THINKING TO BUY A TESLA SEMI TRUCK

It may be worth the wait. I still like the idea of an electric engine, its simplicity and efficiency, cleanness.
I am not talking about environmental cleanness and tree hugging - which is indeed questionable with the aspects of battery waste and required electrical input that must be provided from somewhere by amount that nobody can really recon with at this point, but about the operational - kinetics cleanness - the internal combustion mess harnessed onto pistons then crankshaft and gears, replaced by the magic and simplicity of electromagnetic field. It should have been worked on long time ago.

 

Theres no simplicity when only tesla can work on their trucks and the wait times are 2 to 3 months long.

 

That's infrastructural deficiency to be overcome as soon as those electric engine trucks will prove their worth. Tesla does not have to be the only one out there.
The concept of no engine block, no transmission, no rear ends, no drive line, no dpf etc. etc, etc. Is there anything to break anyway?

 

I'd say that since Tesla has been promising these unicorns for more than a few years and hasn't started delivering them yet that "simplicity" isn't actually that simple.

 

If they would ever actually start mass production on the Tesla, for what we do it would almost make sense. We park at our shop every night, our longest day is about 450 miles. So if the 500 mile range is accurate, that might work.

Our problem would be the weight. I haven't looked what the weight of one of these is, but I know my Western star is around 17k lbs. And it's too heavy.

The other issue would be how to run a PTO driven blower. But many of our customers have a stationary blower on site already. That just leaves the issue of the occasional overload at cement mills when we have to blow some off. They never have stationary blowers.

It is intriguing to me though. I've actually pondered whether it would be worth trying to put together a small fleet doing just what we do. It would definitely get the attention of the bigger customers we deal with. They claim to be conscientious of the environment....

 

They've been promising delivery in 2 years since I believe 2016, I wouldn't believe them if they told me water was wet. You can't get a guaranteed quote on a new trailer until a month before its built at this point, forget about a remotely firm price for a purely theoretical truck.

 

There will be that much or more spent on electric vehicle charging stations and whatnot too. I won't use the term invest for it, throwing down money at the craps table is a better investment.