Waiting on New Trucks thread.

I misunderstood your original question.

It’s not directly proportional. The horsepower requirement exponentially increases, the faster you go. To double the speed, takes roughly 8X the power. The drag on the vehicle roughly quadruples. If you knew the actual horsepower needed to achieve “X” speed, you could mathematically figure out an approximation, for however much faster you want to go. It’s why land speed racing is so incredibly difficult. Doubling the power doesn’t double the speed.

 

if you want the scania style truck in the us. you could buy a nikola electric truck for the low price of 300k

 

To be fair, you can crack a steel pan as well over tightening the drain plug. That’s splitting hairs though.

 

It’s gotta’ have an ICE (internal combustion engine), because I’m not walking.

 

dont you know there is electric chargers every 200 miles out there on the road ?

 

I believe they are 800k and they are offering a 300k discount to buy early…… lol

 

So you just keep running splits every 4-5 hours and hope it doesnt get cold? How long until they try to screw with the HOS to cater to the electric trucks?

 

that is a great point..you absolutely know its coming..they will do anything to push it down peoples throats... i think electric trucks and the technology is cool but by god they should leave the free man to make his own choices on what truck he runs down the road... whats happening is scary