ZeroGravitas 2 days ago | next |

Tesla has done the same as they did with the Cybertruck.

In the time they've spent faffing around with this, other companies in nations that aren't ruled by fossil oligarchs have built Semis that look just like other semis but with electric motors and put them into production for a range of tasks.

> By September 2024 Volvo electric customer trucks in 45 countries had covered more than 100 million kilometers

From a YouTube video they posted yesterday, likely as a response to this.

Tesla claim 7 million miles (11 million Km).

addicted 3 days ago | prev | next |

Does this address whether the payload was basically PepsiCo shipping bags of chips which are the lowest density items they have and was definitely what they had limited the Tesla semis to at least in the beginning?

ethagknight 3 days ago | root | parent |

at 5min mark of the full video linked below, the presenter says those miles were done at "American gross vehicle weight limits

sushid 3 days ago | root | parent |

That doesn’t really answer the question. At most, it just confirms that they ensured compliance with the legally mandated carrying capacity limit.

snapetom 3 days ago | root | parent | next |

This exactly. However, they did say there was "no compromise in payload."

If they can get those numbers at full payload, that would be impressive. Current generation of trucks can max pull half of the minimum weight of a shipping container. That's a huge headache for everyone in shipping from the trucking company to the terminals to the ships.

mywittyname 3 days ago | root | parent | next |

If they aren't providing hard numbers, then we should infer that to mean the figure is on the low side and failed to meet expectations.

Nobody is vague about a home run. OTOH, "there was no compromise in the number of swings the batter took" sounds an awful lot like a strike out.

stubybubs 2 days ago | root | parent | prev |

It's now been years and they still haven't said what it hauls. Just that cargo and semi combined are at the limit for gross vehicle weight. Should be very easy to say the semi weighs X and it hauls Y.

That they're not saying it after years is really suspicious. Give us all the numbers.

dyauspitr 2 days ago | root | parent | prev |

They said “at” which specifies that they were carrying the maximum allowable load/it was fully loaded.

nikau 2 days ago | root | parent | next |

Tesla also said the cybertruck can win a 1/4 mile drag race that turned out to be a 1/8 mile drag race and even dubious at that.

snypher 2 days ago | root | parent | prev |

I think the question is, at say 80k lbs max weight, how much of that was payload and how much was vehicle?

janalsncm 3 days ago | prev | next |

I want to know more about the economics of it. How much does this Tesla semi cost, and how much does a regular class 8 semi cost?

A back of the envelope calculation says you save a dollar for every 3.1 miles the Tesla semi drives, given current diesel prices and electric prices. But idk if these would have the same prices for electricity or not. If Tesla was smart they’d build out fast charging stations for semis to guarantee a low price.

I guess the other question is distance. If they truly get 1000 miles of range that’s 15 hours of driving which I assume is enough but I know nothing about trucking. It is probably lower if they tow a heavier load.

m463 3 days ago | root | parent |

I wonder if tesla self-driving figures into the truck equation, or if it will appear in diesel trucks soon.

janalsncm 2 days ago | root | parent | next |

Why should it? Self driving is vaporware until it isn’t. Once it exists it changes the cost benefit analysis for the future, not the past. People need to stop buying things that don’t exist yet.

Same goes for “AI-ready” iPhone 16s. Either I can use the AI or I can’t. Once I can, I will consider buying it.

EricE 3 days ago | prev |

Great - more 24+ hour shutdowns for highways in the future...