170 miles WILL NOT get you from Reno to Sacramento
“Pepsi Confirms that They Have Gotten Over 500 Mile Runs Loads Up to the US Highway Max of 82,000 lbs”
Loads of real world data and for commerce operation not arm chair internet conjecture.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/10/pepsi-reveals-everything-about-the-tesla-semi-trucks.html
As a note to the above post 15 L2 charges only need 216KVa for the full load of 30 vehicles they will charge over night that’s one dedicated little green box transformer that we see every day next to the street in the neighborhood. On a 100 unit complex there will be one of those for every 4 units so already 25 on site adding one more is trivial in grid load the 12,200 V triple phase at the pole is 17.5 amps of current on open air pole to pole conductors rated in the thousands of amps. So much FUD so little facts and math. A small percentage of users vastly over use gasoline and that is the only argument against EV is how to cater to those 20% or the top 10% of users the and we is you don’t. Hybrids make sense for those long distances with alcohols or hydrogen when not if liquid hydrocarbons are too expensive to burn to the sky. For the one or two trips per year the other 75% make outside of a 300 mile range EV you rent a hybrid and be done with it.
Huh? I've often driven from SF to Reno via Sacramento, and back. About 100 miles from SF to Sacramento, and another 130 miles into Reno. Total 230 miles or so SF to Reno.
130 miles Reno to Sacramento via Hwy I-80. So yes, 170 mile range will get you there. Additional factor for EV semi-trucks is the use of regenerative braking which will give much added range for the downhill run to the Sacramento valley. I have an EV, and the used range going up the mountains is reclaimed into the batteries going back down.