Lars, thank you for this excellent Tesla Semi review. You covered many of the essential points, enough for the layman to understand. And the professionals are already at the exhibits... or not. Another Great BestinTesla ;o)
Just moving to battery powered trucks will mean not getting stuck behind slow moving trucks going uphill and trucks slowly getting up to speed when entering a highway.
I took delivery of my first Tesla on Friday, the Cyberbeast. I have to say less than a week into being a Cybertruck owner I am totally spoiled, I do not want to drive anything else. The Cyberbeast is amazingly smooth, agile, and capable. The other thing that has really surprised me is how little electricity the Cybertruck actually uses. Over the 160 miles (257KM) in past 6 days I have owned the Cybertruck I have used less electricity to power it, than I have to power the desktop gaming computer I am typing this message on.
One of my friends bought a Cybertruck intending to flip it in January. Instead, he so fell in love with it, he'll keep it. Note, he said this after griping about no wheel covers, late extended battery, and no FSV. He still loves it.
_"I have used less electricity to power it, than I have to power the desktop gaming computer"_ Utter and complete bullshit. Your CT, on a good day, might manage 2KWh/mile, so that's 320KWh, or 320,000Wh. Unless you're running a Cray supercomputer as your "gaming PC", then just shut the hell up...
Tesla police cars: Even at its current level 2 driver assistance, FSD has to be hudge for a patrolman who can observe what's going on outside of driving the car. It's got to be a lot like a 2-man team with a driver and an observer without the 2nd salary to pay.
The semi and ct are the most impactful by far in this regard. Diesel is the dirtiest most polluting fuel, has the most harmful particulate matter expelled from those noisy stinking exhausts. Uses def fluid which is 9# a gallon and requires urea mining and diesels run hotter vs gas! Example in America a reg full size pickup truck is driven over 15,000 miles a year and gets according to fuelly just 17mpg(real world experience as a truck owner for work purposes since the late 90s tells me that's to high of an est. So each pickup truck which are mostly overgrown cowboy cadillacs&pavement princesses. Consumes 800-1,000+gallons of gas at 7# per gallon in just fuel weight. Doesn't count the mining, chemicals and water used at multiple steps to extract it, transport it, refine it, transport it again etc. So that's 5,000-6,500# of fuel not being burned each year an ev truck is used. No wonder the fossil fuel industry is panicking over modern evs!😀 An average semi truck here in America gets 6.5-7.5mpg and travels 60,000+miles a year(I know guys who do double that number on their privately owned rigs. And each 7# gallon of diesel requires mining, water, chemicals and cobalt just to refine it+def fluid. All those processes use energy and fuel and won't be needed anymore with evs. So each semi sold will replace 45,000-70,000# of diesel fuel weight alone from being consumed each year. 👍🏻😎
@@4literv6 Biofuels are also bad -- I recently read that they were several times worse than coal. I stopped burning wood several years ago and got a Cybertruck to replace my Model 3 and Tundra used to plow my long, long drive. People out here in pickup country love the Cybertruck.
Will be interesting to see how FSD handles variable wheel base lengths, not all trailers are the same. Future Trailers could feature a low cost, wide angle, drive by wire, rear wheel steering dolly, for those small city streets where damage is common.
A couple of weeks ago I watched a drone vid of Tesla Germany plant and saw 2 Tesla simis on wooden shipping platforms having just arrived from the port. !
Nevada USA Clean Trucks and Buses Incentive Program, which would offer base incentives ranging from $20,000 to $175,000 to businesses willing to replace their delivery trucks, buses and other heavy- and medium-duty trucks with zero-emission. If Tesla Semi is $300,000 with the Nevada incentives you will save money straight away.
I lived in Europe for several years. Great people, good fruit trees and orchards, rapid season changes, incredible mountains, fine Autobahns (strade, routes, etc 🙂). But two main take-ways were (1) how old stuff (buildings, roads, politics, etc.) can be and (2) how "close" everything is together. Often Europeans have no conception how "big" the United States is; how far apart destinations can be, particularly from port or factory to consumer. Actually this makes everything much better for the (quiet and non-polluting) Tesla Semi. Both the standard and the extended ranges "fit" the human geography much better. Watching the rest of the video and all the images of trucks over-turning reminds me that the Semi is a software-defined vehicle. As such, it should be far safer to drive (for truckers and other vehicles on the road) and can at the very least warn before and document after accident situations.
Europe is definitely packed denser than the US of A! But it is not that small! A truck transporting fresh produce from southern Spain to Hammerfest, Norway, has actually a slightly longer road than a US one going from Miami to Seattle! OK! I agree! Few trucks do that road! But it's just to say that European long-haul trucking operations can be REALLY long-haul!
@@st-ex8506 Indeed, you are right about that and, oddly, I have driven that road myself (not in a truck and not all the way to Norway, but almost). However, Europe is made up of nation-states, many of which are smaller than most US states, but much denser. So in-country distances seem less.
@@WarrenLacefield That is true! But only because of the vast expenses of the Great Plain and Mountain states + Alaska, which account for only ca. 5% of the US population, but nearly 40% of the surface. That is true enough, we don't have anything that big in Europe! But consider where 95% of the population lives, and Europe (without Russia and Belarus, which trade almost nothing with the EU, at least by road) is roughly the same size. Distributing stuff in California or Texas, involves roughly the same distances than doing the same in France or Spain. While there is no dispute that the USA are larger (otherwise, I would be silly, wouldn't I), I pretend that the distances covered by most trucking operations are not so different.
@@st-ex8506 I sure think we are in agreement about that. And I think (barring any difficulties with vehicle size regulations, etc.) the Tesla Semi will match Europe's needs for tractor-trailer transportation very well. I also think it will be a big success in the USA, for now both for local and regional haulage and later, as V4 Superchargers become frequent at truck stops and intermediate destinations, for the long-haul business as well. Like many others, I am excited about this product, particularly because it will really reduce expressway noise and pollution and greatly increase safety for truckers, other drivers, and passengers on the highways.
The trailers have a lot to contribute to tractor trailers. Trailers currently come equipped with brakes. Switch to e motors to harness regen and you have an amazing hauler. But add computer controlled rear wheel steering and you have incredible maneuverability that will affect not just day to day driving but vehicle safety, maneuverability in tight places, assistance for black ice and jackknife situations and rollovers brought on by taking a turn too fast, slanted grades, high wind conditions. The opportunities far outweigh the urge to not. A lot of trucks are specialized, like car carrying tractor trailers, logging trucks, fuel tankers and liquid and fluid (grains are fluids and not liquids) trucks. Long straight trucks like garbage / recycling trucks, trucks delivering construction materials, cement trucks, all of these are specialized enough that they get customized for their task. Building these on a base unit that is an electric truck is not a big shift since so much is customized already.
I am looking so much foreward to Tesla semi trucks in Denmark. The noice, slow acceleration on highway + the polution from diesel trucks are so bad here .
Enligt Christian Levin (VD) har Scania redan investerat så mycket att bolaget klarar att leverera 25 000-30 000 eldrivna lastbilar om året. Problemet är att åkare inte köper och det mest pga att infrastrukturen inte finns att klara längre sträckor och övernattningar.
I can understand that. You just have to watch one oof the video of the Elektrotrucker, a German e-truck driver, to see how much the truck charging infrastructure in Germany still sucks. But then, WHY is Scania, optimally with some partners, do nothing to set it up, just like Tesla did?
I am stoked about the semi and would love to wake up tomorrow with every diesel replaced by a Tesla semi... BUT... we have to acknowledge that installing all the megapacks and electrical substations will slow deployment for years. And Tesla can't sell trucks that have no place to charge. So I am really tempering my expectations for sales. I think they will actually need as wide a geographical net as possible so that as grids around the world work as fast as they each can, Tesla will be able to send them semis. I think N. America and Europe will both be needed to get even close to being able to add enough chargers cumulatively for 50,000 Tesla semis per year.
You have to wonder if introducing the Tesla Semi truck to the market will help bring younger OTR drivers to the market to help fill the gap of needed drivers. I would think it would a lot.
Some huge errors in this video. Scania produces about 100.000 trucks per year, not one million. Also one BIG difference between cars and trucks is that trucks are a commercial product, i.e you buy it to MAKE money not to spend money, which is the case with most cars. So the truck market is much more tailor-made than cars, which can be generalized. Still, I think the Tesla semi will be a big success. It is yet another category killer.
Got my first model 3. Best car I’ve driven in 37 years or so. On the cybertruck heck it looks ok and is a ev truck competitor but the flaw’s really look disappointing… the Ev silverado versions all look much better. They should trash/recycle the bad cyber trucks and not sell or make an other till it can at least outshine Silverado in more than just a few ways. I can’t wait for a Silverado truck ev version 2…& Im not a huge truck fan.
When chargers are at most stations (e.g., supermarket truck dock) this will drive economics removing diversions to truck stops for fuel (excluding long haul, which should be on trains).
An important note. The largest semi producer in the US sold 97k new Semis in America in 2023. Tesla plans to sell 50k. What would you do, as a company, if half your sales vanished overnight? What will truck stops do when they lose 50k semis a year for 3 years? How long until they start closing? How many millions of gallons of diesel will not be sold in the next 5 years?
Large trucks use a lot of fuel. Assume 50k battery powered trucks from Tesla each year plus another 10k or more from other manufacturers and we should see a meaningful drop in oil demand. Then add in the rapid increase in EV sales. Big Oil is going to be on the wane.
_"Tesla plans to sell 50k."_ When? In 50 years? The poor-selling complete disaster that is Cybertruck already put huge stress on the capacity to produce cells, so where do you think cells for the Semi will come from? Fairyland? Delusional nonsense like this has to stop...
Lars (or anyone reading this post) is there any news as to when TESLA themselves will have 1:1 replaced (at least in the U.S.) all their “own” diesel semitrucks carrying for instance battery packs between factories, delivering cars, etc.?
This would be great to see in Spain/Portugal to electrify their freight industries with the cheapest renewable energy in Europe!! Surprised the BYD are not offering these in Europe as well? Cybertruck not really made for scalene I wonder even if they are making profits on these yet?
I think a safe guess is within five years. First, Tesla has to complete FSD which may take another year. Then it is likely to take a year to collect sufficient data to allow driverless car operation. At first, driverless cars will not be permitted in all locations, it will take a bit of time for the entire country to accept them. And then, I suspect, we'll see driverless trucks. We might see test routes, such as the Fremont factory and Reno factory, permitted around the time robotaxis are operating in some markets.
wont be on city streets for a long time I think…? but I can see freeway-side stations where robo trucks pick up and drop off trailers for long freeway trips… and then people pick up trailers for city driving
@@TurdFergusen If Tesla cars can drive themselves on city streets, then Tesla trucks will be able to drive on city streets. And Tesla cars are driving extremely well on city streets right now.
@@bobwallace9753 the question being can they drive with a 40ft trailer and make tight turns ? i think thatll take more time and require cameras on trailers… but we’ll see
@@TurdFergusen Can a human with only two eyes set a couple inches apart see well enough to make a tight turn with a 40 foot trailer? Can a human driver monitor both leading edges of the truck at the same time? Can a human driver watch both sides of the trailer at the same time while backing up? "The Tesla Semi has many cameras in various locations, including: Windshield: Three cameras are mounted on the top of the windshield, including a wide-angle lens, a telephoto lens, and a camera with a typical lens. The telephoto lens can see up to 250 meters ahead, while the main lens covers 150 meters. Front bumper: A camera is mounted in the front bumper. Side mirrors: An updated prototype of the Tesla Semi had three cameras in its side mirrors, one at the bottom, one at the far end, and one encased like the B-pillar cameras. Headlight assembly: Cameras are mounted discreetly within the headlight assembly. " And, if necessary, there's no reason why a camera couldn't be attached to the rear of the trailer to give constant 360 degree vision. Do remember, the computer is able to constantly attend to the input from all of those cameras. It doesn't need to shift attention to one side of the road and then back to the other. It won't blink, sneeze, or doze off.
YWou point out companies can have magapacks to charge their Tesla Semis. One magapack with installation is about $2million dollars. If a company has that sort of money it has to ask itself should it buy 15 diesel semis instead. That is a lot of product being shifted rather than a big battery sat in your parking lot. How come we accept the Semi not being ramped until near 10 years after its announcement yet expect the Robo-taxi and cheapter model next year when we haven't even seen them yet?
Fanbois are too stupid to even understand how much power a megawatt is. Pepsi Sacramento didn't even have enough power at their substation to install chargers. They had to build their own powerline coming from another location. I think it was a 69 kilovolt line
Where's the NIKOLA Hydrogen truck at? Yeah, people were laughing at the TSLA truck when it was first unveiled, due to it not being realistic, LOL Who's laughing now? 😱
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USA TRUCK STOP pumps can up to 40 gallons a minute, 5 to 10 minute fill time, also 3.9 million class 8 trucks in USA so it’ll take more than fifty thousand a year for Europe and USA to make a dent in diesel sales. Almost all semis have exhaust engine compression braking , my Mack’s compression brake feels very similar to my model y’s regen braking.
Truckers or others behind wheels for over 8 hours a day. Non-Electric Trucks that produce carbon monoxide which is dangerous for you- you know this. Don't you care about your health? Your lungs and other diseases? Your engine if ran in closed space, will kill you- you know this. You say you care about your family, but best way to care for them is to care for yourself.
BigRigTravels always needs round about 15 minutes for a refill including payment from arriving at the station until he drives off. It's not 5 to 10 minutes. ---------- And for the e-trucks, the batteries are big enough to drive the allowed hours until the truckers must do a break for about 45 minutes for example in Europe. 45 minutes... That's a long time for charging... And it works for real routes all day long...
DEAR LARS-: THIS IS SOMETHING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INDUSTRY AND IT HAS TO DO WITH PERHAPS UNLIMITED RANGE AND THAT WOULD BE 2 POSSIBLE ADDITIONS TO THESE VEHICLES AND FIRST TO START WITH AND THAT WOULD BE A BICYCLE TYPE GENERATOR ON EACH SEMI WHEEL AND SECONDLY SOLAR ROOF PANELS ON ALL OF THE SURFACES OF THE SEMI- TRAILERS, COULD THIS BE PERHAPS UNLIMITED RANGE ON THESE VEHICLES AND PERHAPS NEVER HAVE TO PLUG IN AGAIN TO FILL THEIR VEHICLES WITH ENERGY EVER AGAIN- ?!?!?!?
50,000 semis sold per year will generate about $10,000,000,000 in revenue for Tesla at pretty decent margins….Elon is building perhaps the greatest group of businesses in history so I’m glad to be a big stock holder!
It's partially in place. There's been a large rapid charger just north of Sacramento which serves the Fremont/Reno route for years. Pepsi has rapid chargers for their Teslas. And Tesla is going to install truck chargers where their customers want them. I do expect to see Tesla set up one coast to coast highway route like they did for the Model S fairly early. 3,000 miles. One station every 200 miles would mean only 15 stations. And those stations could serve runs on each side of the highway.
Interestingly you don’t need massive infrastructure for the semi as it’s really just point to point and over have longer distances, maybe just one in the middle. It’s like 5% of the charging needed for the vehicles. A lot easier to implement and when working with big trucking companies they’ll be keen to fit the charges at their depot, you’ll be quite surprised how quickly this will uptake
Holy shit, when is the nonsense and grift going to end with these painful Tesla fanbois? EV sales have plateaued (which was obvious to anyone with half a brain) and "Tesla fatigue" is *very* real. There will be *NO* "extreme scaling" when there is _no_ market to buy your product. Buyers are bored with Tesla and actual competition is _just_ starting in the EV sector. In 5-10 years, Tesla will be a 3rd-rate manufacturer, if they exist at all...
9.8 million EVs have been sold globally so far this year, growing by 20% Year To Date (YTD) with 1.5 million sold in August 2024. China sold over one million EVs in August 2024, breaking the previous record set in December 2023 by 70,000 vehicles. Now half the market is NEV vehicles. UK EV sales have increased to 25% of vehicle sales. Top 3 markets - China, the US and Europe - In H1, EVs had a 30% share in these markets and were growing by 26%. H1 2024, U.S. electric vehicle sales up 7.3% higher than H1 2023. ICE continues to decline in World sales from peak in 2017 by a third...
@@waynerussell6401 _"China, the US and Europe - In H1, EVs had a 30% share in these markets"_ Bullshit; US Q4 2024 EV sales were 8.0%. Regardless, EV sales are absolutely plateauing in general, it's simple common sense. Specific markets will skew the numbers in places, but the saturation trend is obvious. PHEVs are clearly the way forward for the next 10 years (at the very least).
Lars, thank you for this excellent Tesla Semi review. You covered many of the essential points, enough for the layman to understand. And the professionals are already at the exhibits... or not. Another Great BestinTesla ;o)
I look forward to self-driving trucks on the highways at night, easing congestion in the daytime.
Just moving to battery powered trucks will mean not getting stuck behind slow moving trucks going uphill and trucks slowly getting up to speed when entering a highway.
I took delivery of my first Tesla on Friday, the Cyberbeast. I have to say less than a week into being a Cybertruck owner I am totally spoiled, I do not want to drive anything else. The Cyberbeast is amazingly smooth, agile, and capable. The other thing that has really surprised me is how little electricity the Cybertruck actually uses. Over the 160 miles (257KM) in past 6 days I have owned the Cybertruck I have used less electricity to power it, than I have to power the desktop gaming computer I am typing this message on.
One of my friends bought a Cybertruck intending to flip it in January. Instead, he so fell in love with it, he'll keep it.
Note, he said this after griping about no wheel covers, late extended battery, and no FSV. He still loves it.
which size is your desktop- computer? 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, Windows needs to move to ARM or RISC-V soon…
_"I have used less electricity to power it, than I have to power the desktop gaming computer"_ Utter and complete bullshit. Your CT, on a good day, might manage 2KWh/mile, so that's 320KWh, or 320,000Wh. Unless you're running a Cray supercomputer as your "gaming PC", then just shut the hell up...
Guessing you have a 4090 with an Intel i9 CPU.
Tesla police cars: Even at its current level 2 driver assistance, FSD has to be hudge for a patrolman who can observe what's going on outside of driving the car. It's got to be a lot like a 2-man team with a driver and an observer without the 2nd salary to pay.
Love your videos. So enjoyable and informative. Thank you. ❤
Going to be damn near impossible to compete with the Semi, chargers and megapacks.
You are the best Presenter Thank you. Take care !
And this isn’t his first language!
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The semi and ct are the most impactful by far in this regard. Diesel is the dirtiest most polluting fuel, has the most harmful particulate matter expelled from those noisy stinking exhausts. Uses def fluid which is 9# a gallon and requires urea mining and diesels run hotter vs gas!
Example in America a reg full size pickup truck is driven over 15,000 miles a year and gets according to fuelly just 17mpg(real world experience as a truck owner for work purposes since the late 90s tells me that's to high of an est.
So each pickup truck which are mostly overgrown cowboy cadillacs&pavement princesses. Consumes 800-1,000+gallons of gas at 7# per gallon in just fuel weight. Doesn't count the mining, chemicals and water used at multiple steps to extract it, transport it, refine it, transport it again etc.
So that's 5,000-6,500# of fuel not being burned each year an ev truck is used. No wonder the fossil fuel industry is panicking over modern evs!😀
An average semi truck here in America gets 6.5-7.5mpg and travels 60,000+miles a year(I know guys who do double that number on their privately owned rigs. And each 7# gallon of diesel requires mining, water, chemicals and cobalt just to refine it+def fluid. All those processes use energy and fuel and won't be needed anymore with evs.
So each semi sold will replace 45,000-70,000# of diesel fuel weight alone from being consumed each year. 👍🏻😎
@@4literv6 Biofuels are also bad -- I recently read that they were several times worse than coal. I stopped burning wood several years ago and got a Cybertruck to replace my Model 3 and Tundra used to plow my long, long drive. People out here in pickup country love the Cybertruck.
My motto is "Stop Burning Things!"
Will be interesting to see how FSD handles variable wheel base lengths, not all trailers are the same.
Future Trailers could feature a low cost, wide angle, drive by wire, rear wheel steering dolly, for those small city streets where damage is common.
I love the semi’s, but they’re not gonna make a huge dent in the revenues, not more than five max 10%
A couple of weeks ago I watched a drone vid of Tesla Germany plant and
saw 2 Tesla simis on wooden shipping platforms having just arrived from
the port.
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Nevada USA Clean Trucks and Buses Incentive Program, which would offer base incentives ranging from $20,000 to $175,000 to businesses willing to replace their delivery trucks, buses and other heavy- and medium-duty trucks with zero-emission. If Tesla Semi is $300,000 with the Nevada incentives you will save money straight away.
I listens to this presentation. I didn’t quite understand the big picture. Now I know. Thanks!!!!❤❤❤
GREAT news update, Lars … the future of semitrucks in Europe to be seen and felt (tested) now already at the IAA in Hannover.
I lived in Europe for several years. Great people, good fruit trees and orchards, rapid season changes, incredible mountains, fine Autobahns (strade, routes, etc 🙂). But two main take-ways were (1) how old stuff (buildings, roads, politics, etc.) can be and (2) how "close" everything is together. Often Europeans have no conception how "big" the United States is; how far apart destinations can be, particularly from port or factory to consumer. Actually this makes everything much better for the (quiet and non-polluting) Tesla Semi. Both the standard and the extended ranges "fit" the human geography much better.
Watching the rest of the video and all the images of trucks over-turning reminds me that the Semi is a software-defined vehicle. As such, it should be far safer to drive (for truckers and other vehicles on the road) and can at the very least warn before and document after accident situations.
Europe is definitely packed denser than the US of A! But it is not that small!
A truck transporting fresh produce from southern Spain to Hammerfest, Norway, has actually a slightly longer road than a US one going from Miami to Seattle! OK! I agree! Few trucks do that road! But it's just to say that European long-haul trucking operations can be REALLY long-haul!
@@st-ex8506 Indeed, you are right about that and, oddly, I have driven that road myself (not in a truck and not all the way to Norway, but almost). However, Europe is made up of nation-states, many of which are smaller than most US states, but much denser. So in-country distances seem less.
@@WarrenLacefield That is true!
But only because of the vast expenses of the Great Plain and Mountain states + Alaska, which account for only ca. 5% of the US population, but nearly 40% of the surface. That is true enough, we don't have anything that big in Europe!
But consider where 95% of the population lives, and Europe (without Russia and Belarus, which trade almost nothing with the EU, at least by road) is roughly the same size.
Distributing stuff in California or Texas, involves roughly the same distances than doing the same in France or Spain.
While there is no dispute that the USA are larger (otherwise, I would be silly, wouldn't I), I pretend that the distances covered by most trucking operations are not so different.
@@st-ex8506 I sure think we are in agreement about that. And I think (barring any difficulties with vehicle size regulations, etc.) the Tesla Semi will match Europe's needs for tractor-trailer transportation very well.
I also think it will be a big success in the USA, for now both for local and regional haulage and later, as V4 Superchargers become frequent at truck stops and intermediate destinations, for the long-haul business as well.
Like many others, I am excited about this product, particularly because it will really reduce expressway noise and pollution and greatly increase safety for truckers, other drivers, and passengers on the highways.
Great video and summary! I wish more people would see the future we see 😅
Glad you're back with your old "theme song".
Excellent article. Tesla is giving a very positive view of the future.
The trailers have a lot to contribute to tractor trailers.
Trailers currently come equipped with brakes. Switch to e motors to harness regen and you have an amazing hauler. But add computer controlled rear wheel steering and you have incredible maneuverability that will affect not just day to day driving but vehicle safety, maneuverability in tight places, assistance for black ice and jackknife situations and rollovers brought on by taking a turn too fast, slanted grades, high wind conditions. The opportunities far outweigh the urge to not.
A lot of trucks are specialized, like car carrying tractor trailers, logging trucks, fuel tankers and liquid and fluid (grains are fluids and not liquids) trucks. Long straight trucks like garbage / recycling trucks, trucks delivering construction materials, cement trucks, all of these are specialized enough that they get customized for their task. Building these on a base unit that is an electric truck is not a big shift since so much is customized already.
I am looking so much foreward to Tesla semi trucks in Denmark. The noice, slow acceleration on highway + the polution from diesel trucks are so bad here .
I'm even more looking forward to the improved safety aspects after driving assistance features are improved.
Thank you for your high sophisticated video. A German version would be very helpful.
I want to show my frends and colleagues here in suriname how good these cars are
A good episode of BiT, thanks Lars!
Enligt Christian Levin (VD) har Scania redan investerat så mycket att bolaget klarar att leverera 25 000-30 000 eldrivna lastbilar om året.
Problemet är att åkare inte köper och det mest pga att infrastrukturen inte finns att klara längre sträckor och övernattningar.
I can understand that. You just have to watch one oof the video of the Elektrotrucker, a German e-truck driver, to see how much the truck charging infrastructure in Germany still sucks.
But then, WHY is Scania, optimally with some partners, do nothing to set it up, just like Tesla did?
R. I. P. ⚰️Nikola Motor in year 2025....
(mark my words) 😎
Dedunk 😂 love your creative English Lars
I am stoked about the semi and would love to wake up tomorrow with every diesel replaced by a Tesla semi... BUT... we have to acknowledge that installing all the megapacks and electrical substations will slow deployment for years. And Tesla can't sell trucks that have no place to charge. So I am really tempering my expectations for sales. I think they will actually need as wide a geographical net as possible so that as grids around the world work as fast as they each can, Tesla will be able to send them semis. I think N. America and Europe will both be needed to get even close to being able to add enough chargers cumulatively for 50,000 Tesla semis per year.
I wonder if they’ll attach the hitch to the body’s shell like they did with the cyber truck?
Great review/update as usual Lars thank you 😊
Do you visit the IAA in Hannover this week Lars?
You have to wonder if introducing the Tesla Semi truck to the market will help bring younger OTR drivers to the market to help fill the gap of needed drivers. I would think it would a lot.
It certainly looks better, doesn't pollute, and driver training will be much easier and quicker.
Some huge errors in this video. Scania produces about 100.000 trucks per year, not one million. Also one BIG difference between cars and trucks is that trucks are a commercial product, i.e you buy it to MAKE money not to spend money, which is the case with most cars. So the truck market is much more tailor-made than cars, which can be generalized. Still, I think the Tesla semi will be a big success. It is yet another category killer.
_"Some huge errors in this video..."_ *Some* ? The entire premise and babble of the video is sheer nonsense, pure Elon-spew at its finest.
I wish I could own a tesla model y to❤😢
Fire Extinguisher be smart
Got my first model 3. Best car I’ve driven in 37 years or so.
On the cybertruck heck it looks ok and is a ev truck competitor but the flaw’s really look disappointing… the Ev silverado versions all look much better. They should trash/recycle the bad cyber trucks and not sell or make an other till it can at least outshine Silverado in more than just a few ways.
I can’t wait for a Silverado truck ev version 2…& Im not a huge truck fan.
Would Tesla Semi have drive by wire and FSD?
Yep. They are designed for FSD.
The question isn't whether the truck is best compared to tech, price, etc. The big question is what will happen when the Tesla Truck goes FSD.
When chargers are at most stations (e.g., supermarket truck dock) this will drive economics removing diversions to truck stops for fuel (excluding long haul, which should be on trains).
Regen breaking will also come in handy
Self-driving, battery powered trucks will likely offer lower per mile costs than trains. Plus they can move freight much faster. And door to door.
@@bobwallace9753 That depends on the journey length. I think the amazing fuel efficiency of trains is an advantage.
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We'll have to wait for data to find which of us is right. But I'm betting it's me.
@@bobwallace9753 Fair enough. I am a semi fan, I just have shipped enough to know when rail saves money.
An important note. The largest semi producer in the US sold 97k new Semis in America in 2023. Tesla plans to sell 50k. What would you do, as a company, if half your sales vanished overnight? What will truck stops do when they lose 50k semis a year for 3 years? How long until they start closing? How many millions of gallons of diesel will not be sold in the next 5 years?
short the other OEM's
Short the other OEM's
Large trucks use a lot of fuel. Assume 50k battery powered trucks from Tesla each year plus another 10k or more from other manufacturers and we should see a meaningful drop in oil demand. Then add in the rapid increase in EV sales. Big Oil is going to be on the wane.
_"Tesla plans to sell 50k."_ When? In 50 years? The poor-selling complete disaster that is Cybertruck already put huge stress on the capacity to produce cells, so where do you think cells for the Semi will come from? Fairyland? Delusional nonsense like this has to stop...
All large trucks need an annual engine rebuild as well that costs about $10k.
Lars (or anyone reading this post) is there any news as to when TESLA themselves will have 1:1 replaced (at least in the U.S.) all their “own” diesel semitrucks carrying for instance battery packs between factories, delivering cars, etc.?
can you imagine FSD on tesla semi how easy a drivers job would make pfff lets goo tesla
This would be great to see in Spain/Portugal to electrify their freight industries with the cheapest renewable energy in Europe!! Surprised the BYD are not offering these in Europe as well? Cybertruck not really made for scalene I wonder even if they are making profits on these yet?
It's all impossible. Mission Impossible.
Key questions: Will the Tesla Semi include FSD? Could we see Robo Semis soon?
I think a safe guess is within five years. First, Tesla has to complete FSD which may take another year. Then it is likely to take a year to collect sufficient data to allow driverless car operation. At first, driverless cars will not be permitted in all locations, it will take a bit of time for the entire country to accept them. And then, I suspect, we'll see driverless trucks.
We might see test routes, such as the Fremont factory and Reno factory, permitted around the time robotaxis are operating in some markets.
wont be on city streets for a long time I think…? but I can see freeway-side stations where robo trucks pick up and drop off trailers for long freeway trips… and then people pick up trailers for city driving
@@TurdFergusen
If Tesla cars can drive themselves on city streets, then Tesla trucks will be able to drive on city streets. And Tesla cars are driving extremely well on city streets right now.
@@bobwallace9753 the question being can they drive with a 40ft trailer and make tight turns ? i think thatll take more time and require cameras on trailers… but we’ll see
@@TurdFergusen
Can a human with only two eyes set a couple inches apart see well enough to make a tight turn with a 40 foot trailer? Can a human driver monitor both leading edges of the truck at the same time? Can a human driver watch both sides of the trailer at the same time while backing up?
"The Tesla Semi has many cameras in various locations, including:
Windshield: Three cameras are mounted on the top of the windshield, including a wide-angle lens, a telephoto lens, and a camera with a typical lens. The telephoto lens can see up to 250 meters ahead, while the main lens covers 150 meters.
Front bumper: A camera is mounted in the front bumper.
Side mirrors: An updated prototype of the Tesla Semi had three cameras in its side mirrors, one at the bottom, one at the far end, and one encased like the B-pillar cameras.
Headlight assembly: Cameras are mounted discreetly within the headlight assembly. "
And, if necessary, there's no reason why a camera couldn't be attached to the rear of the trailer to give constant 360 degree vision. Do remember, the computer is able to constantly attend to the input from all of those cameras. It doesn't need to shift attention to one side of the road and then back to the other. It won't blink, sneeze, or doze off.
MY WW2 Sherman tank can smoke your refrigerator on wheels! 😆
Joking . . Or am I? 😁
I'm sure it makes plenty of smoke.
Smoke …. No doubt 😂
2 miles to the gallon I’m guessing? Range must be amazing 😂 old Smokey
Great video, wonderful voice. But why the disracting music over voice? I personally can't watch any more because of it, I'm off.
See the biggest restrictor on adoption that they can put chargers customers location. If it takes a year or two, that’s a major drawback.
Fine
YWou point out companies can have magapacks to charge their Tesla Semis. One magapack with installation is about $2million dollars. If a company has that sort of money it has to ask itself should it buy 15 diesel semis instead. That is a lot of product being shifted rather than a big battery sat in your parking lot. How come we accept the Semi not being ramped until near 10 years after its announcement yet expect the Robo-taxi and cheapter model next year when we haven't even seen them yet?
Fanbois are too stupid to even understand how much power a megawatt is. Pepsi Sacramento didn't even have enough power at their substation to install chargers. They had to build their own powerline coming from another location. I think it was a 69 kilovolt line
Everybody worried about what to do when th robots replace should build Tesla semi factories
Checkmate Checkmate
I can relate
Where's the NIKOLA Hydrogen truck at? Yeah, people were laughing at the TSLA truck when it was first unveiled, due to it not being realistic, LOL Who's laughing now? 😱
You should keep those things 50 feet apart. You know better.
Remember, when Bill Gates said the semi was impossible. Well, I wonder what else he got wrong. 🤔
He never said that!
The Tesla Semi isnt good enough for heavy loads a long distance!Only for lightwreight!So Bill Gates was right!
@@BrunoHeggli-zp3nl " electric vehicles will probably never be a practical solution for things like 18-wheelers" - GatesNotes, August 24, 2020
Elon should ship a Semi to Mercedes COD $1.2 million. :)
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Mercedes will have a driver-less semi truck
it will have a Tesla bot at the wheel
Last a could gaf less….. I made it tytyty Jesus
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An Energy-backed currency ISN'T rare, heavy & hard to store, or otherwise useless.
It's both currency AND commodity. It's also hard to Monopolize....
USA TRUCK STOP pumps can up to 40 gallons a minute, 5 to 10 minute fill time, also 3.9 million class 8 trucks in USA so it’ll take more than fifty thousand a year for Europe and USA to make a dent in diesel sales. Almost all semis have exhaust engine compression braking , my Mack’s compression brake feels very similar to my model y’s regen braking.
I think if it costs a lot less to run a Tesla truckers will figure out how to make it work. Money talks.
Truckers or others behind wheels for over 8 hours a day. Non-Electric Trucks that produce carbon monoxide which is dangerous for you- you know this. Don't you care about your health? Your lungs and other diseases? Your engine if ran in closed space, will kill you- you know this. You say you care about your family, but best way to care for them is to care for yourself.
BigRigTravels always needs round about 15 minutes for a refill including payment from arriving at the station until he drives off.
It's not 5 to 10 minutes.
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And for the e-trucks, the batteries are big enough to drive the allowed hours until the truckers must do a break for about 45 minutes for example in Europe.
45 minutes... That's a long time for charging...
And it works for real routes all day long...
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Very cool. How are you affiliated?
EV Lars ✔️🖖🌎Big Dan is the genius behind the amazing competition crushing Tesla semi 🚛 moving forward to clean, green, efficient future!
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DEAR LARS-: THIS IS SOMETHING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE INDUSTRY AND IT HAS TO DO WITH PERHAPS UNLIMITED RANGE AND THAT WOULD BE 2 POSSIBLE ADDITIONS TO THESE VEHICLES AND FIRST TO START WITH AND THAT WOULD BE A BICYCLE TYPE GENERATOR ON EACH SEMI WHEEL AND SECONDLY SOLAR ROOF PANELS ON ALL OF THE SURFACES OF THE SEMI- TRAILERS, COULD THIS BE PERHAPS UNLIMITED RANGE ON THESE VEHICLES AND PERHAPS NEVER HAVE TO PLUG IN AGAIN TO FILL THEIR VEHICLES WITH ENERGY EVER AGAIN- ?!?!?!?
Physics is hard…😂😂
They could just use a water engine and neve run out of power again! Just pour water in and energy comes out!
Or the famous Gravity engine from Nikola Motors
We used to get really good smoke, slightly envious of that buzz ……
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Your intro was interesting the first 30 times, now its a tedious waste of my time
50,000 semis sold per year will generate about $10,000,000,000 in revenue for Tesla at pretty decent margins….Elon is building perhaps the greatest group of businesses in history so I’m glad to be a big stock holder!
The Tesla Semi is a total fail!
Tesla always killed it because of the battery. Wonder what will happen with fsd + bi-directional on semi.
How long this truck will burn before it is done?
What happened to the Tesla Semi that caught fire and closed the motorway for a day?
When you use the term ‘hater’, I assume that you hate everyone who disagrees with you.
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In the US there's no charging infrastructure yet. Until then it's hobbled
It's partially in place. There's been a large rapid charger just north of Sacramento which serves the Fremont/Reno route for years. Pepsi has rapid chargers for their Teslas. And Tesla is going to install truck chargers where their customers want them.
I do expect to see Tesla set up one coast to coast highway route like they did for the Model S fairly early. 3,000 miles. One station every 200 miles would mean only 15 stations. And those stations could serve runs on each side of the highway.
Semi is not coming before next 5 years. Reason. No charging infrastructure to support it. Handful of 1 mw chargers
Just have chargers at your depots and they can easily drive to customers and be recharged while filling up for next round
It will change much faster.
Interestingly you don’t need massive infrastructure for the semi as it’s really just point to point and over have longer distances, maybe just one in the middle. It’s like 5% of the charging needed for the vehicles. A lot easier to implement and when working with big trucking companies they’ll be keen to fit the charges at their depot, you’ll be quite surprised how quickly this will uptake
@@tbatba7598 ❤️
Those can be placed in one month.
Holy shit, when is the nonsense and grift going to end with these painful Tesla fanbois? EV sales have plateaued (which was obvious to anyone with half a brain) and "Tesla fatigue" is *very* real. There will be *NO* "extreme scaling" when there is _no_ market to buy your product. Buyers are bored with Tesla and actual competition is _just_ starting in the EV sector. In 5-10 years, Tesla will be a 3rd-rate manufacturer, if they exist at all...
9.8 million EVs have been sold globally so far this year, growing by 20% Year To Date (YTD) with 1.5 million sold in August 2024.
China sold over one million EVs in August 2024, breaking the previous record set in December 2023 by 70,000 vehicles. Now half the market is NEV vehicles.
UK EV sales have increased to 25% of vehicle sales.
Top 3 markets - China, the US and Europe - In H1, EVs had a 30% share in these markets and were growing by 26%.
H1 2024, U.S. electric vehicle sales up 7.3% higher than H1 2023.
ICE continues to decline in World sales from peak in 2017 by a third...
@@waynerussell6401 _"China, the US and Europe - In H1, EVs had a 30% share in these markets"_ Bullshit; US Q4 2024 EV sales were 8.0%. Regardless, EV sales are absolutely plateauing in general, it's simple common sense. Specific markets will skew the numbers in places, but the saturation trend is obvious. PHEVs are clearly the way forward for the next 10 years (at the very least).