Five years after Elon Musk first announced the Tesla Semi, it’s finally hitting roads. CNBC visited Pepsi’s Frito-Lay facility in Modesto, California, where it is using the new electric trucks, to see whether the Semis live up to the hype.
Chapters:
2:12 Ch 1 – Tesla Semi
6:16 Ch 2 – Frito-Lay’s Tesla Semis
9:16 Ch 3 – Challenges
Produced by: Andrew Evers
Supervising Producer: Jeniece Pettitt
Additional Camera: Katie Tarasov
Narration by: Erin Black
Graphics by: Alex Wood
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Does The Tesla Semi Live Up To The Hype?
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A good tractor trailer for sure .
But a 700 km range and a charge time that is well over one hour is nothing to get excited about .
Get a whopping 90 miles of drive time
All that for delivering chemical water and fried potato slices that have no healthy nutritional value. Imagine if they delivering fruit and veggies. Well, I guess it's 'merica 🙂
Hyllion…? Pay attention 🙂 maybe. Go Tom!
1 hour to charge 400ish miles is kinda nuts
Notice that it’s just chips and sod’s. Where’s the big loads that real semi’s pull? And what about locomotives? Have you seen the plumes of black smoke those things produce?
That's the red flag right there "contents of the trailer can weigh about 4500lb" Trucks can have a max weight of I think 80,000lb here in the US. A traditional truck weighs about 35,000lb so the contents of the trailer can weigh up to 45,000 . 10x as much! The Tesla with it's battery is just to heavy. They're only good for hauling air, LOL!
As a Truck driver Myself i am highly skeptical of The Drivers positive feedback, when they were not allowed to be interviewed. Most truck drivers i talked to if not all have a high degree of distrust to the electric trucks
EV is great, but we are still not doing better. Most power is coal. We guzzle too much power to let modern 100% renewables be the only power source.
Who's the bald guy with the inaccurate information?
An electric truck can out muscle any diesel powered vehicle.
As usual, Elon Musk overpromised.
Electric vehicles are plugged into the power grid, the power grid is still mostly powered from fossil fuels. Your logic?
Buy a Volvo.
Some one has to do the job at the end of the day… more regs on diesel is just pointless..
Anyone that insists on placing the driver's seat in the middle of the cab….knows nothing about trucking.
What more can I ask even with recent recession in the economic, I can be able to acquire a good living for me and my kids cause I'm making a lot of money Investing in a digital markets
Tesla is clearly superior in every regard. The biased commentary against Tesla is pathetic. Did Biden pay for this?
Obviously not!*
* certainly not the 2017 hype.
I don’t see how this problem can be any different than my model x. If I carry groceries you can see a difference in range.
Now imagine connecting a trailer to it – even an empty one. They are horrible (electric vehicles) at carrying additional weight beyond the bare car and it’s driver.
In summary: until there is a battery chemistry that makes batteries A: more affordable and B: higher energy density, it’s just not time for electrifying everything.
Awesome move. HGV electrification is welcomed. Other markets need it it more… UK, Europe, Asia. The move after this is to tackle shipping electrification and aeroplanes.
WHY DONT THEY TALK ABOUT DIRTY LITHIUM
I think Tesla like Netflix, brought an idea, for companies that already had the network, or scheme to make also electric cars/trucks. And now all car manufacturers and trucks would make the final fall of Tesla
CNBC fake news network. The drivers love them. Longest full load 485 miles. This guy is a tool.
This sounds great but no one has talked about when and how much the politicians will start taxing EV's