Tesla semi - any goss

Pure poppycock. Briefly, in America, electric vehicles can only work in a very limited area. I saw a cartoon, the trailer was filled with batteries. In a short haul, city location, electrics are okay, even though, nobody ever says where all that extra juice is supposed to come from on our already overtaxed system, but on a long haul, it can't work. Our HOS is already a joke, then factor in another 10 hours to charge the dang thing, and range anxiety would be multiplied ten fold in a cross country trucking situation. Far as I'm concerned, this electric baloney is nothing more than a band-aid on a heart attack and to stall ( and make money) until a more viable solution is found.

 

Well, America isn't Australia, and we run on the mindset, "RUN 'ER DRY", and then we'll look into other avenues. The only way a long distance EV could work, would be a battery interchange, like a forklift. We have maybe half a dozen new charging sites in my little rural town, for the most part, go unused. People with EVs for just local use charge them at home, and that's great, but range anxiety is very real in remote areas, and the saddest thing I saw, was a photo of a gas generator charging a flat EV.
Another example, I saw a video of a guy testing a new F150 EV pickup, pulling a Ford Model A on a tandem trailer. Oh, the ads look so simple, big smiles on the way to the boat launch, but this guy said, on a full charge, mind you, within the 1st 10 miles, was okay, but juice began to drop dramatically, and by 20 miles, he had to turn around and go back. A swing and a miss if you ask me.

 

Have you tried the search function?

 

Actually a electric truck could work, with my work. Most days are under 400 miles and most loads are light. Where i park at night would change somewhat, as i avoid chain truckstops

 

Which is better, manual transmissions or automated?.......
All prior first world countries have governments that are bought and paid for by energy giants with an agenda of which relies on marketing to achieve their goals. As with any and all past and present leaderships who's goals are malicious and nefarious in nature, their focus is too narrow and in short order, they will fail.
How many of you remember "Y2K"? The fear of the end of the world when computer's clocks could not figure out how to adjust to 20xx when 19xx ended, was a huge marketing success. I could go on about the latest global marketing debacle that over 90% of the world's population fell for, but that might get me banned.
The marketing focus on "zero foot print" and "clean, renewable energy" has really become a success as it has been taught and pounded home to the population from grade school on. No one is allowed to question the real environment costs associated with the manufacture of, and installation of the infrastructure to support all rechargeable vehicle nations.
The convenience of "cordless" tools is a multi-billion dollar success. But at the end of each and every cordless tool, there is a charger plugged in to the grid. So now you have the expensive mining of non-regenerative earth resources to make the batteries, on top of the power loss of switching AC to DC for charging. Now ramp those costs and losses up a couple million times, and you should be able to see the how and why the rechargeable trucks and cars will eventually go by the wayside as a historical wonderment.
But hey, it's fun to watch from the outside looking in.

 

Tesla broke ground on the Nevada facility for semi and battery production. Im excited, my application running 300 miles round trip will allow me to consider one.