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So basically, if I'm right, you need a nuclear power plant for 500 to 1000 of these trucks if we assume one charge per day. That looks awfull to me, no?



You can't drop a comment like this without sketching out your math and base assumptions.

I would guess you're assuming a 1GW nuclear reactor, and each truck ~1MWh of battery. Wouldn't that be ~1000 trucks charged per hour, not per day? Are you off by 24x?


Why do we have traffic jams at busy hours?


So basically, the battery-powertrain efficiency is about 3-4 times better than with diesel. You need 3-4 nuclear plants worth of energy now.

But lets see about your math as well.

One reactor (of which there may be several in a plant) is lets say 1GW.

The semi will charge at say 1MW. So 1000 of them can charge at the same time. It takes about 1 hour to charge the battery so we are already at 24000 charges per day. Each of them can cover ~800km so about 19 million fleet km or 480 trips around the earth or about 25 round trips to the moon.


Watch the delivery event. They address that.


TL;DR they sell solar+battery backed Megachargers to go with the trucks.


I assume you don't mind pulling three times the nuclear powerplant's worth of dinosaur juice from earth?




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