Pepsi Tesla Semi Truck Drives 1600 Miles Over Two Days in Real World Tests

What they can do right now is good enough for a portion of the market.  It will also be easy to manage battery temperatures as well with a propane heater, needed anyway for cab comfort.

Definate proof of capability and against a whole slew of competators producing half the range.  Not good.

this wil be on the road soon.

the takehome for all of us is that the EV has now turned multiple tipping points and all those pesky problems will now start going away.

an example of just that is that an informant bought one and been a real estate agent, he found it terribly frustrating.  he gave it to his father to drive to work everyday and he could not be happier.  recall that our old infrastructure is over engineered at best for tasks never called upon.

Pepsi Tesla Semi Truck Drives 1600 Miles Over Two Days in Real World Tests

September 18, 2023 by Brian Wang

One of Tesla Semi trucks drove 1600 miles over two days. This required two different drivers on each day. Truck drivers in the US are limited to 10 hours of driving without a long break. Semi trucks need to operate long distances day after day. Tesla Semi outrange the competing electric Semi by three to six times multiple days. Tesla can do 70% charge in 60 minutes and 90% charge in 90 minutes. 15-30 minutes for 15-35% topoff charges. Pepsi has 750 kw chargers installed. Tesla Semi were charging during the day to get operated distance.

UPDATE: I have a new article comparing Tesla Semis with Diesel Semis based upon the Runonless real world data.

The best competing two day distance was 450 miles an eCascadia electric semi truck operated by OK Produce at Run on Less real world testing event.

Tesla Semi is not only beating the competing electric semi trucks on distance on a single charge but also by showing fast charging and heavy operations day after day. The Tesla Semi are averaging 300-500 miles each day while competing electric tests are in the 100-240 miles per day ranges. Tesla does have many days in the 500-810 miles of operation each day.

North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE)’s is the group running the Run on Less event. Mike Roeth of NACFE has said that the Pepsi Tesla Semi are performing some of these real world tests with 80000 lbs gross weight loads. This is within 2000 pounds of the legal maximum payloads and prove that Tesla Semi can operate at the max loads. The Tesla Semis have been driving over 400 miles on a single charge with full loads and average speeds of 65 miles per hour.