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
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“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”
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“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
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“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)
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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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