Here is why the Tesla Semi is NOT a savings

LoneRanger, that's pretty much how it is for many in the owner operator-own authority world. That's exactly what we do. We buy a new truck, if fortunate enough and purchase all the coverages, the best warranty, the best maintenance plan, and as you guessed it, the warranty expires at either 5 years or 500,000 miles, whichever comes first, and we rinse and repeat. We trade the truck in right around the 500K mark and get a new one. For those who do around 125K driving, they will trade the truck in at the 4 year mark. This is very, very, very common for a huge chunk of O/O's

 

That's Tesla's own website that quoted this 2 years ago. It was literally Tesla who said the battery pack will need replaced at 500,000 miles. It was literally Tesla who estimated 3 years ago, that driving 100,000 miles per year will cost around 10,000 dollars in electricty. Add inflation and rising energy cost and dead heading 10% (10,000) miles from 3 years ago, and you get to the 12,500 dollar ballbark range for electricty to run the truck.

 

Have you driven a 2022 with the full aerodynamics package with on board inverter, with 90 percent cruise control with only 450 horses with proper axle ratio? I drive this truck and have 3 close friends who drive the same one. We got a deal by ordering 4 of them together at the same time with exact same specs. The guy in the Northwest is getting 9.4. The guy in the East, Southeast, and Midwest is getting 9.7, and myself and another guy running primarily the plains are getting 10.0 and 10.1. Again though, key things. The truck pretty much Never idols. I never run the AC. I run 91 percent cruise control, and have absolute complete aerodynamics package. Not just the truck. The trailer, every single way possible that we know how to add aerodynamics to the truck, I've done that.

The difference in fuel efficiency in the 2019 and 2020 and 2021 and 2022 and 2023 Cascadias are Alarming. Unlike Pete's, Kenny's, and Volvo's that for years and years had very little or tiny fractional improvements in fuel efficiency, the Cascadia and often forgot about, the Mack in 2022 and 2023 models are light-years better in fuel efficiency from literally only 36 months ago (3 years).

The Mack Anthem will be my next truck. I was 50/50 on getting an Anthem instead of a Cascadia, but the other 3 guys were dead set. Mack, I promise you will see more Anthems in the next 2 years. They've completely done a 180 in the right direction from quality, to fuel efficiency, to looks, to practicality, just a night and day different truck than what is was in 2019 and years past