By 2030, no one that has a future in trucking will be using diesel powered trucks;
Until you can charge a battery as fast as you fill a fuel tank, this is nothing more than a pipe dream.
I don't know how feasible that is... But hell... This mother fucker lands rockets ... Something that likely should have been happening for decades. So..............
He's PT Barnum reincarnated and you've just seen his famous sideshow.. Here's the deal --
Go look any total EV manual and find out the charging times versus VOLTAGE/POWER ratings that you have available.. It takes 4 times as long to charge on 110V/20 Amps as it does on 220/40 amps..
At SOME POINT -- as you supply more power -- the battery melts.. But until you hit that POINT -- you're just losing LIFETIME on the batteries by pushing more juice in less time..
So he can DO IT ONCE and write off the battery loss.. But try doing that at truck stop with 220V/80Amp plugs and 22 trucks in the bay.. That should be a HARD HAT ONLY area !!! LOL... And maybe a racing fire suit...
I could get all woke on this.
Don’t the batteries need lithium, or whatever it’s called?
Mined by children in dirt poor parts of Africa.
Good lord. What you are talking about is cobalt. And it is only used in very small amounts in Tesla's new batteries. Tesla has a two sources of lithium, ample for it future purposes, here in the US. A lithium clay on the Nevada, Oregon border, and spodumene in the Peidmont area of the East Coast. They are conducting talks with the Indonesian government concerning a huge nickel mine there. Really fellow, before you post on something, you should do someting to repair your abysmal ignorance on the subject.
Well I would say ignorance abounds then if you think these government subsidized vehicles will be affordable in 5 years.....only for the elitist Dems.
I would say your ignorance can be rated as abysmal; Here are two electrics, neither of them Tesla's, that are well within the budget of most. They are urban vehicles, and the larger one competes head on in price with the base Tesla 3, which puts it at considerable disadvantage.
You bring a link of non Tesla shoeboxes and call me ignorant? Nobody is going to buy these stupid vehicles other than you elitist libbers.
LOL Damn, I see those little shoebox Smart Cars all the time. So there is a market for a small urban vehicle. And the average price for new cars in the US is over $36,000, and you can get a base Tesla 3 for $35,000. Yes, you are very ignorant.
Those are for folks who can afford 2 or 3 cars.. Ever try to take a 60 lb dog to the park and pick up dinner in a 3 wheel golf cart?
So where did all that govt subsidy go that Musk skimmed for 7 or 8 years now on the Tesla 3? Don't tell me the car suddenly became 50% cheaper.. He had to cut price AGAIN last year by 22%.. The US TAXPAYERS paid for his over-rated stock price because THEY didn't get the benefit of the subsidies. Musk's entire life is eating up taxpayer subsidies. ALL of his ventures.. That KILLS competition by choosing the narcissistic golden boy over others.
But BMW, Mercedes and others are about to eat him alive in Europe and elsewhere because they KNOW auto manufacturing, distribution, design..