Tesla truck running on diesel. Alot more to come

That is a very symbolic video, as diesel comes to the rescue.

 

About 12 years ago we left all the trucks (about 35-40 units) running in the yard over Christmas. After Christmas break we sent a couple drivers to simply just drive them across the industrial park to the cardlock to refuel them. One driver got about halfway and ran out of fuel, stalled in the right lane. I peeled out there in a pickup with a slip tank and dumped about 50 litres in the one tank I could reach without totally blocking the road, hit the hand primer a couple hundred times and away he went. That luxury simply just does not exist with electric vehicles.

I'd like to see how well these batteries will hold up to sitting out in -35 for a week or two. 35 below might seem extreme but that's the norm in these parts for a couple months a year, not like we can avoid it.

 

Pretty much this. I live in SD its not unusual to hit 30 below. Honestly electric is not ready to take over the job of diesel yet. But the idiots who peddle that trash get huge kickbacks so it will be pushed. Which is sad because electic is actully awsome from a engineering standpoint and id love to see it succeed.

But from a practical and honest enviromental one this is only going to duct tape the baby to the inside of a dryer full of bricks run off a jet turbine in the long run. Especially when people figure out just how much worse all those nice safe batterys are then oil to the enviroment.

 

common guys, its progress, evolution.
There could be a 100 reasons why its under tow. I don't think much of Elon, but I imagine Gen 1 of anything didn't fly faultlessly from take off.

You guys prefer a wind up watch over a digital quartz battery one?
You still prefer a pay phone to do business, or one on the wall at home with an answering machine attached?

yes a diesel truck is better than a horse and cart, but welcome change rather than bag it. Change is inevitable.

 

Not all change is good change. And yes i do prefer older things because usually THEY ####ING WORK. Want me to buy your #### then prove it works legislating barely functional garbage that drains my wallet while enriching them down my throat doesnt make me want more of that new stuff it makes me want to hoist the guys who thought it was a good idea high up and watch them dance.

 

I'm all for the electric revolution but in all reality it isn't gonna happen in my lifetime, the grid alone is the biggest hurdle, add in the fact that the mining that has to happen for the batteries is ten times worse for the environment than a diesel truck. Get past those 2 giant hurdles and years and years of testing and changing how Americans consume stuff and expect same day delivery on just about everything it might be able to come into fruition

 

Remember when car phone first came about. Only wankers and dick heads had them, but they had some appeal over the pay phone. They also didn't work everywhere. Then mobile brick phone arrived with the man bag battery pack. Only the rich had them, but kind of indicated freedom and what's possible. Then Nokia and Motorola came to the fore and the market pretty quickly took on this new liberating technology. No on made you buy one, just if you wanted to keep up or liked the possibilities, you bought one. Then Apple changed the game with the smart phone. Well until whats next comes along.

Think electric truck and cars are not all that different. Think Elon's truck is no more than a car phone to be honest. We are a long way from where its going to finish. Just in 2022 we feel modern and current, but EV's are just starting out.

 

The thing is everybody did not put away their horse and buggy before anyone figured out how diesel engine worked.

I'm all for new technology if it actually is new technology. We're not there yet.

Apparently nobody knows how to get rid of the batteries and they are an ecological nightmare. The minerals for the batteries are all mined in countries that are developing countries and they have no restriction on pollution whatsoever.

And most electricity is reliably driven by fossil fuels. So if you increase electricity usage you are increasing the usage of... fossil fuels.

In the end, it's a shell game of moving things around but nothing has really changed, and honestly if they get their way of having all electric vehicles it might even be worse for the environment.