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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
