Is this the future for Class A's?

Bumpyroad wrote:

Chainwright wrote:

Chainwright wrote:
Same Negativity, Pessimism and narrow minded speculation as with the Prius and Nissan leaf when they first came out. But look at them now, 1/3 the market is hybrids and EVs. My mother in law is 95. She tells me about all the BS they were talking about the model T when it came out. Look at Ford now. I'm glad so many folks here got it all figured out. With that kind of pessimistic know it all we won't get anywhere. LOL.

Tesla's new Truck:
the specs are:
By itself. 0 - 60 mph in 5 secs
With 80.000 max load trailer 0 -60 in 20 seconds.
65 MPH full rated load at 5 percent grade
500 mile range rated load.
Charges 400 miles in 30 minutes.
1 million mile warranty.
Never needs brake pads.
Available 2019. There are two sizes.
battery pack specs for 400-500 mile range, rough capacity of 1,000 kWh
megachargers will be available adding 400 miles of range on the Tesla Semi in just 30 minutes.
Experts are speculating on a price tag of around $250,000 (slap a cabin on it for $150k and $50k to put the Newmar or Fleetwood or Winnebago name on it and you got a coach for $450K. And if you think $250 is to cheap well hey double it and make it $500K then $200k in additions plus the name, now you got a MH for 750K, still less then a King Aire, Prevost or Newell, just to name a few.)

do you have an app available that shows charging stations for this across the country, how about out in nowheresville Nevada?
but if they can actually build such a thing, why is the battery system not in use for Normal cars etc. NOW which would have to have a 1,000 mile range?
bumpy

Good morning Bumpy. If you are talking about an App for electric vehicles like cars there are 6 or 7 apps but most are provider specific. SO for example chargepoint shows there chargers. Flo shows there chargers etc. There is one App that many of use called plugshare. It is crowd sourced and covers all suppliers including Tesla. You filter out what you don't want to see so it isn't as cluttered. So for example if you are on a monthly plan with a provider, (some are 19.95 for all the power you need) then you only want to look at them. If you bought a Nissan Leaf and want to see only the free fast charge sites from them then that is what you set it to do. Its handy. Here is a link. There are new sites showing up literally everyday. And of course remember most do 90 percent of their charging at home in their driveway at night.

https://www.plugshare.com/

Size and weight and cost are what stop these battery packs in all EV's. A bolt has a 60 KWH pack and costs 37000. A Leaf (standard) has a 40 KWH pack and costs 30,000. You get the idea.

Hope that helps Bumpy. Have great day.

John