TESLA Electric Truck?
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Back in the 80's the post office had a small fleet of electric trucks... they were well received but not cost effective.
As to electric cars another convert at least every month at work... just looking out that the employee parking lot it is easy to see.
Many have said their next car will be electric... but, a lot has to do with incentives and privilege of single occupancy carpool lanes... but this is also changing.
As to electric cars another convert at least every month at work... just looking out that the employee parking lot it is easy to see.
Many have said their next car will be electric... but, a lot has to do with incentives and privilege of single occupancy carpool lanes... but this is also changing.
How much of that is also the desire to keep up with the Joneses? We saw that with Hybrids... buyers were people who believed in and were supporting the technology. Then for a while they became a "fad", until the novelty wore off and the next car craze came along.
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Must be running badly. I spent my whole life running propane forklifts in the warehouse and cold storage rooms with no problems.
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I agree. I will stick with my F150 for now.
Not ridiculous... just not ready for the masses yet.
Totally agree. I'm for most all forms of electricity as it makes 'sense' and depending on the application. Nuclear has a bad rep. I don't think we should turn away from it. Our greatest war ships/subs are nuclear powered.
jjp8182
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yep there are some..... and there are also some others who are used to being peddled marketing hype on a frequent basis from companies who believe their new thingy is even better than sliced bread
In all reality for something like this to really take over it will require not only a change in mentality of the end-users/buyers, but also that of the design engineers so they change their design & technology such that their product can become viable for buyers/users who can't change their use cases to accommodate some new piece of technology. For example: the bed sidewalls of the Tesla truck look like they may actually be part of the truck's structure, and some of the terminology Tesla uses would also imply that's the case. If so that would likely require significant rework/re-engineering of the truck in order to replace the bed with a flatbed suitable for loading of large bulk cargo from the sides via forks (or other methods). ...which in turn means they limited their market potential by some degree (which is likely larger than expected since the payload extends into truck sizes where flatbeds are more frequently seen for such reasons).
Just my opinion. ....and I might be in a minority since the type of engineering I'm involved in means I tend to end up seeing/dealing with a fair number of situations that many believe "could never happen" because they will most likely never see it happen themselves. Often times the end result is things breaking (or just not functioning) due to situations the designers never considered - or even thought were "impossible" due to their own biases & lack of understanding. As such I suspect (unless they change) Tesla will eventually go the way of many of the early (and now defunct) automobile manufacturers. Particularly since Tesla seems to have a tendency to over-hype and under-perform (in addition to occasionally shooting themselves in the foot by limiting their marketability through design decisions) --- which will eventually bite them as they gain more direct competition ...again just my :2cents:
Personally if I had the spare time/space/money I'd be tempted to buy a high end Tesla to store for future resale as a collector's item -- with the hopes that in time it will become like some of the old automobiles that now sell for orders of magnitude more than the original purchase price.
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When I bought my Tesla the nearest Service Center was 220 miles away. Was offered a prepaid pickup/delivery service, as many times as necessary for warranty and annual service for $100/year. Limit 8 years. So I maxed it.
Today the nearest Service Center is 92 miles away but they still come get my car for service.
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What does your $100/year exactly buy you?
GeneV
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That tesla truck is frackin HIDEOUS! It looks utterly retarded, gimmicky, cartoonish, I mean, there's no way. *storms out of room, slams door shut*
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That pictured truck comes to get my car, brings me a loaner if I request, and then returns my car when the service is complete. The service center is 92 miles away.
I also purchased extended warranty to 8 years and 8 years of prepaid service when I ordered the car.
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I suspect it was CO (carbon monoxide) not CO2 (carbon dioxide). It doesn't really matter whether the forklift was LP or gasoline, the problem was poor ventilation. And in cold storage that means the fresh air has to be chilled to replace the old. This is exactly the right place for an electric forklift.
You are right on all counts. I was a bit more confused than normal yesterday, I'd been listening to Bob Dylan and trying to make sense of the lyrics.
Yet the smell of propane still will make me slightly nauseous, especially since I got gassed again at the company camp a couple of years ago.
On another note; yesterday I posted
A couple of hours later I drove past a pea green "Cube"; at that moment I realized that not everybody likes the same things I do, and there's no accounting for taste.
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Jim Nelson
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What Mr. Tesla desperately needs is a reincarnation of Lee Iacocca to take him by the hand and show him how to design and market an automobile. Un fortunately he would probably not listen because he is ,in his mind at least, the smartest man in the world.
Fallon
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What does he know, he only built PayPal, SpaceX and the non-governmental or defences contractor space industry & Tesla. By the way its Elon Musk, not Tesla, the company is named after genius scientist Nikola Tesla. In all fairness he's a bit of a salesman in the not so flattering way. But he has built the first US automotive company to achieve any real size since what? Before WW2?
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Wired takes a look at why the windows broke. A Physics Analysis of Tesla'''s Shattered Cybertruck Windows | WIRED
TL,DR - They have to make guesses based on what they can see from the videos and speculate at points so they make it clear they don't know for sure, but they do make a guess that the demos where they drop the steel ball from a stepladder onto a window laid out flat, may have allowed the window to move due to flex in the mounting brackets, which absorbed some shock. Meanwhile the window mounted in the "sledgehammer proof" door may not have the same ability to absorb some of the impact.
Why the window did not break while they threw wrenches and other things like that at it in testing, but shattered from the steel ball in the demo, is still yet to be determined. Reminds me of when Bill Gates accidentally demonstrated the BSOD to the world, while doing the Windows 98 launch. :thumbsup:
TL,DR - They have to make guesses based on what they can see from the videos and speculate at points so they make it clear they don't know for sure, but they do make a guess that the demos where they drop the steel ball from a stepladder onto a window laid out flat, may have allowed the window to move due to flex in the mounting brackets, which absorbed some shock. Meanwhile the window mounted in the "sledgehammer proof" door may not have the same ability to absorb some of the impact.
Why the window did not break while they threw wrenches and other things like that at it in testing, but shattered from the steel ball in the demo, is still yet to be determined. Reminds me of when Bill Gates accidentally demonstrated the BSOD to the world, while doing the Windows 98 launch. :thumbsup:
