Tesla Launch of Pick-Up

ShinerBock wrote:

Groover wrote:
"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."

Are all semis used the same way or used in the same regulatory environment? Do all semi drivers make rational decisions? I am old enough to remember how slowly some semi divers were to give up cross bar treads that were noisy and returned lower fuel economy. Now were are having some of the same fights over super singles. I don't believe that everyone in the trucking industry sees things the same way that you do and the pre-orders for electric trucks seem to be proof of that. To your point about hybrids I think that there would be tremendous benefit to trucks to go with hybrids. I know that I would like to have a hybrid drive on my DP motorhome and my next pickup. There is also a movement towards hybrid drives in mining equipment and some applications are going all electric.

Those are not the hurdles I am speaking of. Go back to my second post of this thread and you will see which ones I am speaking of which are a much bigger obstacle than objective driver opinion. Also, if you read my subsequent posts, you will see that pre-orders are a common thing in the medium/heavy duty trucking industry especially if it garners positive publicity and can be refunded.