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Posted on 12/02/2022 1:47:20 PM PST by inventor30
As Tesla has announced their new semi truck
After which, the battery must be recharged. To do this in one hour(and IDoubt you will see this) would require a generator of 1000000 watts, or one megawatt(approximately) At 480 volts, three phase, the most common industrial grid voltage in the US, this requires about 12 wires ,each about the size of a large mans thumb, to carry this much electricity Or, about the average use of more than 400 houses. This is per truck. Cannot see this happening.
Is there supposed to be a link or something?
How about a gasoline tanker truck? Drivers staying overnight at a motel should take the room back, way back, from the lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r-yN8SugWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF-ubRP2ihc
Governments want electric vehicles because they can be tracked and controlled. They can be turned off. A nice 65 Mustang has to be spotted on the road. You can fill it up anywhere. And the driver is the only one who can turn it off.
A Tesla loses energy all the time. A battery stores energy for a while but it also loses energy as it sits. Or as the temperature cools. Or as the batteries degrade.
Moving to electric is less about the environment and more about government control.
A rough calculation shows 1.2 million pounds of water needed to douse a battery fire. (scaling vs. current ev car fires).
You’re correct to a point.
But it won’t be long before the license plate that goes on ANY type/year of vehicle will have a connection to the deep state.
Them damn horseless carriages are never going to amount to anything.
Not only that, you can only charge it if the government allows it, when they allow it and how much they allow.
Just try charging for cash somewhere, ain’t gonna happen. you have to register the vehicle and have permission (via the charging app) before the machine will even turn on.
With the future of our electric grid, we will be screwed. 3rd world power grid is coming.
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You obviously did not watch the reveal.
It operates at 1000 volts, not 480v. DC not AC nor Three phase. You sound like a guy with electrical knowledge of AC. DC is a different world.
The charge cable is about the same size/thickness as the cars, do to higher DC volts and active (liquid) cooling.
You are also confusing MW rating of a charger with usage over time. At your house you are are charged at KWh, 1 kw for 1 hour. It is the same AMOUNT of electricity if I take 10kw for 6 minutes. DUH.
It’s possible, it’s happening. Now what we should do about the power grid is another topic. I happen to work in IT. IT consumes WAY more power than all the electric cars on the road today. Nobody says beans about it.
This may come as a shock to you, but we have lots more power infrastructure today than we did in 1940. We build these things called power plants. They can run on nuclear. They can run on natural gas. They can run on coal. I prefer nuclear and natural gas, but hey, let the best/cheapest win. Get the government red tape reduced and start building SAFE nuclear plants....See the cost of energy drop to 1-2 cents/KWH.
. . . what’s the other half made of . . . . ?
Wow. Imagine the pollution going into the sky.
Hope Ponch and Jon pulled them out with two seconds to spare.
I keep a points distributor around for my 70 Opel GT and my 69 Continental Mark 3, just in case
Why wouldn’t it be a hybrid? Makes no sense otherwise.
The bad news is the trailer they haul behind is completely full of the batteries. No room left for cargo.
What was also exciting to me is that Elon said at the unveiling that the technology would be available on the renewable. Imagine being able to go 200 miles towing a boat and then recharge in 10 minutes. He also mentioned the need for Nuclear power along with renewables.
You should watch the video. One of the features of the Semi is regenerative braking. When a Semi comes down a mountain, it doesn’t use the brakes. The change in PE is put back into the battery. This makes trucks on hills much safer for everyone. There are three motors. One for cruise and two for torque. Shifting is automatic responding to operator demand.
Also, there is a megawatt charging station that goes with the system. The charging cable is liquid cooled to reduce size to about that of a standard Tesla supercharging station.
you mean the cyber truck. I don’t give a damn where the energy comes from....Let the cheapest cost win. (it will be natural gas and nuclear).
Musk is smart enough to know all the global warming climate change is BS, but wiley enough to leverage it. Thus why he mentions nuclear, which is why liberal heads explode.
BTW, SpaceX will become a nuclear operator. You can count on that.
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