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The Tesla Semi is a battery electric semi-trailer truck built by Tesla, Inc. since 2022. The truck is powered by three motors, and according to Tesla has approximately three times the power of a typical diesel semi truck, a range of 500 miles (800 km), and can operate at an energy use of less than two kilowatt-hours per mile (1.2 kW⋅h/km).
Tesla released a video of Cybertruck pulling a rear-wheel-drive Ford F-150 uphill in a tug of war. [21] News outlets pointed out this was due to the Cybertruck's heavier weight. [22] [23] Tesla's stated goal was to provide a sustainable energy substitute for the roughly 6,500 fossil-fuel-powered pickup-trucks sold per day in the United States. [24]
Docs submitted by Tesla to the EPA reveal the Cybertruck's battery capacity, which we previously estimated at around 128 kWh. Just how far off were we, though?
This [which?] electric truck uses 2 kilowatt-hours per mile which is the equivalent of using only 10 kWh per every 5 miles (8 km). The diesel truck that it replaces [which?] uses the equivalent of 33.7 kWh per 5 miles (8 km). Thus, the diesel truck is using 3.37 times the amount of energy that the electric truck is using.
Semi-tractor trailer trucks, or “18 wheelers” as they are commonly called, have a federally-allowed limit of 80,000 total pounds of gross vehicle weight. Tesla’s Semi will have a Tesla ...
California firefighters had to douse a flaming battery in a Tesla Semi with about 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of water to extinguish flames after a crash, the National Transportation Safety ...
Airbus puts the fuel rate consumption of their A380 at less than 3 L/100 km per passenger (78 passenger-miles per US gallon). [116] Air France Airbus A380-800. The mass of an aircraft can be reduced by using light-weight materials such as titanium, carbon fibre and other composite plastics. Expensive materials may be used, if the reduction of ...
A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a ...