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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?
by greatgib 4y ago
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?
- oxplot 4y agoWatch the delivery event. They address that.
- oxplot 4y agoTL;DR they sell solar+battery backed Megachargers to go with the trucks.
- anonporridge 4y agoYou 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?
- u8080 4y agoWhy do we have traffic jams at busy hours?
- jnsaff2 4y agoSo 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.
- hoseja 4y agoI assume you don't mind pulling three times the nuclear powerplant's worth of dinosaur juice from earth?