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Farzad, love your work, a long time subscriber here with almost 2 million miles OTR on semitrucks. Love TSLA and a stockholder.
Love the idea of a Tesla semi, and I believe they will be the future. As of right now, I can see their application on local/regional runs, where most of them are up to 500 miles/day. But at the end of the day, only the large fleets can accommodate parking with chargers, so while the driver rests for 10 hours, or goes home from his terminal, the regular driver or owner operator can not find a suitable place to charge. Also, by DOT requirements, after a max 14 hours of work (wich includes a maximum of 11 hour of driving), every driver needs to take a mandatory minimum 10 hour brake. Once plugged in, that truck will block that charger for 10 hours, nowadays the DOT is monitoring and forcing carriers to monitor by electronic logging devices, any spin of the wheel and punish the drivers and independent contractors. So let's say you plugged in your truck to charge, while finishing your work day, taking your 10 hour brake, but someone has to come back in 3-4 hours to unplug it, and clear the charging spot to avoid additional charges by blocking the charger. Now that driver, has to restart that 10 hour brake, because he had to move the truck into a parking spot a few dozen feet away.
Another issue is charging locations (for now). In the trucking industry, the most imperative problem, is parking. Actually I read an article a few years ago, mentioning the fact, if all the trucks in the US would stop, there wouldn't be enough suitable parking for all the semis at one time. Most of the truckstops are designed for back to back parking, installing so many chargers would take too much room. My belief is Elon is going to help with that, and a lot of investment in land/realestate is required to create the future of truckstops. Now, let's keep in mind, trucking industry has a close to 90% turnover rate. 9 out of 10 new drivers, quit within the first year. A lot newbies out there, that shouldn't be driving a truck, due to lack of experience. I do see them messing up big time in truckstups and fuel lanes, being reckless; those electric chargers would have to be protected heavily from the accidents, given the high voltage. Nowadays by example, diesel fuel lanes are protected by large concrete cylinders, about 5 feet tall fith a diameter of about 4 feet, painted in yellow, weighing tons, and yet, now and then I see one dragged and rolled by a rookie driver.
As far as FSD, no matter how much I love the idea of it, fir right now us a bit difficult, there is a lot if change that needs to happen in the legislation for this to come to fruition. Operating a truck also requires comunicating with weight stations, truck rules are sometimes different and change often even as we are driving down the road. One example would be, getting into a work zone, all of a sudden, you might have to change lanes based on the stretch of the work area, due to signs as "trucks must/use left lane"; that is usually done so the heavy vehicles don't "sink in*" the shoulder, that is now used as the right lane, and is not designed for heavy traffic use.
More challenges that require an experienced operator also arise from the need to make sure the vehicle is compliant with the local, state, and federal regulations; the weight of the load must be adjusted, by going to a weight scale, and if needed, moving the tandems if the trailer, or sometimes even the fifth wheel to spread the weight on axles in order to be legal. No one wants to risk a fine, since many scales have "weigh in motion" sensors, built into the road.
Now to the difficult part; unfortunately the trucking industry faces delays at customers, shippers and receivers; there is no guarantee when you arrive at your location, even with an appointment set, that you will be leaving that place when expected. Many drivers have to wait hours, if not days in one location to get loaded or unloaded. Where to charge? Majority of the time (actually most of the time) truckers run their engines for heat, AC (those cabs overheat in a sunny day like an oven), invertor power for their TV's or microwave oven, so there is a lot of electricity being used.
I have no doubt everything will be alright, but it will take a bit of time.
But for the beginning, I definitely applaud the launch of the 500 miles semi, it will eliminate a lot of pollution from the cities.
When it comes to over the road, truckers would all love it to have it a two seater in the front. Majority are traveling with a companion, being a spouse or child, or a pet, every one wants to have a passenger seat. Also, we need to lean over the window to communicate with a toll or scale operator, or stick our head out to back up into a tight spot. I truly think it's a must, somehow (I an aware, it would affect the aerodynamics of the bobtail).
TSLA to the moon !
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