Are we being forced to go electric?

[CXRAndy]

Pepsi have been using them a couple of months. The majority of their fleet, works 12 hours a day doing local drop off under a 100 miles. 3-4 of the trucks do longer haul between 250-400 miles.

Drivers reporting recharge times from 10-80% in 35 mins with the mega Watt superchargers. .

Early days. Extremely promising for the haulage industry.

 

[classic33]

Pepsi have been using them a couple of months. The majority of their fleet, works 12 hours a day doing local drop off under a 100 miles. 3-4 of the trucks do longer haul between 250-400 miles.

Drivers reporting recharge times from 10-80% in 35 mins with the mega Watt superchargers. .

Early days. Extremely promising for the haulage industry.

Promising!
They, Pepsi, don't have use of a quarter of their current fleet, and you call it promising.

They're also having problems with the superchargers. One is out of action, which also put one of the trucks out of action.

 

[Jenkins]

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Great, so now vehicles will get even heavier and cause more road damage.

In that case you should hope that don't start selling the new Cadillac Escalade IQ over here (although I don't know about Germany)

It's 18' 8" (5.7m) long, 7' 10" wide ( 2.4m) and 6' 4" (1.93m) high. No official weight figure has been issued, but around 3800kg and upward has been suggested!

 

[Alex321]

They do, except that in our village they account for 10% of traffic.

Wow. That is high, particularly for a village. Which probably means they account for much more than 90% of the road damage tere.

If other vehicles are allowed to become heavier, as well as being more dangerous and using more power, they will collectively cause more damage, meaning roads will need repairing which means more oil will be needed to repair them.

Not to any noticeable extent. It might go from 1% to 1.1%

ALso, as mentioned above the same 'solution' is being touted for HGV's, so they'll now cause more damage.

Yes, that would certainly be true

 

[CXRAndy]

Promising!
They, Pepsi, don't have use of a quarter of their current fleet, and you call it promising.

They're also having problems with the superchargers. One is out of action, which also put one of the trucks out of action.

Just because they haven't got the full complement of vehicles yet, doesn't mean things are not rosy.

Having a supercharger out of action doesn't take the vehicle permanently out of service. They share another supercharger.

I'm expecting Tesla will shake up the trucking industry like it's done to cars

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm expecting Tesla will shake up the trucking industry like it's done to cars

If you define "shaking up" as making bold claims, failing to fulfill them, and instead propping up your company on massive government subsidies, then he's shaken up the industry very well.

 

[Jenkins]

How would you assess such a statement. Just because a vehicle has 400bhp on tap doesn't mean 400bhp is utilised.

My model S has over 600 bhp but I rarely unleash the full power. In fact my 150 mile round trip per day I average over 4 miles per kW.

That would point to running my car very conservatively.

Environmentally then would it be how much the vehicle pollutes whilst driven.?

I know you've posted why you do such mileage before, but isn't this part of the problem - no matter what the energy source used?

 

[classic33]

Just because they haven't got the full complement of vehicles yet, doesn't mean things are not rosy.

Having a supercharger out of action doesn't take the vehicle permanently out of service. They share another supercharger.

I'm expecting Tesla will shake up the trucking industry like it's done to cars

They haven't got anywhere near the 50+ that were promised. Nor are they likely to get the full order placed and promised.

The charger was the problem.
And is currently before the courts, again for patent infringement. Paperwork filed last week, with the Texas court system.

Their charger network may yet be switched off.

 

[youngoldbloke]

In that case you should hope that don't start selling the new Cadillac Escalade IQ over here (although I don't know about Germany)

It's 18' 8" (5.7m) long, 7' 10" wide ( 2.4m) and 6' 4" (1.93m) high. No official weight figure has been issued, but around 3800kg and upward has been suggested!

That thing is an obscenity.

 

[classic33]

My tariffs are 100% renewable

I'm lucky to have space for 100kW solar system -planning permission granted

Never use(d) the network charging system?

 

[Andy in Germany]

That thing is an obscenity.

Yes, and it's funny how in all these adverts there's never any other traffic.

 

[Jameshow]

My tariffs are 100% renewable

I'm lucky to have space for 100kW solar system -planning permission granted

Do you have a separate national grid?!

 

[Alex321]

Promising!
They, Pepsi, don't have use of a quarter of their current fleet, and you call it promising.

Yes. The fact they have them, and are getting a reasonabe number working is "promising". It would be more than just promising if they were getting them all running.

 

[classic33]

Yes. The fact they have them, and are getting a reasonabe number working is "promising". It would be more than just promising if they were getting them all running.

Fleet is 25% down on what they had, with problems caused by the charging system leading to five being removed from service. There are no replacements available.
And its classed as "promising"?

 

[Alex321]

Fleet is 25% down on what they had, with problems caused by the charging system leading to five being removed from service. There are no replacements available.
And its classed as "promising"?

Absolutely.

As I had said in the post you quoted.

Those can quite reasonably be expected as teething troubles.

If you think "promising" means "it is already as good", then I think you need to look the word up.