-500 mile range on a full charge. On empty 30 min of charging will get you 400 miles.
-Lower drag coefficient than a bugatti veyron
-They're claiming cost per mile is less than rail for shipping goods.
-2019 availability
-Lane centering + other features (jack knife prevention)
-1,000,000 mile guarantee
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Also they surprised announced a new roadster:
-New plaid mode (beyond ludicrous) 0-60 in 1.9s.
-620 mile range
I LOLed at this one. Supercars want lots of downforce so they don't constantly go off the road and you die. They're not built for low Cd. A Toyota Prius has 35% lower drag coefficient than a Bugatti Veyron.
It's like when the "superfruit" people go "look at this amazing berry, it has 20% more vitamin C than a lemon!" Well yeah, an orange has 70% more vitamin than a lemon. Marketing wank for the uninformed masses.
> On empty 30 min of charging will get you 400 miles.
I did a double take here. To do that we're talking ~ 1000 kWh drawn from the grid in 30 min; that's pulling 2 megawatts of power. None of the existing Supercharger installations come close to providing enough power for even one truck.
It also means that on the distribution grid, a charging station for 8 semis will need a dedicated 20 MVA 33/11 kV distribution transformer, plus 4 11kV/480V transformers. Unless you manage to keep those charging slots filled 90% of the time, that's going to be bloody expensive electricity.
Also, the coefficient is then multiplied by the frontal area of the vehicle. A semi has a helluva frontal area.
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[1] drag = 1/2 x air_density x frontal_area x drag_coefficient x velocity^2
Or a pile of batteries.
> a charging station for 8 semis will need a dedicated 20 MVA
20MVA is approx. 20MW, Solar Power is 100W/m2 hence that gives 0.2km2 (or 200,000m2 of needed area for 20MW)
Solar won't help you in this case
The million miles is on the drive train. I don't remember if they mentioned the battery warranty?
IIRC the cost per mile in a convoy that they quoted was $0.83/mile.
Same enhanced auto driving features of current Teslas. Automatic breaking, etc.
EDIT1: The dash is the wheel and two screens (left and right). Supposedly their software has all the integrations drivers need, so they don't need to slap other 3rd party devices into their vehicle (which they describe as a problem for existing trucks. I have no clue one way or the other).
It has a frunk.
Little of it natively works together. The contractual limitations are nuts.
From what I recall technology often isn't shared between automobile and truck manufacturing companies owned by the same parent because of these restrictions.
But over 80% of total miles are put on in the other 20% of routes
Note: This only applies to "Convoy mode" where 3 or more vehicles draft off each other.
Those numbers are simply insane, for anyone who doesn't know torque figures. A Dodge Challenger Hellcat makes 650 ft-lbs for comparison.
So, a small car with more wheel torque than a Hellcat in 2nd gear, nice!
Edit: Used incorrect ratios, updated.
It’s hard to comprehend 1.9 pushing a battery pack. If that thing doesn’t break 300, it’ll flirt.
This isn't anywhere near as impressive as one might think: a Veyron has a pretty bad drag coefficient because of the amount of cooling intakes it has (turns out cooling an engine producing over 1000PS takes a lot of air).
A Chevy Tahoe has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron. One of those super-boxy 80s Volvos has a lower drag coefficient than a Veyron.
Acceleration 0-60 mph with 80k lbs - 20 sec
Speed up a 5% Grade - 65 mph
Powertrain - 4 Independent Motors on Rear Axles
Energy Consumption - Less than 2 kWh / mile
Tim Urban has a great essay about different levels of prep people do for talks [1] which he wrote when preparing to give a Ted talk. Musk's talks are on the "Wing it" side of prep while a Ted talk is suppose to be on the "Follow an exact script - Happy-Birthday-Level memorized" level.
[1] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/doing-a-ted-talk-the-full-sto...
Tesla has a price-to-sale ration of nearly 6, while Nissan and GM are <0.5. So Tesla is mostly image and vision, not reality. Therefore it depends on Musks presentations with visions of a glorious future.
"Getting the Model 3 up to a production rate of 5,000 a week is what will start to prove out Tesla's current stock price, not a slick demo."
Yes, currently it looks like this is out of reach of Tesla.
Sometimes you gotta get people to believe in a better reality :P
"[...] as long as 1) wealthy consumers in western
nations but also China are eager to seek indulgence
by way of green-washing and, 2) are in search of a
Steve Jobs replacement persona onto which they can
project their hopes for a gleaming future and,
3) are disillusioned with the establishment and
its leaders, the company will likely succeed to
raise cash again."
The stock price is not the arbiter of whether a company is vision or reality. Nothing would change about those companies if public opinion suddenly shifted and made those ratios go the other way.