JeffKeryk

From late 2017:
The truck will start at an expected base price of $150,000 for a 300-mile range battery. Trucks with a 500-mile range battery will be priced from $180,000. The first 1,000 semis will be labeled “Founder’s Series” and start at $200,000.

There is no price update AFAIK, but it will be more I'm sure. But your numbers are whack.

Toys4RJill

A Tesla semi with a sleeper with be $200,000 more than this new Peterbilt. A 900 kWh battery pack. Can’t use 24hrs.

Striker223

In theory. We need more info on these to know, we also need to know how these will be able to do 24 hour cycles with multiple drivers via pack swap or something otherwise they will need 2x as many trucks

AMIRZA786

Dude, Tesla has been building cars since 2008. Tesla has been working on the Semi for years testing it. This is their most anticipated vehicle release, with 1.4 million orders. Secondly, under current laws, truck drivers must take mandatory 30 minute breaks every 4 hours. Would you want to be driving next to a truck that has been going for 24 hours? Certainly not me because I've seen the results when they get overly tired.

Next....

bitkahuna

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enough piling on i think.

AMIRZA786

Got it. Apologies 😁

Toys4RJill

3X as many would be required.

SW17LS

Please post your source, because there has been no mention of pricing that is over $200,000 total. $200,000 more than that Peterbuilt would be $360,000...and you accused me of misleading?!

And you don't use Semi trucks 24 hours. There are strict DOT requirements for how long a driver can drive and how long they have to rest. Semi trucks spend lots of time stopped, they stop overnight etc. Have you ever driven on a roadtrip at night and seen all the semis stopped on offramps and at rest stops?

You're just way off base here.

As was said before, Semi trucks don't operate 24 hours with different drivers. Most long haul truckers have one truck and its their home away from home, in fact many truckers own or lease their own truck. Its not a NYC taxicab. Almost all semitrucks are stopped for 10 hours after every 14 hours, plenty of time to charge, and you know there will be special Tesla truck megachargers and facilities and places to park and charge and rest.

DaveGS4

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Warranted, and you aren't the only one that should be offering one.

The type of rude confrontational attitudes shown in this thread are the reason so many of our EV threads get closed. It's not productive and not the type of community we want to be.