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Grit dog wrote:
8.1 Van wrote:
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They assemble tractors with a functional trailer attached?
What am I missing?
Yes, that is a doctored image. From the reflection on the side of the truck and trailer, you can tell they took the pick from a truck driving down the road and does not show the glare of the lights up above. They definitely would not have a trailer hooked up on the assembly line(I have been to several semi-truck assembly lines in my career). The lights of the truck would not be on while on the assembly line. The brakes and calipers are NOT from a class-8 semi-truck. You can tell buy what looks like Isuzu or UD cabovers chassis on the automated vehicle dollies in the back ground that it is a plant for these vehicles and not a Tesla plant.
It is stiff like this, which I mentioned in the Lightning truck thread, is part of the reason why it is so hard to take hard core EV'ers seriously. Anyone who looks at the image for more than 30 seconds can tell it is fake. 8.1 Van, if you want anyone to take you seriously or want to pull more people to your cause, then I would recommend doing a better job of vetting this kind of fake news.8.1 Van wrote:
Grit dog wrote:
8.1 Van wrote:
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They assemble tractors with a functional trailer attached?
What am I missing?
It has plates on and looks like a Tesla Service Center.
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Uhh ok, lol.
On both accounts. One is a Photoshop and the other is apparently a dude handing out ice cream? at a construction site...time2roll wrote:
rjstractor wrote:
All things equal, a trucker will drive about 55 to 60 miles per hour. At the end of the 11-hour driving shift, this amounts to 605 to 650 miles per day. Then it is 10 hours of rest.
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 think Tesla is aiming for the market of multi driver teams. If the load is priority continuous then a fully charged tractor and fresh driver would need to swap the trailer. In the mean time saving $1,000 per week in fuel. That company with 100 trucks saving $100,000 per week will be able to make some accommodations. Crazy to think with 100 trucks running, every two weeks a truck is paid for in fuel savings.
Except for that one little thing...a ready and waiting freshly charged battery powered tractor and spare cab lizard acting as a chase team to pick up the load wherever driver #1 ends up having to stop for the day.
