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Old 11-17-2017, 02:29 PM   #1
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Tesla Semi Trucks

500 mile range at 80,000 gross weight-4 electric motors.

0-60mph in 1.8 secs.
0-100 in 4.2 secs.
top speed ~250 mph....620 mile range on single charge.
3 el. motors in this baby. 200k for base model, 250k for signature model.
Please don't shoot the messenger.
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Old 11-17-2017, 04:09 PM   #2
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that's great and will cut down on the smog in cities. Where ever the heavy metals are mined and electricity generated to charge the vehicles can be thousands of miles away from major populations.

If they get semi trucks down, they will be able to advance to locomotive trains (to pull the coal cars and oil cars to the coast so that it can be boated to Asia)

and then the next step will be sea traffic - oil tankers from Alaska, South America and Middle East will be able to travel the world with their battery powered motors and they can have solar panels that can be opened up or close depending on sun and storm conditions - similar to sails used be ships in the past century's.


Elan Musk should get hundreds of millions of dollars more from the country so he continue to innovate.
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Old 11-18-2017, 04:47 AM   #3
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ex-GM executive voices his opinion...at link.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...cid=spartandhp
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ex-GM executive voices his opinion...at link.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...cid=spartandhp
I'm certainly no fan of Elon Musk lying to investors, but Bop Lutz was at GM when they filed bankruptcy and accepted BILLIONS of dollars from the US government. When the US govt. finally sold the GM shares that they held, we, the taxpayers lost another $11.2 Billion. Bob Lutz retired the next year and is hardly a shining example of how to run an auto company.

He could be correct about Tesla not surviving past 2019, we'll have to wait and see. Having invested in both Ford and Tesla in the past, I now only own VW from the auto sector.
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I think GM and Tesla are both doomed.
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Old 11-18-2017, 09:30 AM   #6
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80,000 gross what's it going to take to actually run it at the weights they normally run at
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Old 11-18-2017, 10:07 AM   #7
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God I can't wait to get into a fender bender with one of these...anyone that can afford this truck and the insurance to cover it can enjoy paying for my vacation home and early retirement...doubt you'll see any on the road though.
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