A post on X shows that Costco now has a Tesla Semi in their fleet:
Zanegler said that there would be ~9 new customers showing up over the next bit:
Zanegler said that there would be ~9 new customers showing up over the next bit:
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First, that all depends on your route/loads. It is possible that some of them will use less than 500kWh/day.I'm more interested in the charging facilities for these (and other brand big trucks) at their main depots. Theoretically they need to be putting upwards of 500kWh back in the battery each night, and have 12 hours to do it? So they need to be >40kW at a minimum. I'd expect them to have a couple of the megachargers available too, to handle quick turnarounds in the same day.
I guess your point is that current SEMI battery design won’t support swapping and charging the battery is faster than swapping. That’s really a Good point that no one had realized ! lolMost of the trucks have batteries under the cab as well as on the side of the frame. Replacing them is not trivial!
Also keep in mind there are coolant connections as well as electrical connections. It’s not really fast or easy to change packs….charging them takes much less time!
I'll just say that given one of the delays for the Tesla Semi was lack of available batteries, having extra packs sitting around doing nothing waiting for a Semi to come get a pack changed would be bad. As that would mean fewer Semis could be built and on the road. And we need as many on the road as possible.It actually makes more sense to have these semis to adopt battery swap strategy.
it will be even better if the Battery can be easily swapped (unloaded and loaded) in small blocks by the crew loading the goods.
I'm not aware of either piece of information. I assume the Semi is just rolling out to more "fleet test" partners and not an actual sale which is why we do not have price. I have not seen any actual tractor weight info available either.Has Tesla released prices or weight of the Semi?