THINKING TO BUY A TESLA SEMI TRUCK

IDK. That truck has the driver sitting in the middle of the truck. Kinda hard to physically look out the window while backing when your sitting in the middle. Just my opinion, but I think that's gonna be a problem.
Regardless, best of luck with getting it and hope things work out well with it.

 

You can buy a lot of diesel for the price of a Tesla that doesn't even have the infrastructure to charge it yet.

 

Pay 20k now for something that hasn’t been built yet. Heck yeah. If rich enough to do that diesel can be afforded. But diesel will be up to 20k a gallon by the time the first mega fleets get them before any one truck buyer will anyway.

 

This is major. Unless you can keep it local enough to "out and back" on one charge, or have reliable charge facilities to overnight charge along a contracted route it may not be practical.

I am about half way between port of Tacoma, WA and the area of Portland, OR that has lots of inter-modal. Glanced at a truck paper add for an electric day cab tractor. It's range was not sufficient to guaranty I could do a round trip without an extended lunch top up....... As the batteries age and loose capacity it would not work for me.

 

Not to mention battery losses when winter time comes, and you're up there where it gets cold cold.

 

the guy on the phone not being a good help should be an indication of customer service you’ll encounter.


As far as city driving? Maybe fine but OTR and Long hauls is a no go with their limit. Remember if your truck can’t go as far as diesel can then you won’t get the loads until every diesel is off the market.