Tesla Truck event – video – update 3

Left to right: Tesla Truck, Elon Musk, Tesla Truck
Credit: Tesla/SlashGear


Tesla Truck – view through the windscreen – note central seating position & screens on either side
Credit: Tesla

Updates Saturday 18 & Monday 20 November – two new videos – text updates in this font.

Update 15 December – added Tesla's video of the entire event – 35 minutes.

Some highlights:

● 500 mile (800 km) range – full load at highway speed
● Megachargers add 400 miles of range in 30 minutes
● Network of Megachargers world wide
● driver sits in the centre with a screen on either side
● passenger/alternate driver seat is behind & to one side

● one million miles (1.6 million km) without a breakdown! – guaranteed! – with four motors, two can fail & the truck can complete delivery – & still out-torque a diesel

● “You never need to replace brake pads ever.” – long brake life is a recognised advantage of electric vehicles because in large measure, braking is regenerative – also improving range, efficiency & total cost of ownership

● enhanced autopilot standard¹
● platooning included²

● torque vectoring enabled by 4 motors with microsecond control makes jack-knifing “impossible”

● “A diesel truck will be 20% more expensive than a Tesla semi per mile ... worst case scenario.”

● with platooning, make that 100% more efficient
● with platooning, efficiency exceeds rail
● “Production begins 2019.”

Video of the entire event – if you don't have 35 minutes, check the next video down





And, “some unannounced”?³ – the new Tesla Roadster

● 0-60 mph 1.9 seconds – that's 1.44 g⁴ – first production vehicle to go under 2 seconds

● 0-100 mph 4.2 seconds
● quarter mile 8.9 seconds
● 250 mph (402 km/h) top speed

● “The new Tesla Roadster will be the fastest production car ever made – period.” This means a top speed in excess of the 257.87 mph (415 km/h) (arguably 267.856 mph (431.072 km/h)) attributed to the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, World Record Edition.⁵ Alternatively, as Elon Musk has done before, it may be a reference to the 0-60 mph time – &/or 0-100 mph &/or quarter mile times.

● 200 kWh battery pack
● range 620 miles (just under 1,000 km)

● three motors – two driving the rear, one driving the front

● 2+2 seating
● available 2020

“Roadster Test Ride” video below, includes 0-60 mph in under 2 seconds.


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¹ “Enhanced autopilot”, aka, “full self driving capability”, as Tesla describes it on their Model S order page: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/pdkXbCCJ7TzXm184bA-N2-w2PbE=/1800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9022425/autopilot.png

² hhg2Tech: “Platooning lets trucks make better use of roads, save fuel & reduce greenhouse gasses”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2016/04/platooning-lets-trucks-make-better-use.html

³ hhg2Tech: “Tesla Truck – new teaser image + invites to unveiling event”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2017/11/tesla-truck-new-teaser-image-invites-to.html

⁴ 60 mph = 96.56 kph
= (96.56 * 1000) / (60 * 60) metres per second
= 26.822 metres per second

final velocity = initial velocity + acceleration * time
26.822 = 0 + acceleration * 1.9
26.822 = acceleration * 1.9
26.822/1.9 = acceleration
acceleration = 14.117 metre/sec/sec

Acceleration due to gravity = 9.8 metre/sec/sec

acceleration = 14.117 / 9.8 g
acceleration = 1.44 g

⁵ Wikipedia: “Production car speed record”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_car_speed_record#Bugatti_Veyron_limiter_removal

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