Who is ordering their tesla semi truck

Can’t find parking right now, not enough spots in the right places. How are all these things going to charge up. Maybe it will solve parking issues?

 

Charging costs at home aren't that bad if you set it up to charge off-peak over night. I don't have a Tesla, but others at work do. One of the guys drove 3600KM back and forth to work last month and it cost him $85. I drove just over 5000KM for the month and it cost me $575 for the month in fuel, in a Honda Civic. The savings are there, I would spend roughly $120 for the month based on April, saving +/- 450/month. Fuel savings are close to a car payment, maybe more. No more oil changes, air filters, transmission flushes, and the list goes on. Now that i've seen the saving's I've put more thought into getting one, but now isn't the time, everyone is looking for them. The range isn't quite there for yet I don't think

Issue is as Ontario and others are aware of, with not needing to put in fuel a portion of the taxes collected went to roads. Given the condition of the roads now with many still driving gas cars, I can only imagine the state of the roads as more people transition to electric.

Yes, Ontario electricity is absurd though!

 

Davis makes all his money pulling trucks from the snow shed to the top of the Smasher that the computer controlled engine the accountant programmed wouldn’t let them drive up there. Despite what people think that’s not a big hill, we run up way bigger hills than that barefoot with loaded b-trains all the time without being pulled. Some of those guys being pulled off of there are more than capable of driving up it if the computer would let them drive it. If the engine is programmed like fleet trucks are and it won’t give you any fuel until it falls back to peak torque, you’re not going to make it up the big hills, no matter how many tire chains you put on it. Transmissions you can’t put in the gear you need to be in when you need to be in it are no help either.

 

Well in comparison to gas/diesel. Not in general.

 

.13/kWh to charge a Tesla that depreciates $13.80/day over five years while you’re getting to your first $10k battery replacement. I don’t know why everyone in Ontario isn’t driving one.

 

What i find funny is people think electricity will remain cheap when the government (state AND fed) notices that the 100s of billions a year they get from fuel taxes goes bye bye. Or when the grid cant keep up and the electric companys jack prices through the roof due to the age old low supply high demand story.

 

Commercial fuel and highway use taxes in Onterrible go into General Revenues, to feed 3rd generation welfare frauds with. Highway infrastructure is the last place that money goes.

 

Which is what engineers (the ones that run trains for a living) complain about also. The locomotives over ride the input that the engineer wants in all manner of ways and the train gets into a situation as in the picture. The bean counters and stupid engineers (not the ones that run trains for a living) have way too much faith in their precious computers and think they know more than experienced equipment operators be it a truck, train, plane or any other piece of machinery. They can do some things quicker or more accurately but that doesn’t always translate to better operations

 

I'd be pretty pissed if I'm sitting in my house and the power goes out on a 102 degree day because trucks and cars are sucking from the power grid.