F150 Lightning Road Trip & Ike Gauntlet Pull

time2roll wrote:

rjstractor wrote:

Thermoguy wrote:
Semi trucks with EV can outperform a comparable ICE

Depends on your definition of "outperform". Compared with a conventional semi, the Freightliner eCascadia very likely accelerates faster. It may or may not climb hills faster- Freightliner's website lists HP options from 300 to 525. So probably a wash on hill climbing speeds. Tesla's website for their prototype Semi lists its speed on a 5% grade at 60 mph, which is good but not overwhelmingly so. Higher HP ICE trucks are close to that. But when it comes to doing what semi trucks actually are designed to do- move the freight hundreds of miles efficiently and productively, the electric trucks aren't close yet in performance. I say 'yet', because they will be some day. I hope you're right on the sodium ion batteries, because I don't see lithium as being sustainable once EV production expands a hundred fold.

For a commercial truck "performance" is often measured in cost per mile.

Nope.

If you produce a truck that gets $0.01/mile but it only can go 2 miles per day, trucking companies won't care to look at your truck.

A low cost per mile is only good if they can keep the miles per day high. Sitting at a truck stop waiting for batteries to charge is not making miles.