Electric truck charging roadway in Indiana

So according to the article you need 200kwh or around 100 houses worth of power delivered constantly to charge a truck. It doesnt say if that is PER truck or just to keep that rail active.

Now if its the former, According to teh googles just a single facility may see as many as 30k trucks a day. Which mean just 1 facility will have the equivlent of 3 million homes worth of power drawn throughout the day....and thats a SINGLE facility. I cant even find hard numbers for how many total trucks go through chicago a day. But im guessing several hundred thousand.

This should be fun to watch.

 

You could power my entire house for 3 months with the A/C going compared to filling 1 truck at 240 gallons.

 

I'm guessing the reporter got a little lost with the numbers along the way as it's a pretty piss poor comparison. Id say 1 truck to 10 homes seems kinda correct.

Growing up my house lost power a lot, so we had a little generator to keep the fridge and sump pump powered. I think that the generator could probably have powered the whole house (except the ac) if we could have wired it to the breaker panel, but it's been 20 years so that's a guess. Regardless, we used less than 5 gallons a day. 550 miles at 6.5 mpg is 85 gallons, so that's 17x the house usage.

 

They say the Tesla semi it using 2 kWh per mile

 

Diesel is $4.23 per gallon at my current location 240x 4.23 is $1,015 My last electric bill was $140 with A/C running all July at 71F That’s 7 months of power for my house with just 1 truck filling up

 

They also say it can go 500 miles fully load...!! But Pepsi will not use them for Pepsi heavy (40,000 lb) loads because the range in under 200 miles and only use them for lite loads like cheetos..

Their is a great video of a fully loaded tesla semi ripping it up and over Donner pass.. what they didn't show was it was fully charged in Sacrament drove 135 miles to Reno had to recharge on Reno to make the trip back, so fully load it couldn't do 270 miles..!

 

Did they even think about how the human body recactes to long term magnetic fields, even low level..

I can see the cancer rates going up

 

I've said before, where is all this juice going to come from? Just keep plugging them in, blissfully unaware, our grid is about to blow now. Just got over another power outage, average about 3 per month, almost 8 hours this time. My popsicles almost thawed. There's merit to that, as food prices grow, it's easy to have a couple hundred bucks in the fridge. Granted, I'm in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, but we, as Americans, we demand electricity. Front range, ( Denver, etc.) where most of my power comes from, I think, has some of the worst air in the country, thanks in part, to power plants spewing fumes 24 hours a day. No new nukes that I know of being built. Weather knocks out power for weeks sometimes, where's your EV now, eh? I'm sorry, I think in 50 years, writers will have a field day writing about how much of a blunder the EV craze really was and will surely go the way of silly putty and poodle skirts.