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12-05-2019, 04:25 PM #21
Freighter has electric box trucks on the road right now, and they’re pretty beefy.
I bet they could easily tow my rig a couple hundred miles.
Maybe I’ll get one instead of waiting for a Tesla.
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12-05-2019, 04:46 PM #22
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So I guess the answer is that RV’ers will need to 2 trucks; one electric for trips shorter than 200 miles and another to go more than that. Or just have the electric and plan on taking a week to go 1000 miles; 200 a day. Maybe the greenies will subsidize us RV’ers to entice out of our bad old fossil burners into the electrics(never mind the power generation plants use fossil fuel to produce that “clean” electricity).
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12-05-2019, 06:21 PM #23
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No, I'm not buying one, but I suspect some people will. How many trucks do you see roll by without a hitch on them? How many F450s that aren't even setup to GN or 5er tow? A lot of people drive trucks and almost never use the capacity of the truck, they just want "a truck". It's their choice, of course, I think it's a little silly, but, more power to them. And that crowd, which IMHO, is a big market, will happily buy an electric "truck". They're not towing anything anyway, and the 1X a year they go to Lowes to buy a 2x4, the "cybertruck" will be just fine.
People who actually use the "truck", well, I think it's already been said here. It's not even close to appropriate for what a lot of us use our trucks for. Towing heavy? Not if you're going far! Tomorrow morning I'm taking a tractor in for service, it's loaded in my trailer right now. 45 miles each way, about 10K behind the truck, mountain roads and relatively high speed (2 lane country road). Think I'd make it? Not entirely sure I would, but I know I'd be sweating right now thinking about it, that's for sure. And towing a 5er? LOL, yeah, right, let me know how that goes.
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12-05-2019, 06:23 PM #24
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Our favorite weekend campground is 130mi one way and there are no chargers between home and there and no power at the campground. The closest is maybe 50 miles. So if I get the 250-mile version, that gives 125mi range towing. A supercharger only charges to 80% so that's an even 100mi after the first charge. This is assuming you have superchargers exactly where you need them. I could barely make the close 50-mile campground and get home.
To be fair a lot of the people who say the "cybertruck won't ever work as a truck and I'll keep my F150 'til I die" seem to me like the kind who probably said they'd keep their horse because the Model T wouldn't do everything the horse would exactly the same way.Last edited by DarthMuffin; 12-05-2019 at 06:27 PM.
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12-06-2019, 06:11 PM #25
Look, the Tesla 5th wheel...not sure it's real though.
https://insideevs.com/news/386402/te...l-trailer/amp/
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12-07-2019, 01:46 AM #26
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Someone forgot a lot of details in their modeling.
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