The 2024 Tesla Semi Update Is Here!

The 2024 Tesla Semi Update Is Here!

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Welcome to the Tesla Space, where we share the latest news, rumors, and insights into all things Tesla, Space X, Elon Musk, and the future! We'll be showing you all of the new details around the Tesla Model 3 2023, Tesla Model Y 2023, along with the Tesla Cybertruck when it finally arrives, it's already ordered!

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[charleswillcock]

Whenever I hear the word hydrogen and vehicles I switch off. Hydrogen vehicles will never take off.

[zlozlozlo]

Dude. Get this through your head.
Fuel cells are not competitive with batteries. They never will be. The cost per unit of energy delivered to the wheel is simply too high. 2 to 3 times higher than for batteries in fact. It's a pipe dream that the passenger car market has finally woken up from.
(Which is why they came out with synthetic fuels again, they needed something else to pull over our eyes)
Just as fuel cells have failed in passenger cars, they are going to fail in freight. Large truck manufacturers are already starting to wake up, and switching from fuel cell plans to battery electric reality.
Again, fuel cells are 2 to 3 times more expensive per unit of mass transported over unit of distance, compared to BEVs.
Also, freight fleet operators don't have range anxiety. They have spreadsheets.

[Gargamel-n-Rudmilla]

I think u need to listen to the q4 call again. Drew Baglino explicitly said they have enough 4680's for all their vehicles and that they are ramping.
Also as you said there will not be much more orders for semi until Tesla has built out its 750kwh mega charging network.
This is not specif to Tesla, the other OEMs will have to do the same and build out their mega charging network, unless they are going to make the same mistake before and sit around for public charging, which ia simply not going to happen.

[royh]

Two errors. The price quoted of $180k for the Semi is not industry estimate, it is 2017 announced price. Most likely much higher now. $250k has been rumored.

4680 cell manufacturing problems seem to be behind them now. Ramping up production at Giga Texas faster than the ramp of Cybertruck. They are now targeting 5GWh/yr/line with 8 lines running later this year. I believe excess 4680 cell production will go to the Semi.

[royh]

Only piece of new information I learned from this video is that no more Semi trucks have been delivered beyond the initial 36 trucks to PepsiCo.

[sntstafford]

Local/inter-local makes the most sense. No sleeper, single axle with 35’ trailer, 100 to 200 mile routes, no idling, return to base to recharge every night. Maybe even some Class 6 box.

As for OTR, I’ve seen the video; not bad, but that must have been one slow moving rig with all the cars/Class 8 passing it. A real test would be I-70 westbound out of Denver to Richfield, UT. 470 miles with four high passes (Eisenhower, Vail, Spotted Wolf and Salina Canyon). Run that on a single charge and color me impressed.

[BlackheartCharlie]

8:10 "I can figure out the dry coating. And don't call me Shirley."

[EricRatzlaff_]

Love your content, keep up the good work guys!

[hanswallner]

E-Trucks will be a very big thing, at the high mileages of trucks this will be a gamechanger as nothing ever before, many people still don't have no idea how big this market will be.

[RobertDooley-yf]

Always nicely done, thank you good sir!

[paulhyland]

Can it still only carry bags of chips?

[John-Edward]

The future for Entry Level Teslas seems to be LFP batteries right now. That what is in the new Model 3 and why it doesn’t get the $7, 500 credit because those are currently Made in China. Tesla has bought equipment from CATL to set up in Nevada to produce LFP batteries, but they claim this is for the MEGA Pack factory in Lathrop, CA so hard to say. That definitely will affect the Made in USA status of the current Model 3.

[thevillain]

Hydro won't completely take over, of course demand will split between two different products slowly developing infrastructure so the solution to net zero is to diversify like that between technologies because it will level out demand and ease things up.

[External]

Hydrogen is shutting down. It takes 3x the electricity to make hydrogen than put it in an EV.

Once the mega chargers are more common, Tesla semis will be very popular. Imagine if every Walmart had a Tesla Semi charger... A few freeway adjacent chargers will make this happen.

Good they debugged before mass production. The miles per day say it all. $200k in fuel savings...

[bearlemley]

0:10
“Shrouded in mystery”
This seems to the excuse to make a video but Tesla’s Semi truck and Pepsi’s truck are well known along with performance recordings.

[ourv]

A battery factory? For Panasonic? What, Tesla is uncomfortable working in the same building as Panasonic? IS this evidence of this partnership strain?

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[metriczeppelin]

Hydrogen engine production is a trip down a dead end road. For people who won't buy an EV automobile because of "range anxiety, " show me all the hydrogen fueling stations in the US. They're all but shut down in Europe because of such little demand. GM has become famous for going down the wrong road when it comes to new tech. Remember Lordstown Motors? Remember Nickola semi's? GM can't get their EV automotive shit together and now they're going to wander off with Honda into a Hydrogen sunset? Better keep an eye on their stock.

[adrianpbaxter]

Didn't somebody smart, like some engineer in the hall of engineer fame or somthin' say "hydrogen is a fool's errand"?

[Kale-Sims]

Charge time? Or is there going to be battery quick change stations? Either going to be slow or going to feel like they need a service appointment every day.

[truhartwood]

Hydrogen is basically dead. Way way way too expensive. Won't be a competitor to BEVs for vehicles. They're actually not that much faster to fill, nor do they have significantly more range any more. And again, way more expensive, which is an imports to bottom line for companies.