The Full Electric Tesla Semi Truck: A Beast by Tesla
Geschreven op 15-9-2017 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Agenda, Vervoer en OV
Update 22 juli 2021: Bijna vier jaar na de aankondiging start Tesla met de productie van de Semi elektrische truck. De aandrijflijn voor de productie is klaar voor gebruik en binnenkort zou de productie dan ook worden gestart.
7 October 2017: Tesla pushes electric truck unveiling to November 16. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the automaker is pushing its planned unveiling of its electric truck, Tesla Semi, from October 26 to November 16.
15 September 2017: Tesla Semi is a ‘beast’, says Elon Musk – unveiling of electric truck pushed to October 26th 2017. Tesla originally planned to unveil its upcoming new all-electric truck, Tesla Semi, at the end of September at the company’s Design Center in Hawthorne, CA.
Now CEO Elon Musk says that it has been pushed to Thursday October 26th. As usual, he also hypes up the new vehicle, which he called “a beast” this time.
The expectations are already high. Morgan Stanley recently called the unveiling of Tesla Semi ‘the biggest catalyst in trucking in decades’ and they expect that the electric truck could be 70% cheaper to operate than a diesel-powered truck.
Musk previously described Tesla Semi as having the “highest weight capability and with long-range”: “It is a heavy duty, long range, semi-truck. So it has the highest weight capability and with long range. So essentially it’s meant to alleviate the heavy duty trucking loads. And this is something which people do not, today, think is possible. They think the truck doesn’t have enough power or it doesn’t have enough range. And then with those with the Tesla Semi Truck we want to show that no, an electric truck actually can out-torque any diesel semi and if you had a tug-of-war competition, the Tesla semi what will tug the diesel semi uphill.”
See also: Cummins AEOS Electric Concept Truck Unveiled by Cummins – The Nikola One and The Nikola Two Electric Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trucks by Nikola Motor Company – The Einride T-Pod: An Electric, Self-Driving Truck Without Windows by Einride – De Truck van de Toekomst – The Zero Emission Electric Bus of the Future – The Future of Trucking – Renault Falcon Truck: Een Laboratorium op Wielen by Renault – Drie Distributietrucks met Waterstof Brandstofcel voor Asko in Noorwegen by Scania – OEX-B Zero Emission Overland Truck by Hamid Bekhradi – De Zero Emission Smith Newton Taurus 265-12.5E by Custers – The First Full Electric Heavy Duty Terminal Tracker, de Nautilus E30 – Electric Hyzon Hydrogen Trucks, Buses, Vans And Minibuses by Hyzon Motors Singapore
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14 oktober 2017 om 10:38 | Permalink
Tesla Model 3 Bottlenecks and Puerto Rico Aid Delay Semi-Truck Unveil by Teslanomics
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14 november 2017 om 12:08 | Permalink
Elon Musk: Tesla Semi Truck Event Will “Blow Your Mind”
With less than a week to go until the Tesla Semi Truck event, Elon Musk dropped a bombshell tweet stating that the truck will “blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension.”
That’s clearly exaggeration, but with the Model 3 production ramp over the first few months so drastically low, the Tesla Semi Truck event is an opportunity for Tesla to show off what it has been working on in parallel to its move into the passenger vehicle space.
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18 november 2017 om 10:29 | Permalink
Supermarktketen Walmart heeft bekendgemaakt 15 Tesla Semi’s te hebben besteld.
Vijf Semi’s gaan in de Verenigde Staten rijden en de resterende 10 zijn bestemd voor werkzaamheden in Canada. Walmart heeft de order geplaatst om duurzame doelstellingen binnen de organisatie te realiseren.
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20 november 2017 om 13:12 | Permalink
Tesla Semi Truck With Tesla Armor Glass
Tesla Semi Truck windshield is made of impact resistant glass, Here is Elon Musk explaining the technology.
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28 november 2017 om 10:08 | Permalink
BREYTNER uit Rotterdam haalt eerste Tesla Semi elektrische vrachtwagen naar Nederland
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15 december 2017 om 12:23 | Permalink
Tesla Semi & Tesla Roadster Unveil
Tesla Semi is the safest, most comfortable truck ever. Four independent motors provide maximum power and acceleration and require the lowest energy cost per mile.
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19 december 2017 om 20:21 | Permalink
Thor Wants to Throw Down an Electric Hammer with the ET-One on Tesla by Bloomberg
Thor wants to beat Tesla to the market with electric semi-trucks. Thor’s custom models are due in 2019 and meant for short hauls.
ET-One was built to haul 80,000 pounds with instant torque at zero RPM. It’s a powerful tool designed to get the job done, stay on the road, and save operators money. The Thor Powertrain is the heart of every vehicle built. It is what gives the vehicle its unique driving characteristics and sets it apart from a conventional semi-truck. Gone is everything you knew about electric vehicles. Electric is powerful, electric is sexy, and electric is here to stay.
The ET-One was designed with the fleet-operator and truck driver in mind. Design choices were influenced by managers and drivers of fleets ranging 10 to 10,000 vehicles in size. Thor has done everything to understand the concerns of its customer and design a vehicle that integrates seamlessly with an existing fleet.
Logistiek dienstverlener UPS gaat later dit jaar een elektrische distributietruck van de Amerikaanse start-up Thor testen in en rond Los Angeles.
UPS werkt samen met een hele reeks bedrijven om alternatieve aandrijflijnen uit te proberen in een poging schadelijke emissies tot een minimum te beperken. Elektrische voertuigen hebben daarbij de voorkeur van UPS.
De elektrische bezorgtruck van Thor heeft een range van circa 150 km en heeft een batterijpakket dat door Thor zelf is ontwikkeld. UPS gaat de Thor Class 6 truck zes maanden lang testen. Voor Thor zelf betekent dit ook dat er een soort rijdend laboratorium ontstaat waarop het haar ontwikkeling verder kan enten. Vanuit dezelfde benadering werkt UPS ook samen met Arrival, Daimler, Tesla, Workhorse en andere fabrikanten.
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20 december 2017 om 12:09 | Permalink
UPS Plaatst Order Voor 125 Elektrische Tesla Semi Vrachtwagens
UPS heeft een order voor 125 elektrische vrachtwagens bij Tesla geplaatst. Dat is de grootste bestelling voor de Tesla Semi tot nu toe. Eerder deze maand bestelde PepsiCo (Pepsi en Lay’s) 100 Tesla Semi vrachtwagens.
UPS wil het aantal voertuigen met volledig of deels-elektrische aandrijflijn, uitbreiden. Daarvan rijden er bij het koeriersbedrijf nu ongeveer 8.500 rond.
See also: UPS Expands Its Zero-Emissions Rolling Laboratory Fleet With 50 Workhorse Electric Trucks –Daimler Delivers First Electric FUSO eCanter Trucks to UPS
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23 december 2017 om 10:51 | Permalink
Asko, Norway reserves 10 Tesla Semi Electric Trucks
The first company to jump on board is Asko, a food distribution service in Norway. They confirmed an order of 10 Tesla Semi electric trucks.
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6 februari 2018 om 16:31 | Permalink
Tesla Semi 2018
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9 februari 2018 om 12:10 | Permalink
Elon Musk: We are going to manufacture 100,000 electric Tesla Semi trucks per year
CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla expects to manufacture as many as 100,000 electric trucks per year. The Tesla Semi is planned to enter production as soon as next year, but when asked about the planned production capacity, Musk didn’t want to elaborate on the production ramp up and instead shared his overall target after 4 years of production.
“It’s easier to predict, far easier to predict the endpoint or the steady state of the S-curve than anywhere on that exponential or log curve. So if you take four years, I think 100,000 units a year is a reasonable expectation. Maybe more, but that’s the right – roughly the right number, I think.”
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9 maart 2018 om 11:59 | Permalink
Tesla Semi does its first production cargo run with batteries on board
Tesla itself is the customer, as the trucks were equipped with trailers loaded up with battery packs fresh from the Gigafactory assembly line, heading to the Tesla Fremont car factory in California.
Elon Musk shared an image of the trucks at work, with both the matte black version and the silver one with the aero hood, which presumably are the same they showed off at the official unveil (they’re the same color, at least).
The Tesla Semi trucks had full-size trailers attached, which is not what they’ve been equipped with during previous sightings.
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7 april 2018 om 14:18 | Permalink
Tesla Reveals Its First Electric Semi Truck
This captioned movie shows the Tesla’s first electric truck, the Tesla Semi, which Elon Musk’s company claims can travel up to 500 miles on a single charge and performs better than current diesel versions when climbing hills.
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8 april 2018 om 12:49 | Permalink
Tesla gets large order of 50 electric Tesla Semi trucks from a truck renting and leasing company
TCI Transportation in Phoenix, Arizona ordered 50 Tesla Semi electric trucks – one of the biggest orders to date. TCI Transportation’s order is worth between $7.5 million and $9 million.
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27 juli 2018 om 14:51 | Permalink
Waberer’s testing Tesla Semi
Waberer’s has proposed to test the Tesla Semi in Europe before a European launch. Video courtesy of Waberer’s.
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29 juli 2018 om 16:49 | Permalink
GroenLeven Vervoert Zonnepanelen In De Toekomst Met De Elektrische Tesla Semi
GroenLeven wil als één van de eerste bedrijven in Nederland gaan rijden met de Tesla Semi, om zo haar zonne-energiecentrales te voorzien van zonnepanelen en materialen. Tesla en GroenLeven zijn bedrijven die goed bij elkaar passen omdat zij streven naar schone energie en een fossielvrije wereld.
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8 september 2018 om 15:33 | Permalink
Supermarktketen Walmart besteld nog eens 30 Tesla Semi’s
Walmart heeft besloten om meer Tesla Semi’s aan te schaffen. Na de onthulling van de vrachtwagen van Tesla werd ingeschreven voor 15 stuks. Nu is besloten om nog eens 30 extra Semi’s te gaan rijden.
Die zijn vooral bedoeld voor het transport in Canada, daar wil Walmart het transport in hoge mate elektrificeren. Het bedrijf wil in 2022 een grootschalig distributiecentrum in Surrey gebruik nemen, met een volledig elektrische vloot. In hetzelfde jaar gaat Walmart ervan uit dat 20 % van de bedrijfsvloot volledig elektrisch is.
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29 november 2018 om 12:45 | Permalink
Albertsons Pre-Orders 10 Tesla Semi Trucks
If you’re not familiar with the name Albertsons, that’s because it operates under several names, including Safeway, Shaw’s, Vons, and Pavilion. It also owns the Jewel-Osco chain of drugstores. In all, Albertsons operates 20 brands across 35 states and operates a truck fleet of more than 1,400 units, according to FreightWaves.
In a press release, Tom Nartker, vice president of transportation for Albertsons, says, “Advancing supply chain efficiency and sustainability is an important goal for our company. We’re excited to pilot this expansion of our transportation program with trucks that help us limit our overall carbon footprint.”
The company plans to use the Tesla trucks as part of its operations in southern California. It has ordered the upgraded version of the Tesla Semi, which is expected to have a range of 500 miles towing a fully loaded semi-trailer. The price of those units is around $180,000 a piece.
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7 februari 2019 om 16:24 | Permalink
Rijden met de nieuwste Freightliner by TTMtv
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9 september 2020 om 16:58 | Permalink
The Volta Zero Electric Truck 2022 by Volta Trucks
More than probably any other company in this sector, Volta Trucks has adopted the spirit and some of the design of the Tesla Semi. It has the driver seated in the middle of the cabin in its newly revealed Volta Zero. It has two fairly large vertical touchscreens flanking the steering wheel, and one more in a horizontal position behind the steering wheel. The steering wheel itself is even a bit reminiscent of a Tesla steering wheel.
Volta Trucks says that it’s “the world’s first purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle,” but the first pilot trucks are due for sometime in the first half of 2021, and real production and deliveries are scheduled to start in 2022.
“The Volta Zero will start undertaking operator trials with some of Europe’s largest parcel delivery and logistics companies in H1-2021. Orders have already been taken from companies wanting to secure the first customer-specification vehicles, which are due to be delivered when production starts in 2022.”
The Volta Zero is not meant for long-haul or even medium-haul duty, though. It is tailored for package deliveries within the city. As such, it will have a pure-electric range of 150–200 kilometers (95–125 miles). That comes from a 160–200 kWh lithium-iron-phosphate battery pack.
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6 november 2020 om 12:20 | Permalink
Tesla Receives Massive Order of Tesla Semi Electric Trucks
At 150 trucks with the option to buy 350 more, this could be Tesla’s biggest order of Tesla Semis yet. It would be worth between $22 million and $100 million depending on the final number of trucks and the configurations.