Tesla Launch of Pick-Up

Groover wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:
So inputting real world scenarios and costs into the convo is naysayer because it is not the sunshine and rainbows that you want to hear? Ya'll are doing the very same thing that you guys claim you know who is doing when he says fake news. Well, well, ya'll have something in common with him. Who 'da thunk it.....

No, you just sounded like my accountant who has problem for every solution, lol.

So what I am saying about the Tesla Semi in regards to how applicable it is in the medium/heavy duty industry and the associated cost is fake news? I didn't know I was talking to an industry expert. How may years have you been in the medium/heavy duty trucking industry?

It wasn't very long ago that "experts" were claiming that electric sports cars would never work. Now they dominate certain types of racing but not all. Some people will never buy an electric sports car because they love the engine roar and shifting gears more than going fast. Every type of racing has its own needs that have to be met. To each his own but I expect to see the same thing happen in trucks of all types. Some people will find that electric trucks meet their needs very well, some will find that they still need fossil fuel until the technology advances further and others will refuse to change because they just don't want to for personal reasons. Personally, I am going to wait until I need a vehicle and then evaluate what is out there and what best fits my needs and budget. I don't own an electric vehicle now but I have no intention becoming a Luddite either. I do expect some government entities to either outlaw ICE or just tax it out of existence. Probably not here in TN but some people will be forced to change.

I was not talking about the electric truck or electric race cars although most of the "experts" I have spoken with at the F1 races at our local COTA track have always said electric will find its way into race cars since they have been using hybrid units for a long time now. This was years before Formula E was even a thought.

My company also sponsors a NASCAR car, and even there they say electric hybrids will eventually make its way into the industry. So I am not sure if I would call those people you are referring to "experts".

However, what I am talking to Sam about is the semi truck, which is for a completely different type of customer than the pickup truck would be for. There are also different types of hurdles you have to jump through to charge a semi that requires almost twice the amount of energy an average home uses in a month to charge one truck in a short amount of time, than the hurdles of charging a car or pickup truck.