Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive

Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by panick21_ on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:39AM (#33864271)

Electric Semi will weigh slightly more, but they will most of the time break with regenerative breaking meaning less tier and break ware.

But you are correct that a modal shift to rail makes a lot of sense.

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Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by VBprogrammer on Monday December 05, 2022 @07:02AM (#33864449)

I imagine most American states have their own limits on axle weight as in Europe. In the UK 44t is the heaviest you can run without additional permitting etc.

It will just be an additional constraint, there are lots of loads which are limited by cubic volume rather than weight. However, it wouldn't work well for say bulk tippers which are almost always at their weight limits (and transporting lots of low value products).

I'm not sure about the braking argument. Trucks spend most of their time cruising along. They also have exhaust brakes and retarders to avoid using the service brakes on hills for example.

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Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by panick21_ on Monday December 05, 2022 @09:00AM (#33865717)

> Trucks spend most of their time cruising along.

Not inside of cities and places were humans live.

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Re:Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive by alach11 on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @10:03AM (#33881087)

Regenerative braking will reduce brake wear but not tire wear.

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