Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

[8_1_Van]

Everything We Know About Tesla's Semi Truck

I wonder what the range is ?

[Grit_dog]

8.1 Van wrote:

NHRA's new Street Legal EV class will make its championship debut at the NHRA Summit Racing Series National Championships at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The entry list includes eight drivers in Street Legal EV across each of the seven NHRA divisions, marking a highly successful first year for the new class.

NHRA

How they get around the NHRA equipment requirements? Or are most of these Teslas cut open and roll cages installed? (Behind the tinted windows of course)
Because surely they're fast enough to be in the cage categories.

[8_1_Van]

The long-awaited Tesla Semi was recently spotted in Silver Springs, not far from the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada.

This time, the Semi - with a trailer attached - was seen stopping at a roundabout and then accelerating effortlessly - quickly, smoothly and silently, which looks a bit unrealistic, especially when compared to ordinary diesel trucks.

Let's recall that the Tesla Semi is promised to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph (96.5 km/h) in 20 seconds (when fully loaded).

However, there is no info on whether the trailer shown in the video, shared by Zanegler @HinrichsZane, was full or empty.

link

[Yosemite_Sam1]

Sorry, no photo. I won't pull my camera phone on that scary zig zag.

Anyway, saw a Tesla semi obviously pulling a cargo up at the I-80 Sparks-Reno-Truckee corridor.

Thinking out loud, if this is still in test, this is the best way to do it with the brutal Donner Summit climb and the chilly Tahoe weather.

I also noticed some a large graffiti already on the sides.

Must be some EV haters which my daughter and son-in-law often encounter along these roadways while driving their Teslas.

[8_1_Van]

NHRA's new Street Legal EV class will make its championship debut at the NHRA Summit Racing Series National Championships at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The entry list includes eight drivers in Street Legal EV across each of the seven NHRA divisions, marking a highly successful first year for the new class.

NHRA

[8_1_Van]

Same starting point and end point. Tesla arrived in 26 minutes while Cruise arrived in 40 minutes. Tesla originally wanted to take the highway and get there in 18 minutes but I tried to force it not to take the highway to create a more fair matchup with more similar routes.

video

[free_radical]

pianotuna wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:


Wow, interesting article. I think most if not all manufactures are going to go to "hands at the ready" way of self driving.

150,000 trips without problems.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/driverless-grocery-delivery-trucks-now-in-toronto-1.6097451

I do agree that self driving is some time in the future.

So were telephones once upon a time.

Self driving may work in good weather,in snow probably not too well.
Stil its nice to see what crazy tech people come up with.
Self driving taxi china
https://youtu.be/Vg5zzzgVLi8

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

pianotuna wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:


Wow, interesting article. I think most if not all manufactures are going to go to "hands at the ready" way of self driving.

150,000 trips without problems.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/driverless-grocery-delivery-trucks-now-in-toronto-1.6097451

I do agree that self driving is some time in the future.

So were telephones once upon a time.

Interesting that they didn't tell us how many times the "safety driver" "saved" the "DRIVER LESS" delivery trucks. LMAO

Tusk now says 2024 Time. LOL

[time2roll]

Ford recently abandoned the in house self driving development plan.

https://www.wired.com/story/ford-abandons-the-self-driving-road-to-nowhere/

I believe Tesla has a better shot at self driving than success at the metaverse company. Still going to be years away IMO.

[pianotuna]

Turtle n Peeps wrote:


Wow, interesting article. I think most if not all manufactures are going to go to "hands at the ready" way of self driving.

150,000 trips without problems.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/driverless-grocery-delivery-trucks-now-in-toronto-1.6097451

I do agree that self driving is some time in the future.

So were telephones once upon a time.

[8_1_Van]

[time2roll]

I hope this Chief Twit deal does not turn into a Kanye moment.

Semi still seems on track for December.

[Turtle_n_Peeps]

Pbutler97 wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:


Well that's not good: Tusk says Tesla is worth zero.
Maybe the dude finally told the truth for once?

ARGO

The AI / self driving aspect is not ending well for these folks. I have a project in Pittsburgh a few blocks from where these folks are based. I get there twice a month usually and have seen plenty of the test vehicles in minor fender benders, and a few times in more than what would be considered minor crashes.

Wow, interesting article. I think most if not all manufactures are going to go to "hands at the ready" way of self driving. This Robotaxi garbage is just that, garbage. It's always 2 years away. Tusk announced a few months ago that the Robotaxi was going to happen in 2024....for sure. LOL Self driving cars going nowhere. No wonder pickups cost 100 grand now days. They have to pay for the 100 billion they through down the toilet.

The Twitter deal is super funny!! I bet there will be a rash of Tesla fan boi owners talking trash about their Tesla's now. Tusk even had to move out of Kalifornia because his employees were demanding a safe place to recover when someone yelled at them at work.

You can't make this stuff up!!! Thanks for the links and good laugh this morning!!

[Grit_dog]

free radical wrote:
Finaly a serious Tesla chalenger 🙂

https://youtu.be/SO2Li9BMQp8

Hell yeah!

[Pbutler97]

Pbutler97 wrote:






I am starting to really like the "Chief-Twit", let that "sink" in ROFLMAO. I might buy a Tesla now (used). You're probably going to have a whole gaggle of pansyasses dumping them today due to butthurt feelings. They're gonna need a long timeout in the safe space to deal with this LOL.



"The top executives were hastily escorted out of the company’s San Francisco headquarters." - (source, The Washington Post, link in the article) hilarious.


YS, are you canceling the Cybertruck reservation?

(Need a good laugh? The comments below the article are to die for)

LOL, and it gets better by the second.

"This is an emergency! Twitter is to be taken over by the evil Sith lord."

[Pbutler97]

Turtle n Peeps wrote:


Well that's not good: Tusk says Tesla is worth zero.
Maybe the dude finally told the truth for once?

ARGO

The AI / self driving aspect is not ending well for these folks. I have a project in Pittsburgh a few blocks from where these folks are based. I get there twice a month usually and have seen plenty of the test vehicles in minor fender benders, and a few times in more than what would be considered minor crashes.