000 payload.
81,000 pounds is not the load but the gross and I believe they had to get a special exemption to exceed that 80,000 pound limit on 5 axle tractor trailers. The net is what makes money. A typical 5 axle semi truck and trailer can haul around 45,000 payload.
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I worked at a potato farm straight out of highschool, night shift, I was the lucky guy who would run the hydraulic dumper for the bulk potatoes in trailers, looked a lot like this: One time we had a driver come in at 110,000. We dumped his load...but smarter and wiser now I think I would have refusedgaw wrote: ↑Fri. Dec. 02, 2022 1:20 pmI hope it's a big generator.
81,000 pounds is not the load but the gross and I believe they had to get a special exemption to exceed that 80,000 pound limit on 5 axle tractor trailers. The net is what makes money. A typical 5 axle semi truck and trailer can haul around 45,000 payload.
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Probably in a small town that shares its name with the capital city of California.Retro_Origin wrote: ↑Fri. Dec. 02, 2022 5:05 pmI worked at a potato farm straight out of highschool, night shift, I was the lucky guy who would run the hydraulic dumper for the bulk potatoes in trailers, looked a lot like this:
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One time we had a driver come in at 110,000. We dumped his load...but smarter and wiser now I think I would have refused
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How many miles do these go on 70% charge? The amount of time the battery charges to 70% is supposedly 30 minutes. how long to 80%? 90% 100% 500 miles sounds great on paper but if it takes several hours to get to 100% how is freight going to move? When there are two drivers in the truck they run a lot more hours in a day.
How do you tow a dead tesla semi? the tesla cars are hard to tow, this is larger.
What about battery fires?
What about the weight and the added impact to our interstates?
What about taxing the road tax?
how much more than a diesel truck do these cost?
Where you going to charge them?
How do you tow a dead tesla semi? the tesla cars are hard to tow, this is larger.
What about battery fires?
What about the weight and the added impact to our interstates?
What about taxing the road tax?
how much more than a diesel truck do these cost?
Where you going to charge them?
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If Pepsi got the first one, my guess is they are only using it on a specific route where there is a charger on each end and maybe in between. I'd be curious to see the route and the results.lincolnmania wrote: ↑Fri. Dec. 02, 2022 10:52 pmHow many miles do these go on 70% charge? The amount of time the battery charges to 70% is supposedly 30 minutes. how long to 80%? 90% 100% 500 miles sounds great on paper but if it takes several hours to get to 100% how is freight going to move? When there are two drivers in the truck they run a lot more hours in a day.
How do you tow a dead tesla semi? the tesla cars are hard to tow, this is larger.
What about battery fires?
What about the weight and the added impact to our interstates?
What about taxing the road tax?
how much more than a diesel truck do these cost?
Where you going to charge them?
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The battery size of the Tesla semi is almost 900 kwh. A Tesla car has about 50 to 100 kwh battery. If it takes over 10,000 gallons of water to put a Tesla car fire out imagine how fantastic a show when the first semi goes up in flames. If it takes a fleet of trucks or a warehouse with it it could be the end of the line for the Tesla semi. We shall see how disruptive this technology will be and in what ways.
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