FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks

Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by paranoidrobot on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:02AM (#16685983)

Do you think Fedex (20), Walmart (15), Anheuser-Busch (40), Pepsico (100), and UPS (125) would have put down money to buy hundreds of these without checking if they can actually carry a load?

They're being rated to carry a 80,000lb load at highway speeds for 500 miles - clearly the weight distribution isn't a problem.

The other thing you're forgetting is that it's not a battery vs fuel weight you need to compare it's battery+motor vs engine+transmission+gearbox+fuel+urea+etc.

There's so much less that needs to be in an electric truck.

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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by lunchbreak on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:42AM (#16686225)

True points - though I would think for at least FedEx and UPS carry significant amount of light cargo in some trucks (boxes with empty space around the actual contents, and other lighter contents) compared to other trucking groups which carry almost solid cargo (a truck carrying sugar for example). Pepsi specifically is an interesting one - because I assume that most of the cargo space is liquid, though I wonder how much empty space is in their cargo areas due to round bottles

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Re:FedEx reserves 20 Tesla Semi all-electric big rig trucks by femidav on Thursday March 29, 2018 @08:27AM (#16706413)

Battery alone (for 500-miles range) will weight more than double of engine+transmission+gearbox+fuel of 2000-miles range ICE semi.

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