Are you going to wait a year or more to get your products? Or get PAID for your products. Come back to reality. I want to protect the Earth. I like clean air and water, but electric isn't feasible in all applications. If you, or anyone else, wants to drive a hair dryer on wheels, that's wonderful. But fossil fuel is here to stay.
A year? I wouldn't want to ship with your company if that's the speed you're offering. Remember Clipper ships? They did the China - North America runs at an average speed of 16 knots. In a day, 250 miles, up to 400 in optimum conditions. Norway is experimenting with hybrids; CNG power with sail assist. The wind increases speed and shortens crossing times. As I said, not all products are speed sensitive anyway. If you want your shipment of lumber, grain or bulk iron ore to arrive in, say May, you adjust the starting date accordingly.
Perhaps you haven't had the interest to look for one. Over forty years ago Solar One was already flying.
You still haven't answered my question.
Why do you call the purchasers "Greenies"? Perhaps they are more interested in rapid acceleration, or lower monthly operating costs. My accountant isn't particularly 'green' but he opted for an electric car.
The only electric Semis in production are prototypes. Coca-Cola bought the first one and it cost over 1 million dollars. They are far too heavy to haul a full tractor trailer load, which can weigh as much as 48,000LBS. Add that to the fact that there are currently no semi charging stations available. Of course it can accelerate faster, with an empty trailer, or no trailer at all. All of those companies "claiming" to have ordered them, are the same companies that lost millions on the CNG semis. Only to later convert them back to diesel or scrap them altogether. Ask Knight about CNG. They were on the verge of bankruptcy over CNG until they were bought out by Swift.
Tesla's Semi easily out performs the best diesel Semi on cost per mile. As well as acceleration performance. The problem it only has a range up to 500 miles. (And that's with no solar panel assistance.) Once they get that up to 750+? It's over. The electric truck can easily out bid for hauling contracts.
Being prototypes doesn't mean not existing. Everything starts out as a prototype. The first diesels to have turbochargers were prototypes, they ended up being commonplace.
They cost 8 times what a regular semi cost. And that is 500 UNLOADED miles, without traffic or terrain to account for. 500 miles across the flat desert is not the same as 500 miles along the Eastern seaboard.
Actually, I am a little more observant than your average driver. The first thing that I would notice is the lack of engine noise.
8 times more? Where did you get that? You need to stop making stuff up? That has to stop everywhere. Tesla's expected base price at $180k. (Goes up from there.) Thats less than a comparable diesel. There are still some hurdles. I suspect the first production will be hydrogen fuel cell hybrids. But Iron. You are arguing a losing position. Just like the horse and buggie folks when Ford released the Model T.
The first Tesla semi was over $1,000,000!! My fully loaded Kenworth, which is the top of the line semi made, was $180,000. I am not making anything up. I have forgotten more about trucks than you will ever know!!
Even at $1 mil? That means you can get a comparable new diesel at 1/8 for $125k? Good luck. You must have some serious connections?
A base model Freightliner Cascadia when bought in fleet numbers runs around $120,000. The same with an International ProStar. I know this because I am personal friends with an owner of over 4,000 trucks. I bought my first truck, a Freightliner, from him.
Because one has nothing to do with the other? They don't make classic cars anymore. Thus why they are "Classic." When cars took over horse? Was that the end of the horse market? No. I don't understand your fear of the future?
