TESLA Electric Truck?

[two_bit_score]

Just like you need the beater for towing when your only other vehicle is a motorcycle. Or a Jeep. Or anything lightweight - that gets 3x the gas mileage compared to the beater. Many families have more than one vehicle.

The idea that you are recommending anyone keep an extra car just to tow their Tesla speaks for itself.

 

[California]

The idea that you are recommending anyone keep an extra car just to tow their Tesla speaks for itself.

Who tows a Tesla? I think think there is something here you don't understand.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

All I know is I am 95% sure I will never have an EV vehicle in my lifetime

I think this may be true for many here.

Unless one needs a better vehicle trading for an EV may never make $$$ sense for many. For a one car person/family I can not see an EV as a good fit for most.

 

[Grumpycat]

No you can get one with a solar panel on the bed cover. It adds 15 miles to the range per hour in direct sunlight. So you would only have to charge it 10 hours to gain 150 miles!

15 MPH requires 5kW. 300W is reasonable output from a 80 inch by 40 inch PV panel. Your claim will require 16.7 of these panels. They weigh 50 pounds each not including the mounting brackets. Over 800 pounds.

I claim B.S.

 

[Grumpycat]

And then if they actually got popular, and then the grid failed due to over consumption

Why would the grid fail over consumption? You are suffering from Gas Station Mentality. Thinking an EV must mimic an ICE. The correct use of an EV is to have sufficient range for most days, then charge at night when there is so much surplus the utilities beg for T.O.U. (Time Of Use) billing to soak users during peak daytime use, to motivate shift of consumption to night. Utilities love street lights as a means of donating power in exchange for tax credits.

Heat plants such as nuclear and coal have very slow throttles. Takes days to weeks to come up to full temperature so they can not reduce much for lower nighttime loads. So they have the heat, might as well make electricity with it. But cannot because electricity costs more to store than generate.

 

[lilranch2001]

Ok? So let痴 say every ICE is replaced with EV, you are making the point NO infrastructure will get overloaded?

 

[Grumpycat]

The supercharger concept is ridiculous. If it takes me more time to charge my car than fill it up with gas then it is a step backwards and just a waste of time. Show me an electric vehicle that has BETTER range and quicker refueling than the gas/diesel counterparts then I will give it a look.

Your thinking is limited by believing a Supercharger is a gas station, that one is expected to be dependent upon Superchargers.

New V3 Superchargers are capable of 250kW initial charge rate. A newer Model 3 Long Range can start at that rate with a low battery. All Teslas slow the rate as battery charges. My 6 year old S starts at 120kW. But at home it charges at 40A @ 240VAC, 9.6kW. At home I get 29 miles into the battery per hour. Doesn't slow until the last 5 miles. I do not charge to 100% because I do not have to.

I spend about 30 seconds per day charging. Connecting the cable. Disconnecting the cable.

What you fail to understand about Superchargers is that their only purpose is to facilitate travel of more than 200 miles in a day. Makes travel not only possible by put practical. I can and have driven 540 miles in one day stopping 3 times for about 35 minutes each. While I have driven that route nonstop in ICE vehicles, it is not a good idea. What is the Federal regulation for OTR drivers? Stop every 2 hours?

 

[California]

15 MPH requires 5kW. 300W is reasonable output from a 80肺40 PV panel. Your claim will require 16.7 of these panels. They weigh 50 pounds each not including the mounting brackets. Over 800 pounds.

I claim B.S.

A college friend of my daughter was on a team that built an experimental 'car' for a solar-only competition. It looked like a manta ray or experimental aircraft, large, and very thin. Very lightweight. The operator was reclined nearly flat to cut wind resistance. It could barely move in direct sunlight.

Rooftop (on the car) solar isn't going to work given present solar panel capability.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Who tows a Tesla? I think think there is something here you don't understand.

Hey Tesla's being towed by another vehicle happens on Youtube more than I thought.

Tow-charging the Tesla Model 3 (part two). CRAZY results!!! - YouTube

This guy was towed by son's C-Max for 1 mile and added 10 miles of range driving at the towed rate of speed. Regen is a huge feature on an EV to charge the battery and save the brake pads. One pedal driving is becoming the norm for some EV drivers. The new Nissan Leafs have the totally one pedal driving feature.

Towing with a rope may not be legal in many places and Tesla I am sure cringes over these YouTube videos.

On our Leaf regen can go up to 30,000 watts rate of charging power when taking the foot off of the pedal stopping or going down a hill. Not needing to use the brakes until at very low speeds is awesome.

In the Leaf 22 MPH gives best miles per kWh so on small hilly 1.5 lane roads one can build the battery up sometimes. Getting back in an ICE and having to use the brakes to stop seems like a lost of energy.

 

[DK35vince]

What is the Federal regulation for OTR drivers? Stop every 2 hours?

Believe its more like a 30 minute break after 8 hours of driving, with an 11 hour max driving per day.
How long can truck drivers drive before they have to take a break? - Cordisco & Saile LLC