Tesla electric trucks

[spock123]

Tesla just announced today about a battery operated truck. Tesla says it can tow 80,000 lbs and go 500 miles without charging. Maybe it it won’t be long before I can buy a smaller truck to pull my camper, all with batteries. If course Tesla could put that power plant in a big class A now.

[Oaklevel]

I'd need to wait about 20 years for the price to come down to where I could afford one........... I bet the batteries(s) alone cost more than my truck.......

[marinerjoe]

I saw on the news that the batteries alone were over $100,000.

[Hersbird]

And on a standard RV outlet, only take a week to recharge. Over 1000000 watt hours, the equivalent of 1000 standard 12 volt deep cycles.

[aceinspp]

Been awhile but Walmart has been testing battery power trucks. Later RJD

[Flybob]

You're probably going to have to shut the microwave off when you charge the truck at a 30A pedestal.

[Cypressloser]

I can't imagine the additional draw on the power grid with more than a handful of them around.

[rsdata]

It always takes decades for road infrastructure to catch up with the demand of the vehicle traffic... I wonder if the electrical grid will also take decades to be up to the task of powering a generation of "electric vehicles"... especially when it takes decades just to get approval of new power plants... Of course we could fill up the farm fields of OHIO with solar panels... and pray for sunshine

[arter368rlbhk]

Originally Posted by rsdata

It always takes decades for road infrastructure to catch up with the demand of the vehicle traffic... I wonder if the electrical grid will also take decades to be up to the task of powering a generation of "electric vehicles"... especially when it takes decades just to get approval of new power plants... Of course we could fill up the farm fields of OHIO with solar panels... and pray for sunshine

Don't say that with a mouth full of food lol
They aren't going to use my Ohio farm fields!!

[rsdata]

Don't say that with a mouth full of food lol
They aren't going to use my Ohio farm fields!!

just trying to show how ridiculous this whole electric car stuff is...

the electric grid in many areas is stretched to the limit
add hundreds of battery chargers per square mile in suburban areas and that should put us all back into the candle power age like the 1800's, especially with coal now just about locked out of the equation

don't start me on how much pollution is created in the manufacture of Li-Ion batteries...

[NMWildcat]

Originally Posted by rsdata

just trying to show how ridiculous this whole electric car stuff is...

Funny, that's what my Grandpa said all his horse riding family had to say about the first gas engine car they saw

[Evo2700]

Tesla's production costs are so high that they would be out of business if it wasn't for all the government subsidies they get. The reality is that we will probably not convert to fully electric transportation in our lifetime. When looking at the big picture, oil based fuel is relatively cheap.

[Capt. Mike]

Originally Posted by aceinspp

Been awhile but Walmart has been testing battery power trucks. Later RJD

Walmart announced today that they have pre-ordered 15 Tesla all-electric tractor-trailers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...ers/ar-BBF5MuO

[elind]

Frito Lay has been running 24' electric box trucks daily with a range of 185 miles/ day for years now and it could only have gotten better

[Capt. Mike]

Originally Posted by spock123

Tesla just announced today about a battery operated truck. Tesla says it can tow 80,000 lbs and go 500 miles without charging. Maybe it it won’t be long before I can buy a smaller truck to pull my camper, all with batteries. If course Tesla could put that power plant in a big class A now.

Blue Bird - which once, by the way, manufactured a luxury class A coach called the Wander-Lodge - recently unveiled an all-electric chassis for it's type D school bus (the big, flat-front bus that looks like a city transit bus). The advantage of alternative fuels or electric in a school bus, however, is that it runs 2 to 3 hours in the morning, sits in the middle of the day, and then runs 2 to 3 hours in the afternoons. It can be re-fueled or re-charged mid-day between routes. At the unveiling, Blue Bird said the expected range, initially, will be 80 to 100 miles between charges - ideal for a school bus operation.

[Oaklevel]

Originally Posted by Capt. Mike

Blue Bird - which once, by the way, manufactured a luxury class A coach called the Wander-Lodge - recently unveiled an all-electric chassis for it's type D school bus (the big, flat-front bus that looks like a city transit bus). The advantage of alternative fuels or electric in a school bus, however, is that it runs 2 to 3 hours in the morning, sits in the middle of the day, and then runs 2 to 3 hours in the afternoons. It can be re-fueled or re-charged mid-day between routes. At the unveiling, Blue Bird said the expected range, initially, will be 80 to 100 miles between charges - ideal for a school bus operation.

It will be a long time before this area could catch up. Especially the costs...... many schools in this area still burn coal to heat with.................

[uhduh camping]

Fully loaded 80K has 0-65 mph in 20 seconds is quite impressive. Let's go racing boys!

[DDC]

Originally Posted by NMWildcat

Funny, that's what my Grandpa said all his horse riding family had to say about the first gas engine car they saw

Yes, if you look back many quotes are available that horses could never be replaced. There is always lots of resistance to change good or bad, electrically powered vehicles are not a new idea it’s the constant and exponential battery techknowledgey that is making all the difference now. I think the most notable thing in this is the ability to top up the batteries in thirty minutes, as this keeps improving electric vehicles will be mainstream. How long who knows.

[Hersbird]

It's all about batteries, when batteries can store energy like a gallon of gasoline they will have something. As long as we have gas we gave the perfect energy source for mobile applications.

[spock123]

I think unfortunately gas engines are on the way out, it will take awhile but electrical powered vehicles is coming. Solar farms are growing like corn around my house, more than 500 acres was put in just around my house. The landowners are getting between $1,000.00 and $1200 dollars a acre for a 25 year lease. Everywhere you look now is solar farms. Even towns are getting in on the bonanza, a thousand bucks a year for 25 years is hard to pass up. Who would ever have thought 125 years ago that trucks would be pulling horses down the road. About the only thing that will slow it up is if the people that’s drilling for oil drive the cost down to twenty bucks a barrel. But that will only be a blimp