Recent content by Farmertom

The dust and many chemicals kicked up by transportation is not going to be eliminated and what about the increased electromagnetic bath we will be living in? Nobody knows the health effects of that yet. Besides, I doubt government is going to transfer healthcare savings to transportation...

My side... Eventually EVs will have to contribute to infrastructure costs, petroleum can't subsidize electricity forever in that way. I believe it needs to be considered as it may come as sticker shock when they do eventually decide EVs need to contribute.

But road tax on petroleum vehicles is ongoing, there has to be some sort of ongoing mileage tracking and charge rate eventually, especially if these vehicles are traveling interstate.

How are electric trucks being charged road taxes?

Something occurred to me the other day... Are electric vehicles paying road taxes? In the States around 30 to 70 cents a gallon of petroleum fuel are taxes, how are electric vehicles contributing infrastructure costs?

There you go, I also discovered China is running electric busses the other day One city in China has more electric buses than all of America’s biggest cities have buses Charging must become a logistical nightmare when it gets cold.

That's a good, honest assessment Cloxxki, I actually don't see issues with long haul after the infrastructure is setup on dedicated routes either. (New York/LA and such.). You recharge when you stop to eat and sleep so at least twice a day. It's those that travel all over the continent that need...

A problem I see with the different ratios would be breaking traction on the wheels with the higher ratio in slippery conditions. Are these units capable of manipulating the inverters so they can provide the exact same torque output to each wheel?

I guess this is why you see lineups of vehicles at fuel stations in times of crisis, people don't plan ahead. It will be interesting considering these trucks have never been on the road. If these claims are true Elon should be crowned as the most honest salesman ever.

I don't understand what you're saying here, do you have a link to this program? It sounds like Tesla's truck customers are going to have to invest in way more than just the trucks? Why pay anything for electricity if you're producing it yourself anyway? Requiring trucks to plug in at every stop...

You're saying Tesla cars have actual range 20% higher than advertized? Why would Elon advertize his truck as 500 mile range if it'll get 600? Tesla would be the first company ever to advertise honest range. As a prudent operator I am looking for fuel/recharge at a quarter tank. I've run out...

In the real world the trucks on the stage will have a maximum range of around 400 miles so I guess if it was doing a run of a hundred miles it could deliver electricity as well but what would be the incentive of the owners to do that? It's going to be interesting as sunshine is a finicky...

Good, well thought out design and site selection would practically eliminate this issue. Good drainage, heated pads and weather resistant covers would be required. Remember existing fuel stations still need to have snow cleared to function as well, virtually all fuel storage is below grade level...

Could still have cable plug in for overnight, long term charging, for areas that don't supply fast chargers or if the fast charger port goes down for some reason. Makes sense, how would that work in the case where AC is being converted to DC? I suppose the DC circuit would still have to be...

Trying to wrap my mind around this. Are you implying Tesla's trucks are going to have enough energy reserve to actually transfer power power from one location to another?