Recently, foreign media reported that Tesla Semi, which has been skipping tickets for a long time, will be officially delivered at the end of this month! The first Tesla Semi will be delivered to Pepsi For a total of 15 units.
Looking back at the life of Tesla Semi, as early as 2017, it has made its debut, and the car has two different endurance versions of 300 miles and 500 miles, with a starting price of 150,000 US dollars (about 956,000 yuan). But interestingly, at that time, the car was only in the concept stage and had already received many orders.
PGE (Pride Group Enterprise) ordered 150 units, UPS (United Parcel Service) ordered 125 units, and PepsiCo ordered 100 units. You know, this is Tesla's first involvement in the field of commercial vehicles, the products previously launched such as Tesla Model S, Model X are mainly passenger cars, just entered the field of commercial vehicles by the big manufacturers love, can be said to be the king of the explosive products.
So the question is, Tesla Semi, where is the cow?
Largely because Tesla Semi's unique selling points are deeply appealing to investors. For example, its breakthrough in the mainstream of the design, due to the characteristics of pure electric vehicles, the entire front of the car does not have too much cumbersome line design, closed front face design is like the bullet head of a high-speed train. Therefore, its drag coefficient is only 0.36Cd.
In terms of power, the car is equipped with 4 drive motors on the rear axle to provide a strong power output, but at present, the official has not released the relevant specific information, only to know that it is in the case of full load of 36 tons, 0-60 miles acceleration time is only 20s, presumably the driver who drives it can't help but hum a sentence "This is the same feeling as flying"!
For a pure electric truck, the efficiency of battery life and power supply is very important, after all, time is money Tesla Semi how to deal with it?
Musk said that with reference to Tesla Model S/X, the two are equipped with a battery pack with an energy density of 100kWh, and the endurance exceeds 300+ miles, so Tesla Semi is a large block, and it is likely to be equipped with a battery pack with an energy density of 500kWh to ensure that it has enough excellent battery life performance.
In the problem of power replenishment efficiency, for a pure electric truck with an energy density of up to 500kWh, it is difficult for ordinary charging piles to meet the high efficiency of power supply. Therefore, Tesla has developed a separate charging station for Semi that is more efficient than the charging efficiency of Tesla's supercharger station , Megacharger.
It is reported that the maximum output power of Megacharger's charging pile is as high as 1.5 megawatts, which can be charged for 30 minutes and travel 400 miles, and the charging efficiency is very efficient.
In addition, tesla Semi is an extremely smart and safe pure electric van. For example, the Autopilot assisted driving system equipped with Tesla Model S is also owned by Tesla Semi, so truck drivers can get a more convenient and comfortable intelligent travel experience when running long distances.
The cameras around the body and on-board sensors can detect the dynamics of the body in real time, reduce the visual blind spot as much as possible, improve the safety of the car, and solve the problem that the blind spot of the truck is too large.
Although the first deliveries only handed over a small number of 15 Tesla Semis, for Tesla, it must be a big step. After all, the current commercial truck market has both intelligent technology configuration and good performance of pure electric trucks, really very few, if it is really as Musk said, the endurance is long enough, there is a big breakthrough in charging efficiency, then it means that Tesla has opened up a new road in another market!