okay so here's the thought coming up soon is the Tesla semi event and I'm
wondering does Elon and team have something else in mind now we already
know they're planning a pickup truck but I'm just throwing I'm just this is just
thinking that I'm gonna be throwing out there and all right here's what I'm I'm
kind of putting together here now I know it's not comparing apples to apples
exactly but could Tesla very easily make a miniature I guess semi or even a
multi-purpose pickup truck because if you think about it
pickup trucks contribute to a lot of vehicular sales in North America in US
Canada I don't know so much around the rest of the world but I know in the u.s.
in Canada pickup trucks are a very versatile vehicle so I'm so that's for
starters here let's just throw out some numbers and then I'll explain away the P
100d puts out approximately 588 horsepower and it has approximately 920
foot-pounds of torque now mind you the P 100 D is also
designed for getting up to high speeds very quickly at that so with a little
bit different gear ratio in the differentials you could get considerably
more torque out of these those motors and that's just the dual motor car next
if you take a look at the average semi-truck an average semi-truck is
going to put out approximately 400 horsepower and 1300 foot-pounds of
torque Oh 400 to 500 horsepower for an average semi-truck in thirteen hundred
foot-pounds of torque roughly
and just for reference FedEx has a rough limitation of 500 horsepower maximum for
corporate and owner operators which means owner people that have us own
their own semi-truck and are contracted by FedEx just just to throw that out
there so what am I getting yet but I'm getting at is we already know it Tesla's
have an electric motors in electric vehicles in general have an insane
amount of torque and we already know based on what Tesla's told us
Tesla's going to be using the same motors on the Tesla semi as in the model
3 so they're actually permanent magnet motors not AC induction motors like
what's on the existing ones permanent magnet motors are great and put out lots
of power at lower lower lower speeds or lower power demand when you want
performance for blistering rpms that's when you go to AC induction motors now
they could go either way with this but just a thought a dually pickup truck if
Tesla made a dually pickup truck or a pickup truck with dual rear axles and a
motor on both rear axles and a motor on the front axle Tesla could easily
surpass the torque required that that a semi truck requires the only problem
then would be how much battery power which I mean right now all the battery
packs for the Model S and X are standardized and the model 3 has a
different design pattern pack so the s and X use the same design battery pack
and same cells the model 3 this is a larger cell and a you know physically
different shaped battery pack 250 the model 3 it's smaller stature which isn't
much smaller so if you think about it we have a hundred
kilowatt hour battery packs already from the Model S and the X now a Tesla pickup
truck I would say it would be at least the size of an X if not a little bit
larger or at least longer and probably higher to most pickup trucks are gonna
be a little higher off the ground so you know they can do something that's maybe
a double stacked and this isn't even considering what future energy density
might be but like a double stack pack you're talking then if they're using the
same same packs that the S and the X are still using you're still talking and
then 200 kilowatt hours our triple stacked if the vehicles up high enough
now you're talking 300 kilowatt hours of capacity and that's 300 kilowatt hours
of capacity is quite a bit now a mini pickup a semi truck or in this case a
beefed-up pickup truck instead of a mini semi truck think 5th wheel trailers our
gooseneck trailers you got the hitches mounted right into the bed of the pickup
truck and it's got the gooseneck coming down and and over which is similar to
how a semi truck hauls and I've seen single non dually single rear axle
pickup trucks pulling car haulers with five or six cars on them so I mean you
got the power diesel vehicles and gas vehicle are already pulling gooseneck
and in fifth wheel trailers so that was just my thought you know hanging around
in my head if you could have three motors maybe a little bit different gear
ratio to allow the motors to run at a higher rpm while still you know a little
more you know lowering in Crete and also increasing the torque higher rpm you
know playing with the gear ratio I think it would actually be fairly simple for
Tesla to put out something that would be a excellent tractor trailer puller what
are your thoughts comment in the description box below keep this clean
for those of you out there that are just joining us from the gas and diesel
community you know things are changing there's no
stopping it electrics here to stay let's make it
work for everyone so what are your ideas we'll revisit this again after we get a
good number of comments and I'll read off some of the ideas and see if we can
come up with some some neat solutions maybe get Tesla moving along because
even they're missing out on a big market share to not having a pickup truck out
there I know a lot of people that would switch to Tesla if they can get a pickup
truck yeah and you're even something that has a little bit more towing
capacity just with my own experience the amount of range reduction on a Model S
towing which is most the range reductions due to drag not weight of the
trailer the car has more than enough power to pull anything out there I have
seen a Model S not a model X a Model S pull a 10,000 pound trailer not very far
just because no it was not me especially if Tesla if you're watching this so I
know avoiding any warranties no I did not pull a 10,000 pound trailer with my
Model S but I have seen I promise not to take pictures because they didn't want
their warranty voided it was kind of a necessity thing a 10,000 pound trailer
and I let me try it too and you couldn't even tell it was behind behind the the
car that's that's how insane the power is on a Tesla vehicle just for starters
it's the range problem so a hundred kilowatt hour pack isn't gonna cut it
for pulling a twenty or thirty thousand pound trailer not by a longshot but a
two hundred kilowatt hour pack I think that would be great I mean I I know lots
of people that drive from Milwaukee to Chicago Chicago to Milwaukee Milwaukee
to Chicago doing certain runs and I mean that's a 75 80 mile each way trip
and I think that would be perfectly doable with a 200 kilowatt hour pack
just just thinking out there so way in Bureau opinions and let's get this
discussion going