Electricity is a sexy idea in trucking and you can blame that on Elon Musk – a guy who aims to send normal people into space just for fun.
In April, the serial entrepreneur tweeted that his engineering team “has done an amazing job” on the development of Tesla Semi, which he called “seriously next level” and teased a September 2017 debut.
Musk hasn’t offered a lot of details on the truck other than it will be “heavy-duty” and offer “long range.”
Musk previously disclosed the Tesla Semi would share “a lot” of common parts with the Tesla Model 3 sedan, including its motors.
Now, let’s circle back to one of Musk’s keywords: long range.
Tesla anticipates the Model 3 will deliver an all-electric range of at least 215 miles. That’s not exactly long.
Recharge estimates for the Model 3 aren’t yet available but according to Tesla’s website, a Model S that has been driven 300 miles needs 8 hours and 42 minutes to fully recharge. At that rate, it would take about 30 hours to drive Interstate 10 across the state of Texas – about 14 hours of driving plus 16 hours of charging.
