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2 and 3 may be on point but 1, not close.Just some points here
1. Tesla has never delivered a 600mi class 8 truck, and they won't for many years. The delays are because they can't produce the specs they defined, just like with the Model S Plaid (later rebranded Plaid+).
2. Brands like Daimler & Volvo seem to outsiders like they are playing catch up, but both have been designing, building, and validating electric class 8 trucks for years now. Their specs look much worse than Tesla's because they are quoting numbers from units they have built and put into customers hands.
3. Electric class 8 trucks are absolutely viable. It will be at least 5 years until we see them hauling cross country in large numbers, but there are plenty of existing use cases.
They could in fact produce both, but not profitably, yet.1. Tesla has never delivered a 600mi class 8 truck, and they won't for many years. The delays are because they can't produce the specs they defined, just like with the Model S Plaid (later rebranded Plaid+).
It takes 40.7 KwH to equal 1 gallon of diesel. I own diesel trucks with very short local routes. They only burn about 65 gallons per day which is quite low in the trucking world and is a local route, never going more than 20 miles. That would require 2,646 KwH of electricity. A standard model 3 has a 50 KwH battery. That's 53 Model 3 battery packs for one low mileage truck if I charge to 100% and deplete to 0% everyday. That Model 3 battery pack weighs 1,060#s so I'd need more than my entire legal payload just to carry the batteries alone, to equal 65 gallons of diesel fuel (weight about 400#s).
There is a huge difference in a mistake in napkin math & being totally out of your depth.Apologize for my poor napkin math.
There has to be a way to equate say 300 hp/ 1000 tq (just a guesstimate on cruising power needs) fuel usage directly over to how much battery juice that takes. Once you now the rate just calculate the amount of battery juice and it's weight to equal a reasonable amount of diesel fuel.
I'll defer to Tesla. They probably did the napkin math many years ago and have already graduated to a higher level than napkins by now.Apologize for my poor napkin math.
There has to be a way to equate say 300 hp/ 1000 tq (just a guesstimate on cruising power needs) fuel usage directly over to how much battery juice that takes. Once you now the rate just calculate the amount of battery juice and it's weight to equal a reasonable amount of diesel fuel.