Tesla Semi Will Charge When Loading and Unloading to Save Time Compared to Diesel

PepsiCo’s best-performing Tesla Semi traveled an average of 574 miles per day over the course of 18 days at the RunonLess Real World data tracking event. The next best non-Tesla vehicle was WattEV’s Nikola Tre BEV, which traveled an average of 255 miles per day. OK Produce’s Freightliner eCascadia averaged 181 miles per day, and …

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Tesla Semi Crushing Freightliner eCascadia and BYD Semi in Real World Range Tests

The Run on Less Event is testing electric semi trucks with real world deliveries to test their range and payload performance. Tesla is getting up to double the range of many of the competing electric trucks. Freightliner is owned by Daimler and they are the largest semi truck company in the world. There are also …

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Ford Predictions of Niche Cybertruck Will Echo Predictions of iPhone Failure

During an interview with CNBC/Mad Money/Jim Cramer, Ford CEO Jim Farley dismissed the Tesla Cybertruck as a high-end product targeted at Silicon Valley rather than a truck for real working people. In the United States, Ford F-Series deliveries totaled 170,377 units in Q1 2023, an increase of about 21 percent compared to 140,701 units sold …

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Ammonia Used to Power a Semi Truck

Amogy Inc., a pioneer of emission-free, energy-dense ammonia power solutions, announced today the successful testing of the first-ever ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi truck. Amogy has received $150 million in funding. The system has 5x higher system-level energy densities compared to lithium batteries. The volumetric energy density of liquid ammonia is almost 3x greater than that of …

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Three Weeks of Data Measurements and Testing on Pepsi Tesla Semis at September 2023 Event

From Sept 11, 2023 to Oct 2, 2023, eight fleet depots will take part in the North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s (NACFE) and RMI’s Run on Less – Electric DEPOT (RoL-E DEPOT), which is focusing on the scaling of electric trucks across a variety of market segments. This will showcase truck fleets that are …

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Tesla 2023 – 2030 – Cybertruck, Semi, Next Gen & More

I, Brian Wang, had a great talk with Warren Redlich about Tesla production and deliveries in 2023, the future of Model 3 and Model Y, Cybertruck Semi, the next-generation vehicle platform, megapack and more. I think Tesla will trend to 90% of actual production capacity (production being demonstrated sustained over weeks). In Q1 2023, Tesla …

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A Few Hundred Driverless Trucks

There are some self-driving trucks on the road by widescale deployment still seems to be 3-5 years away. There are publically traded self-driving truck technology such as Aurora Innovation (AUR), Embark Technology (EMBK) and TuSimple (TSP). Privately held self driving truck companies are like Gatik, Plus, Torc Robotics and Kodiak Robotics. Gatik specializes in shorter …

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