Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

rjstractor wrote:
Another silly stunt that has no real practical value IMO. It takes 18 of those rolled up panels to charge the car, each one nearly 60 feet long. Cut six feet of the end and you could put two on top of a 53 foot trailer. Is the driver going to stop and roll out the other 16 in the middle of the parking lot when its time for a charge? The way to solve the Tesla Semi's range problem and make it productive for OTR trucking lies in figuring out how to pack enough battery on board to give it an honest 1000 mile range without sacrificing payload. That, or engineer a battery system that can be rapidly swapped.

I don’t know. Might be a regional thing. A lot of semi’s do depot to depot ops here. Anywhere from 400 to 600 kilometres. I think they would be well suited to that.

Jmho.