Watch A Tesla Semi Truck Lay Down Rubber While Accelerating Hard
While it’s probably the least relevant stat for such a vehicle, we can’t help but be astonished at Tesla’s claim that minus trailer (or ‘bobtail’), its Semi can do 0-60mph in five seconds. Around about as fast as an E46 BMW M3, in other words.
Well, now we have our first chance to see a trailer-less Tesla lorry accelerating hard. In a 25mph zone. Naughty.
It just looks odd, doesn’t it? The prototype is seen laying down some rubber, before disappearing into the distance at a rate that doesn’t seem feasible for such a large vehicle.
Bobtail-configurated acceleration is fun to watch and all, but much more important is the vehicle’s range. That’ll start at 500 miles, and Tesla says it’ll be possible to recharge from empty to 400 miles in just 30 minutes. The caveat is these charging speeds require a ‘Megacharger’, a new kind of DC charging station which the Californian firm would need to install at destination points and/or along busy routes.
Tesla intends to put the Semi into production during 2019, but given the persistent issues the company has been experiencing with the manufacture of the Model 3, it may well end up being a little later.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Atleast Electric makes more sense here
WOAH. so still no good electric trucks until 2k20?????
The future doesnt look so bad after all
I don’t know why I expected the video to be exciting
a rolling burnout is a feat for any vehicle, let alone a semi truck with 4 massive wheels to break loose.
Bloody hell!
If they can get the range Tesla is claiming, then that’s excellent. An electric lorry would make so much sense - you really need the torque there and with the high distances they are traveling, they make up for the pollution the battery production causes in no time.
Not to mention the reduced noise pollution coming from the vehicle itself.
Yeah that’s true. I used to join my grandfather for some tours transporting milk and you always can hear that buzzing noise frome that 15 liter v6 wich can be pretty annoying when you sit there for 10 hours (which he doesn’t need to do because it’s not that far but still…)
I agree with you on this, though I just wanted to add a thing; Noise of rolling tires driving on pavement is found to be the biggest contributor of highway noise which increases with higher vehicle speeds. This means that, yes, there is a reduction in noise as electric cars don’t have a combustion engine, but there is probably still a lot of murmur from the tires rolling.
Based on the reliability of Tesla, I think it’s unlikely that the truck will reach particularly a high mileage before the batteries need replaced.
I highly recommend you to see a video in youtube from real engineering. It has tesla truck in the title…I can’t remember it exactly. He does some math with a 1% steep road and the range decreases miserably…
Energie aint free or without polution. Means even electro truck needs his juice and there you have your polution. We need good Nuclearpowerplants or some Renewable energy for that kind of polution reduction.But they are really good in the cities where they dont pollute our Overpolluted streets. Leave diesel to do big distances and use teslas for delivery in the cities. At least till we mange to increase renewable energie production and improve bateries.
So to get a proper range we need to buy the truck
Well you can always buy a trailer for external batteries
That’s actually quite bad as when it’s hauling something which you normally don’t need to fasten down or not as much, everything will fall over.
Pretty sure no one would do hard acceletations while hauling things
But you are aware that things like securing the load do exist, right?
No sensible lorry driver would accelerate as drastically as to cause that to happen. Don’t invent a problematic hypothesis where there is none
Let’s just hope Tesla get their act together and actually produce this thing in the numbers they can sell.
Electric lorries are great, loads of tourque, no crazy gearboxes, much better acceleration and makes up for alot of pollution. But i think electricity should stick to commercial vehicles
Or perhaps in a way that won’t affect us petrol-loving lads. I mean, if most people go EV, it would be nice for governments to let some leeway for us petrolheads…some sort of exemption or something…but that sounds like a far-fetched dream.
No differentials to maintain, either.