Tesla Semi Truck

[Texasdude74]

(11-21-2017 )Rawze Wrote:  - Besides the Drug-Addict announcer that was high on something what he was giving the presentation, I think they missed one HUGE important thing in its design...

- The ability to stop somewhere and simply swap power-packs on the fly. Why have to wait for charging when you can just swap it out at a re-fill station and go again?. -- Or am I the only one who has this kind of Duuuh!, why did they not consider that ... thinking?

I’ve been to Tesla more than a few times and they did consider battery swapping initially as well as mounting the batteries under the trailer. The battery pack is 800kwh, which I don’t feel is enough, but it all ready weighs roughly 18klbs. Swapping quickly would be a bitch and often trucks and trailers are owned by different companies. So they elected to go the 800v 1.6Mwatt Charger route. However, for the charger to work, it requires four Tesla giant batteries that suck power from the grid at a slower pace. Meaning not only can trucks not charge at the same time, but it takes an hour or two before another truck can charge. 1.6Mwatts is that much juice.