Tesla Launch of Pick-Up

ksss wrote:

ShinerBock wrote:

NJRVer wrote:

Your city's power company must be pretty backwards.
Go into any area of population and all you have to do is look up at the poles and see the lines that are run. In NJ the power companies keep up with development. Large power hog coming in, power company makes sure they can handle it. If not they will be stringing more cable on the poles. Not unusual to see 6 lines on one pole around here with all the development. This is just the regular wooden telephone pole on the side of the road, not the high tension towers.

Compare that to rural NC where I own property and there is one strand of wire on a telephone pole that is about 30% smaller than the poles here in NJ and the one wire on that pole looks like a piece of Romex.
Not going to run very many MegaChargers off that line.

Apparently my cities utility is not alone.....

Vast Majority of Utilities Just Beginning to Cope With EV Growth

If they don't have plans to handle EV cars in just 10-15 years, then how can they also handle EV semi's as well?

This was my point, pickups and trucks will take a lot of juice to charge and the grid is not set up to handle that kind of draw.

Where do you think they are drawing when they travel from California to New York. Or from coast-to-coast in the West?

And if so, why can't it be replicated all over the US of A?

Tell me from this map where it will not work?

https://www.tesla.com/destination-charging