TESLA Electric Truck?

[aczlan]

Can You Charge A Tesla By Towing It? (With Ford Raptor) - YouTube

Interesting testing towing Tesla model 3 with a F150 Raptor to charge the batteries. They freely admit it's not practical but interesting theory. A truck will have noticably less mileage than a model 3 but the fundamentals of battery & motor efficiency will hold.

It would be interesting to setup one with "Toad mode" to pull behind a RV where it listened to a brake controller in the RV and did regenerative braking when the RV brake controller said to apply the brakes.
Charge your toad for free that way and take some wear and tear off of your RV's brakes.

Aaron Z

 

[JasperFrank]

Show me one charging station, any where, that is set up to charge a vehicle with a trailer. I've been taking mental notes of charging stations when ever I see them, since, I've been considering an EV and have a PV home based system. I have never seem one set up for anything other than the length a standard car. So, for standard sized cars, we are sort of at that tipping point where you can find a charging station. But towing something; then that changes the equation dramatically, since you are going to have to decouple the trailer in order to "fit" the way charging stations are set up. So the new infrastructure of charging stations actually works against the entire concept of an electrically powered towing vehicle. My two cents.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

We Drive a Tesla Model 3 vs Nissan Leaf Up a MOUNTAIN to See Which is More Efficient! Thrifty 3 Ep.4 - YouTube

We Drive a Tesla Model 3 vs Nissan Leaf Up a MOUNTAIN to See Which is More Efficient! Thrifty 3 Ep.4

As a long term Nissan guy I found this interesting in this comparison of the Model 3 and Nissan Leaf Plus. Long term I expect the Tesla will last longer because its extra 90-100 miles of range means less charging cycles if both are charged and depleted to the same % of state of charge. Two motors vs one I guess means less load for the Tesla motors. I do not know the buy in price of each but expect full coverage insurance is less for the Leaf Plus.

Full coverage for our 2016 Leaf SL with $500 deductible is running about $40 per month but we have the house , buildings, tractors, trucks and cars on one mini farm package. There are 4 trucks, 5 cars and 5 tractors plus the home.

 

[ruffdog]

If I were wanting a EV truck, I would be looking for a S10/Ranger/Colorado/Tacoma sized truck. I would not want nor need a Hummer H1 sized dustbuster/delorian off spring.

 

[Jim Nelson]

A week or so ago I saw an ad that said Hyundai was coming out with an EV pickup and the pic looked pretty good compared to the Tesla but I haven't seen anything more on it. I'm sure there will be more players soon.

 

[two_bit_score]

If I were wanting a EV truck, I would be looking for a S10/Ranger/Colorado/Tacoma sized truck. I would not want nor need a Hummer H1 sized dustbuster/delorian off spring.

Yes, but then you would probably be down in that ~$30k price range and Tesla cant make money at that price. They are trying to appeal to the buyers who don’t need a truck to buy these “trucks”.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Musk suggests Tesla has 25, orders for Cybertruck

The number is approaching the 325,000 saw for the Model 3 in the first week it was announced.

 

[jjp8182]

I'd be interested in the comparison of order rate vs. cancellation rate, and the percentage of vehicles that are delivered to the original ordering customer.

..especially after stumbling across this article written last summer: The Tesla magic is gone | The Outline
Which seemed to indicate that at that time the cancellation rate for Model 3's was exceeding the order rate.

I'm sure the vehicles made will be sold, but given the low reservation price I wonder how many of those orders were made to reserve a spot in line while deciding if the truck is something they actually want to buy.

Given some of the other articles that showed up with the one above.... I'm almost tempted to wait until I've seen/driven an EV that's part of a rental fleet as that would be a real test of reliability. Though getting it recharged in a timely manner before dropping it off on the way to catch a flight could be interesting...

Being an engineer that does a fair amount of design review/auditing, I'm well aware of the poor decisions design engineers can/do make - especially when being prodded to go faster by a company leadership that is cost/profit or publicity focused and is less (if at all) concerned about quality, maintainability, or integrity of the product.

 

[California]

Based on a post on another site - If H. C. Escher had been asked to design a pickup ....

 

[Grumpycat]

Show me one charging station, any where, that is set up to charge a vehicle with a trailer. I've been taking mental notes of charging stations when ever I see them, since, I've been considering an EV and have a PV home based system. I have never seem one set up for anything other than the length a standard car. So, for standard sized cars, we are sort of at that tipping point where you can find a charging station. But towing something; then that changes the equation dramatically, since you are going to have to decouple the trailer in order to "fit" the way charging stations are set up. So the new infrastructure of charging stations actually works against the entire concept of an electrically powered towing vehicle. My two cents.

Tesla has been offering factory trailer hitches since the Model X. And since that time has been building Supercharger sites with at least one "drive forward" charging bay where the trailer could be left sticking out (into parking lot traffic) or one could pull beside. 7 of 8 charging bays are "back into".