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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

11.17.17 – Analyzing the Tesla Semi & the Tesla Roadster

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

– Tesla unveils the Tesla Semi and the next-generation Tesla Roadster
– Analyzing these products and what they might mean for Tesla’s competitive position and valuation

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Tesla daily on official Tesla podcast my name is Rob mower

0:10.8

today is Friday, November 17,

0:13.2

henceforth known as the day the internal combustion engine

0:17.2

died. Okay, so where do we even begin? That was insane.

0:23.9

It was incredible.

0:25.6

There are truly no words.

0:26.8

I was sitting there trying to take notes,

0:29.6

and my note page ended up just,

0:31.5

I grabbed a sharpie from my drawer the thickest

0:34.8

sharpie that I had and I just wrote wow on my piece of paper and I underlined it.

0:39.1

The Tesla semi truly a Class 8 heavy truck with a 0 to 60 time of 5 seconds, a range of 500 miles at highway

0:48.6

speed at full payload capacity mega charging 400 miles in 30 minutes which by the way it's called

0:55.5

mega charging because it's going to take more than a megawatt of power to charge at

0:59.6

that rate probably somewhere around 1.6 megawatts. The battery itself will be 1 megawatt hour at least

1:05.9

1 million mile drivetrain guarantee for individual drivetrains.

1:13.2

Even with two operating, it will still perform better than a diesel semi-truck.

1:17.5

On top of incredible performance, incredible safety coming with enhanced autopilot, which

1:21.2

by the way I've heard is pretty good on the highway

1:23.5

individual motor control to each wheel greatly reducing the likelihood and the impact of a

1:28.7

jackknife situation and maybe most importantly all of this coming with a total cost of ownership that's 20% lower than a diesel truck or even 50% lower if you operate these in a convoy.

1:39.6

We don't have all the pricing and costing details of this yet.

1:42.4

However, there's no reason in my mind to

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