Saw some pictures of Tesla tractors....

[quad decade guy]

We'll be getting 30 all electric trucks here by April.

4 months? What about all the infrastructure? It's up and running?

Here, when we got CNG tractors.....they didn't have any fueling stations....

You had to fuel off property.....had to be one of the stupidest things UPS has done....well...recently.

Do you see any movement on the charging stations? Electrical additions? I hear it's beaucoup power intensive.

 

[quad decade guy]

Tesla? Wonder what features they'll have.

I wonder how fragile the instrument screens will be?

I'm still amazed at my tractor having a radio......electric windows and power locks.....amazed. Auto. Thrilled.

 

[542thruNthru]

4 months? What about all the infrastructure? It's up and running?

Here, when we got CNG tractors.....they didn't have any fueling stations....

You had to fuel off property.....had to be one of the stupidest things UPS has done....well...recently.

Do you see any movement on the charging stations? Electrical additions? I hear it's beaucoup power intensive.

The charging stations have been up for a couple years now.

This is a old picture from 2019.

 

[wilberforce15]

The charging stations have been up for a couple years now.

This is a old picture from 2019.
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Good gracious. Not even gonna be close to enough. These tractors needs lightning bolts thrown by Zeus.

 

[542thruNthru]

Good gracious. Not even gonna be close to enough. These tractors needs lightning bolts thrown by Zeus.

Not tractors. They are package cars.

 

[wilberforce15]

Not tractors. They are package cars.

Ah, I got confused. For an overnight charge that would probably kinda sorta work.

 

[rod]

4 months? What about all the infrastructure? It's up and running?

Here, when we got CNG tractors.....they didn't have any fueling stations....

You had to fuel off property.....had to be one of the stupidest things UPS has done....well...recently.

Do you see any movement on the charging stations? Electrical additions? I hear it's beaucoup power intensive.

The big question is what they will look like 4 months after UPS gets them. I would say they will be full of sunflower seeds and chew spit.

 

[542thruNthru]

Tesla? Wonder what features they'll have.

Sorry I should have been more clear. They will be package cars.

 

[quad decade guy]

Good gracious. Not even gonna be close to enough. These tractors needs lightning bolts thrown by Zeus.

In power depressed CA? Capitol of rolling black/brown outs? Hell, they are trying to get rid of power lines in CA......

Have we stumbled on a problem with EV's....? Again, was told the Tesla tractors need the equivalent of the entire buildings power requirements.....just 75 tractors....

And no real solutions in sight?

 

[wilberforce15]

In power depressed CA? Capitol of rolling black/brown outs? Hell, they are trying to get rid of power lines in CA......

Have we stumbled on a problem with EV's....? Again, was told the Tesla tractors need the equivalent of the entire buildings power requirements.....just 75 tractors....

And no real solutions in sight?

Not a problem with EVs.

It's a problem with CA.

 

[quad decade guy]

Not a problem with EVs.

It's a problem with CA.

No Champ.....they are one in the same. See?

 

[wilberforce15]

No Champ.....they are one in the same. See?

No, I don't see. CA isn't even in America as far as I'm concerned.

 

[quad decade guy]

No, I don't see. CA isn't even in America as far as I'm concerned.

Gosh.....As Cali. goes so does America it is said...

Huh?

So, how do we take such a bizarre statement seriously and you also? So odd as to be trollish.

CA. has huge electrical problems. And the US will follow as fossil fuels are banned...as we we don't have alternatives. Electricity will have to be rationed for heat and necessary transportation as well as necessary industry. Cars will have to be the first to go.

Well if the water shortage doesn't kill them first....

 

[Brownslave688]

Idk. The whole idea of platooning trucks seems dangerous and like a big liability to me. Doing it in the middle of the night in arizona is one thing. Add real traffic, construction, emergency vehicles and weather, etc...

They won’t platoon to the final destination. Just to a drop point I’d imagine. Keeping them on major highways and out of cities.

 

[wilberforce15]

They won’t platoon to the final destination. Just to a drop point I’d imagine. Keeping them on major highways and out of cities.

They won't platoon to the final destination (yet)
Just to a drop point (for now)
They'll stay on major highways (to train the AI on babysteps).

 

[trickpony1]

What's the range on these electric tractors?
Will they make a 250 mile line haul and then turn around and come back?

Electrically helping.

 

[quad decade guy]

What's the range on these electric tractors?
Will they make a 250 mile line haul and then turn around and come back?

Electrically helping.

NO!!!!!!

 

[quad decade guy]

They won't platoon to the final destination (yet)
Just to a drop point (for now)
They'll stay on major highways (to train the AI on babysteps).

No.

They'll stay in special lanes or corridors to reduce the slaughter of innocents......

 

[wilberforce15]

No.

They'll stay in special lanes or corridors to reduce the slaughter of innocents......

They are already safer than you.

But the world would rather 30k humans get killed by human drivers than have 100 humans killed in AI accidents.

 

[wilberforce15]

What's the range on these electric tractors?
Will they make a 250 mile line haul and then turn around and come back?

Electrically helping.

The desperation smells bad. You will always find something they can't do. And that slice will get smaller and smaller and smaller until you can't point at anything.