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A Tesla Semi has already traveled 250k miles in 1.5 years

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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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

There is always styrofoam insulation transport if the calories are to heavy.

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).

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.

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

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.

It was in uber's equation 10 years ago and we all know how it's going lol

full video: https://twitter.com/TheEVuniverse/status/1836068971990102429

YouTube copy of the video https://youtu.be/52HFCr-I9HA

And follow up with Pepsi in a Q&A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6e7RmPB4Y

But how much did it pull?

That’s an average of ~19 miles per hour continuously.

Or about 60mph for 8 hours a day, which is not an unreasonable average speed for a semi truck if you factor in the first and last miles.

~ 450 miles per day

About 8 hours of driving per day at 60 miles an hour

And caught on fire three times

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

Yeah, for all the downvoters - twice in as many months: https://x.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1836248754695082316

Any data on this? Sounds alarming

More details - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2LVvSfoR4w

And I was wrong, it's the third major crash with Lithium Ion batteries in the last couple of months.

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