Why Companies Might Regret Buying Electric Trucks

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If "ifs and buts" were candies and nuts then we would all have a merry Christmas.. ad there's still A LOT of ifs and wishful thinking here. But of course, the Semi Chub revolutionized the trucking industry by hauling half filled bags of Lay's potato chips 🤡 Also, I'm calling BS on this heap being able to charge in 30mins

They should have gone hybrid

You are throwing unfounded doubts about Tesla. Sounds like you own stock in Cummins, Peterbuilt, and Mack.

Where are they going to recharge the trucks?

I wish these charge number claims would contain the other big factor in charging, beside "400 miles in 30 min" and include the wattage and/or KV throughput requirement to attain that factor. Most public multi car (truck) charging stations are similar to Cable Internet topography, they are on one big source circuit that gets divided up each time someone hooks to an additional terminal. I've also heard that some of these larger charging stations, if not restricted, can use up to a small town's electricity total load. We have two large truck stops a couple of miles away, on average there are 50 to 70 (or more) trucks, over-nighting. If they were all on charge, I'd worry about those with pacemakers nearby, the heat load would be something AND will it brown out my house? Most of these so called climate crusaders think electricity comes out of the wall plug, they have zero idea of what it takes to get it there.

As long as only a part of the fleet is electrical, Walmart can test the practicability, short range against longer range e.g.
If the ''Big Ones'' don`t make the first step - who should enable the carmakers, to get better ?

Anyone else thinks this would be a terrible idea?

As with everything musk related, it´s vapourware.

10 years from now he will still claim production to start "next year".

These companies are laughing in our faces. As if you don't need energy to make a truck, and to make an electric truck you need far more energy and rare materials than gasoline trucks.

Electric vehicles belong in the scrapyard.

As a Walmart shareholder, I approve. Walmart cares more about saving the company money than trying to look green. Why wouldn't it? Tesla passenger cars, largely live up to the claims of range and lower maintenance. Save money, live better. More than a catchy slogan.

Walmart go for it. Please be cautious and do not go crazy on entire fleet of all electric trucks. Could be a mistake for your bottom line literally.

They have to push it forward! I mean it!

Your video title is very misleading. "REGRET Ordering 130 Tesla Semi-Trucks". 130 out of 9,000 trucks. That is 1.4%. They could be the most marvelous or worst trucks in the world. And it would mean absolutely nothing to Walmart. I suspect the entire trucking costs of Walmart are nothing to the expenses or revenues of Walmart. Fix your title.

Walmart should've gone with clean diesel trucks from 2019 onwards.

WARNING! All range calculation requires that the Tesla is being operated at an environmental temperature of 20℃. Operation in temperatures below 5℃ will diminish the range significally.

Truck Topia - FACTS are Tesla semi hauled Full Load 82k Gross 535+ miles w/ 20 Reserve. in just 8H.
in a Test by RUN ON LESS , Tesla semi traveled 1200+ miles in 24H , w/ 3 slip seat Drivers , 2 charging sessions.

Truck Topia - Walmart is facing another Challenge.
in California & other States , Walmart has to REPLACE aging Diesel Semi w/ Engines made before 2010 .
they will need to REPLACE with Engines built AFTER 2010 , or purchase ALL NEW BEV semi (which are Eligible w/ 30% FED Incentive).
CA will NOT allow or REGISTER any semi made after 2010.
CHP will Fine & Impound vehicles after 2010.
this took Effect LAST YEAR 2023 in January.

Truck Topia - TESLA semi does NOT use any kind of Autopilot currently.
has Automatic SAFETY & Traffic cruise Control .

The infrastructure is simply NOT here and never will be. This is all a bad joke (scam) and within this decade it will bear out to be such.

I recon there's a massive tax claim back from this thats probably why at the moment if you buy an ev in the uk you will get money back for buying one

Wrong news. Tesla is struggling to rectify EV Truck issues

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This would be a huge win for them if they installed chargers at the docks at the store. Charge while truck has to be stopped anyways and then they could run to stores much farther from the warehouses.

It looks like Tesla is selling these Class 8’s at a loss (like they did with passenger vehicles for quite some time) which would give WalMart a great reason to try them out. Interested to see which regions and what routes WalMart will run them on.

For local LTL, Electric Trucks are great. However, the power required to charge a fleet of these trucks will be more than what most cities can provide.