Good news... dreaming of BEV Class A
Report of Tesla coming up with million miles battery. Truckers and haulers can start dreaming too. Alternative title: How to tick off EV naysayers. Brickbats, incoming! Tesla's Millione M...
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Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Report was 500 miles on 75,000 lbs (80,000 lbs capacity). It's not independently verified though as it's Tesla's own tests.
Considering 80,000lb is the legal limit in most states and the battery pack will run around 15-20,000lb (that's in addition to the weight of the truck), you are looking at a lot less cargo capacity and trucking companies sell cargo capacity not total weight.
Of course, we also need to know, the speed that is based on. A truck going to the road at freeway speeds is mostly using power to overcome wind resistance. For a city bus that rarely gets over 35mph, wind resistance is pretty minimal. For an RV cruising at 70mph, it may have drastically less range.
