Who is/will be the 1st TTR member to drive Electric Semi-Truck?

A friend of mine spotted one yesterday in Syracuse at a charging dock

 

Pepsi is supposed to start taking delivery of the 500-mile range trucks in Dec with Frito Lay to follow shortly after.

 

Nikola has class 8 trucks in production. Sure only 93 by Sept 2022, but they are producing them (slowly) and not just prototypes.

 

They ordered from Tesla?

 

Sorry, I forgot the link.
Tesla Semi production starts; Pepsi to get first electric trucks

 

Nice ! It will be interesting to see how they turn out compared to other companies

 

Anyone thinking of buying one should probably wait to see how many years the battery banks last before replacement is needed. And then see what the street cost of doing so. Calculate the typical miles and do the math. Also calculating cost of charging energy including lost charging efficiency and storage over time as the batteries wear.

 

This is very informative if you can get through it all.

 

I’m going to wait until they have flying trucks

 

Electric is a band-aid. A short-term "solution" until the true alternative is ready. I suspect that the real solution for widespread application is going to be hydrogen. The technology is proven, it's just a cost and infrastructure issue now. True electric not only has the same cost and infrastructure issues (though a little further along) but also current limits on battery technology and scarcity of crucial materials. It would take a true battery breakthrough, in capacity and materials, to truly make electric the primary long-term solution. Not that it can't happen, but my money's on hydrogen.