top 10 cool things you didn't know about the tesla semi now starting off let's talk about
the range so the range of the tesla semi during unveiling was said to be 500 miles for the long
range variant and 300 miles for the shorter range variant but that unveiling happened about
three years ago where recently elon musk was interviewed and during the interview he said
that the range of the tesla semi could be about 1 000 kilometers and then you can take the range
if you want for long range trucking uh up to we think uh easily 800 kilometers and we see a path
over time to get to a thousand kilometer range uh with a heavy-duty truck this is like i said truck
on the order of 40 metric ton uh total mass so basically the truck got a 120 mile
range boost in about three years now i think the shorter range variant which is supposed to be 300
miles will be closer to somewhere around 400 miles and that's at max growth's weight which
means the truck is traveling at highway speeds 60 miles an hour or about 100 kilometers an hour
at maximum gross weight allowed on the us highways which is about 80 000 pounds at those
speeds that's about 10 hours of continuous driving which i don't even think is allowed i think you
are required to take a break after a few hours of driving now next point we got acceleration
and why does this even matter for a semi well i don't know about you but whenever i'm stuck
behind a semi truck whether i'm on the highway or on city streets i tend to change lanes and
go around it and why is that purely because i know it's going to be slower even if it's on the
highway i know it's just going to be traveling slower and on the city it's going to accelerate
slower at stop lights so i know it's just better to stay behind other vehicles instead of staying
behind the semi truck even if it doesn't have a trailer those semi trucks accelerate pretty slowly
and you can see this all around next time you go out driving just notice what other drivers
do behind a semi truck you'll actually notice a lot of people change lanes purely because
they're slower and so acceleration for the semi truck from zero to 60 miles an hour is about
five seconds without a trailer with a trailer at max gross weight at eighty thousand pounds it can
do zero to sixty in 20 seconds which is incredibly quick for such a heavy vehicle so coming back to
why does this matter well think about this now you're behind a tesla semi and you know it's a
tesla semi so instead of moving out of the way you can stay behind that semi truck because you know
it will accelerate and keep up with traffic and you don't have to change lanes and plus what
this results in is lower traffic lower congestion that's just a benefit to every road user and also
just a side note here probably don't try to drag race the tesla semi i mean it can probably outrun
you even if it's carrying a trailer you don't know how much weight is in the trailer i don't
even think they're allowed to drag race but if someone was in the mood to drag race a tesla semi
and the driver was up for it sad to say but you might lose against a semi truck even if you have
a sports car the next point that i want to come to is high speed mountain climbing or the ability to
climb mountains at relatively high speeds this semi truck will have the capability to climb
a five percent grade at maximum vehicle gross weight about eighty thousand pounds at miles
an hour apparently the best of the best semi trucks the diesel semi trucks can only do about
45 miles an hour and those are the best of the best i'm pretty sure most of the trucks on the
road aren't the best of the best and that is why you realize say you're going up a hill especially
if you live near the rockies or anywhere there's hills you will notice that there's a separate lane
four semi trucks and the semi trucks would change into that lane because they know they
would be going slower now imagine the tesla semi coming along at 80 000 pounds and just pulling
the load like it's nothing your gas car might struggle going up the hill but not the tesla semi
and this can be very beneficial because when going up a hill you wouldn't actually block traffic
especially if it's one of those older roads without a second lane added onto it and everyone
just has to stay behind the semi truck and i know i've been in those situations where i had to
pretty much go at about 30 miles an hour up a hill when the speed limit was closer to like 50 or 60
miles an hour you don't want to be doing that so this truck is just another great help just like
the city example i took on my last point now one question a lot of people have about the tesla semi
a lot of drivers and a lot of companies actually have which elon just recently hinted towards was
weight and weight is a key component because the more the tractor weighs the less weight there can
be in the trailer basically less goods can be transported in the trailer and this is quite
bad if you have a really heavy trailer you can transport less goods which means you'll earn
less money but the tesla semi is only supposed to be with the 600 mile range variant is only
supposed to be about 1 000 pounds heavier than a comparable diesel truck uh you're able to carry
uh the basically the same cargo as a regular diesel truck like this we think maybe there's a
um a one-ton penalty maybe but at this point we think possibly you can even have less than
a one ton uh pillared reduction but and it could long term i think be zero colored
reduction for four electric trucks even if it's just one thousand pounds heavier which
is kind of shocking if i'm being honest for a 1 000 kilometer range that is a truck that can pull
80 to 90 percent of the loads on u.s roads today and also think about it this way most
trucks aren't carrying their maximum gross weight almost never and so even if you had to lose 1 000
pounds from the trailer it's not really that big of a deal because the cost savings alone
would pay for it and also there is a lower range variant about 300 miles during the unveiling which
closer to 400 miles now but what if that variant was actually lighter than an equivalent diesel
truck so for short commutes you can use that truck and it can carry more weight in the trailer it's
just something to think about now let's talk about charging so this truck will be capable of charging
from zero to eighty percent in about 30 minutes which means you can get about 450 miles of range
in about 30 minutes and here's why recharge time is actually beneficial for a semi so based on the
law you are legally required to take about a 30 minute stop after however five or six hours of
driving you can correct me on the details here but after a long time of driving you are required to
take a 30 minute break and so while you're taking that break this truck can charge from almost
empty to 450 miles of range in about 30 minutes and here's something i don't really see talking
about a car you can fill up in under five minutes at a gas station a big semi truck with about 2 000
kilometers of range they take about 15 minutes to refuel and during that time you're not actively
taking a break you're just standing there while the truck is refueling itself but while charging
you don't actually have to stand there wait for it to just charge up you can go inside the shop
or wherever you are maybe a restaurant you can go take a wash and break grab something to eat and by
the time you are done all of that the truck will be more than enough charge for the next leg of
your journey so in that case an electric semi truck will actually be more convenient than a
diesel semi and for charging tesla is developing their mega chargers and they will deploy them as
necessary because they're going to be working with the companies who actually bought the trucks
like pepsi or walmart or basically any other company who actually has a big order for truck
and so they'll put the mega chargers on their route first and then put the mega chargers in
various places so you can go pretty much all around the continental us and hopefully canada in
a few short years now let's talk about reliability and reliability is quite a big factor for any car
let alone any vehicle and especially a semi truck a car you don't really have to do anything
especially if you have a relatively new car all you really have to make sure is top up
the windshield washer fluid change the oil twice a year depending on how much you drive and such and
that's pretty much it for the most part but a semi truck you have to do a lot more maintenance on
but being an electric semi truck there really isn't that much to do and because of that you
have more time where your truck is working earning money rather than being in the shop
not earning you anything and this is just standard with all electric vehicles and this truck is just
going to use four motors and tesla says that if two motors fail the truck is still drivable
this truck will come with a one million mile or 1.6 million kilometer warranty this means the
battery the drivetrain and pretty much everything that goes along with it now another added benefit
for going electric is braking the fact that you don't actually have to use the physical brakes
and the reason for that is all electric vehicles use something called regen and what that really
does is turn the electric motor into a generator you can think of it kind of like a wind turbine
wind pushes the blades it turns the turbine and inside there's an electric motor generating
electricity effectively your electric vehicle just becomes an electricity generator and that
electricity charges up the battery so when going down the hill what happens is instead of using the
physical brakes which can wear out or simply stop working which actually has happened and that's
why you need these truck runoff points you can use regen and you will actually end up with more range
at the bottom of the hill than you had at the top without using physical brakes this means that the
physical brakes will pretty much last the life of the truck or a very very very long time probably a
million miles or greater the next point is safety and safety is really important because trucks are
on the road for a very very long time they're on the road almost its entire usable life and because
of that it needs to be really safe and it needs to keep others on the road and its driver safe
so how does it do that well you got a low center of gravity reducing the rollover risk
which also aids in handling for example we've all seen these videos on the internet probably where a
truck is flipped over you might actually seen one in person and why does that happen it's because
of a high center of gravity with the batteries being really low and batteries have a lot of mass
the center of gravity is very low almost next to the wheels which means that the rollover risk for
this truck is very very low or drastically reduced and this can be big imagine you're driving around
say going over a bridge and it's really windy with a low center of gravity the truck will just feel
stable it will feel stable it will act stable it will have great handling characteristics for a
semi truck and it'll drive more like a car than a semi truck i think but i never driven one and
we only have illness where to go off of so we just have to wait and see when it comes out
to the market now the windshield for the tesla semi is also thermonuclear explosion-proof glass
whatever that means i'm pretty sure it means something like a nuclear war or something
apocalyptic scenario where you want it to be safe cool can be useful because it's 20 20 we
don't know what's gonna happen in the future but what's really important is that the glass does not
break it's tesla armored glass that we've seen in the cyber truck this time it didn't break because
it didn't demonstrate it during the unveiling but it's tesla armored glass and that should mean that
the glass shouldn't break or at least not that easily and if the glass breaks according to law
you just have to park the truck and that's it you just have to wait to get it fixed which means the
truck is basically useless not earning you money it's not usable at during that time now this truck
should come with autopilot as standard and it should also be capable of full self driving should
have all the sensors suite all the cameras to be capable of complete full self driving and because
of that this truck should actually be more safe than other trucks because it can essentially take
care and make decisions for the driver it can stay in its lane steer brake accelerate to avoid danger
and this can be helpful for the driver you may have seen videos of drivers maybe snoozing off or
maybe even like a truck on the road you know going a bit side to side in the lane that could be a
tired driver but based on most tesla owners who do a road trip in a tesla they always say that it's
much more relaxing letting the autopilot drive than drive themselves and there are a few benefits
to doing that because with electric trucks you're already reducing the cost of shipped goods
it reduces the cost to the end consumer but that also means that if you have such an autopilot
system you can put them in a convoy kind of like a train and what that's gonna do is reduce the cost
even more and elon said it'll even beat rail which is actually the cheapest form of transportation
in the us and so now the biggest cost is to pay the driver now once the human is out of
the picture what is that going to mean for you as the end consumer it's going to mean that you
will get your shift goods possibly quicker and cheaper which i think as a society we can all
appreciate because we're in this covered world right now where more than ever people are shopping
online and reducing the cost even just a little bit is very very helpful to everyone now what does
this mean for truck drivers and this segways well into my last point and it's not really a
point it's not like a cool feature it's just a message that i want to give to truck drivers so
if you are a truck driver or you have friends who are truck drivers please share this video
or just tell them what i'm going to be telling you autonomous trucking is coming and it's coming fast
this truck will be equipped with all the hardware needed for complete full self driving and there
are a lot of other manufacturers that are doing the same thing if you are planning on getting a
truck you should really consider a truck that has the capability to drive completely autonomously
and it must be electric that way you can reduce your costs and be very competitive in the market
trucking is one industry where companies are eager to cut costs and an electric autonomous semi truck
will be cheaper than driving a car today just think about that for a moment and i've made
a video talking about this transition and why it could be a very big deal and you can click
on that video in the top right corner of your screen trucking is becoming very volatile robots
are taking over and that means that your career might be in danger and if you don't realize the
danger of new technology and how this can benefit all of society and how you can benefit from this
disruption then you really need to get on that page as soon as possible for example you can start
your own trucking company maybe buy one tesla semi see how it does reduce your cost right away by
being electric and once regulatory bodies approve of complete full self-driving you wouldn't even
have to drive the truck it can drive to places by itself and at that point it'll just be earning you
money whereas you're just managing the truck if there's any maintenance needing to be done you
will tell it to go there you will tell it where to pick up goods where to drop them off and it'll do
the rest by itself the driving and everything and it won't be legally required to take a break it'll
just need a 30 minute top up and it can drive to its destination if it's such a long journey
i don't really know the trucking business that's why this was just a simple example but this can
endanger your livelihood the first doctors will be companies once regulatory bodies approve they'll
start laying off drivers like it's nothing and it is your responsibility to be up to date with this
disruption and protect you and your family it's happening and it's happening faster than ever
and it'll happen right in front of you but if you won't be able to see it then you might be
left behind so what are some steps you can take to learn about this transition learn about this
disruption well firstly you can start by doing some research on autonomous trucking as a whole
what what other companies are doing when are they bringing the trucks out to market and just how
much interest is vested in it and then you can also look at what's happening in the car world
and let me tell you this full self-driving beta is shown clearly that autonomous driving is coming
soon and i'm not talking a matter of years i'm talking a matter of weeks and months and complete
full self-driving without any human driver you can start talking to your friends about this you
can start asking other people their opinions you can start looking at other youtube videos
of people who are well educated in this manner and start preparing yourself for this transition
and this disruption but the key step here is to realize that there is a disruption happening
you can't blindly trust the government to help you out or just blindly say that this will never
happen because every time anyone has ever said something will never happen shortly after that
they've been proven wrong so please share this message to your fellow truck drivers
your friends or your family whoever may be involved in this trucking business and
let them be prepared for this transition let them understand what's happening and
and just learn what you can do about it and just by doing that you can protect you your family
your livelihood your income and be at the top of the game and you can use this to your advantage
thank you for watching i hope you enjoyed this one and i hope you got a meaningful message out of it