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Some commentary on the numbers put forward by Musk,
http://driving.ca/tesla/auto-news/ne...=1510948505333 Musk, to be me, is just a 21st century snake oil salesman. This is not going to end well. |
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The only thing i did not like about the truck was the "solo driving mode", you cant rely in a computer to drive that thing, the radar fails and you kill like 100 people with that darn truck.
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A second option will be for the trucks to run mobile diesel generators for back-up. Not a far-fetched idea as train locomotives have been doing this half a century now. Its just scaled down technology. Edit: Wal-Mart/J.B. Hunt have placed orders. https://www.wsj.com/articles/teslas-...unt-1510950438 Last edited by josephr; 11-17-2017 at 07:19 PM. |
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Holy ugly ass windshield wiper Batman! What a blot on the aesthetic
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And, they have plenty of US Government backed loans that has funded this venture. My friend did the math, every man, woman and child in this fine nation has about $2 of exposure to this boondoggle last time he looked. Might be more today, or less, not sure. Burning through investor money makes it an interesting situation. Burning through tax payer money makes it an outrage. Especially when he's trying to run 3+ other companies, while this one appears to be imploding.
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I don't think he is too worried about criticism from people on internet forums. He is too busy moving forward. It is a lot easier to criticize than to create. Jeff |
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Lots of industries have subsidies that maybe shouldn't. Oil and corn come to mind. There are far worse purposes for tax dollars than spending them on Tesla. |
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It's the classic privatizing of gains, socializing of losses. Forget the people who don't have cars or don't have support for those cars, the fallout would go a lot further than Musk's personal bank account and those aggreived customers. At some point, the company will need to produce at scale. They're showing little evidence they can do what other car companies mastered a long time ago in production. |
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how many hours are you allowed to drive before you are required to take a break?
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https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulation...ce-regulations
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I’m no expert, but it seems to me the electric semi is way more better than the electric car in a lot of ways.
Guidelines for commercial drivers make the 500 mile range pretty realistic at this point. Yes, cross country/teams are going to burn fuel and maybe keep a second book, but I get the feeling that a substantial amount of commercial shipping is done within a 500 mile radius, or turn around, and the books are more or less accurate. Keeping drivers and insurance awake and happy respectively seems like a no-brainer at the 500 mile range. Commercial vehicles have to have higher yearly mileage averages than cars, so their emission contributions must be pretty high even if there isn’t as many of them as cars. Commercial vehicles also seem to be handling more and more of the goods we all purchase which is really all America seems to do anymore. Don’t forget maintenance! Big companies don’t like red. All this says nothing about the environmental toll of batteries or that generating power isn’t exactly clean, and of course someone actually needs to make them first, but e-cars have always seemed like a band-aid for a select few who can afford them when full on semi-truck sized stitches is what everyone could really benefit from. Now the self driving thing is interesting. Will self driving vehicles get their own lane, then their own road? Will they all line up behind one another like one long train? Last edited by dustyrider; 11-17-2017 at 10:55 PM. |
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The trucks can be charged while they are taking their federally mandated breaks. These rules are enforced by truck stops and drivers log books.
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Just curious, has Musk stated a position on where he thinks electricity ought to come from?
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