#tesla semi truck

[indeedgoodman]

[evehiclesaura]

People Surround New Tesla Semi Truck at a California Demonstration Place.

Seeing the new look of Tesla’s semi truck at the Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant in California, the people there were completely amazed and started taking pictures with it. Seeing which accident, what action did the driver of Tesla semi truck take? Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant is a renowned hospitality destination located in Coalinga, California, in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. The…

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

The Semi conducted nine deliveries in that timeframe, covering 794 miles on day two, and 806 miles on day three, around California. It drove at highway speeds for roughly 90 percent of the distance. “NACFE has verified that these are fairly fully loaded when they leave and stay fairly loaded,” said NACFE’s director Mike Roeth(..)

[5nakeb4it]

And all the while there's a logger in a garage in Canada outpacing musk after realizing the Tesla semi truck was a sham and getting so mad he decided to build an electric semi truck company from the ground up with just some other guys he knew. Now they have fully functioning diesel/electric hybrids that are miles more efficient than conventional logging tucks and have everything short of self driving promised by Tesla trucks

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

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https://www.tesla.com/semi

Charging with electricity is approximately 2 times cheaper per mile than refueling with diesel.1 Operators can see estimated fuel savings of up to $150,000 within their first three years of ownership. With remote diagnostics, over-the-air software updates and fewer moving parts to maintain, operators will spend less time at service centers and more time on the road.

Semi comes standard with active safety features that pair with advanced motor and brake controls to deliver traction and stability in all conditions. A central seating position gives the driver better visibility, while an all-electric architecture reduces both rollover risk and cabin intrusion in case of an accident.

With less than 2 kWh per mile of energy consumption, Semi can travel up to 500 miles on a single charge. Recover up to 70 percent of range in 30 minutes using Tesla’s Semi Chargers.

Three independent motors provide instant torque and unmatched power at any speed so drivers can merge safely and keep pace with traffic. Accelerate from 0-60 mph in 20 seconds, fully loaded, and maintain highway-level speeds even up steep grades.

[d1sc0-1nfern0]

Caspian drives an old beat up pickup truck.

Aax drives a motorcycle.

Centross drives a new pickup and also a motorcycle.

Fenris drives a sports car and a motorcycle. (The 1% babyyy)

Rae drives a minivan (a classic soccer mom minivan).

Ocie drives a minivan and a motorcycle.

Momboo drives either a minivan, a convertible, or an Electric car.

Easton drives an illegally modified street racer car (pre-blindness).

Arisanna drives a convertible.

Will does not drive.

Ulysses drives an old shoddy pickup that’s always just a couple miles from breaking down. He can also drive a semi if he needs to.

Jerry used to drive a truck but it broke down. Now he drives Ocie’s minivan.

Fable drives a Tesla.

Icarus also drives a Tesla (one of their dad’s cars).

Ven drives a moped. Or a bicycle. (And Fable’s golf cart.)

Easton, Centross, and Icarus all used participate in illegal street racing.

Aax, Centross, Fenris, and Ocie all go on motorcycle rides together on Sunday afternoons when the weather’s nice. Rae and Caspian ride with Fenris and Aax when they join. Occasionally they’ll drag Ari along and she’ll ride with Fen or Ocie.

[galacticdrift]

WILD energy during my road trip down to San Fran and back for BigBadCon.

FOUR cybertrucks (on top of an absurd number of regular teslas, eugh)

a truck towing a small trailer straight up marked "Explosives"

another one towing a trailer marked "Asbestos" (especially notable because it looked like a livestock trailer but fully enclosed in sheet metal)

SO many poorly-behaved semis. if there are three lanes then I should ABSOLUTELY NEVER SEE A SEMI IN THE FASTEST LANE, GET YOUR ASS OVER YOU PIECE OF ABSOLUTE DOGSHIT

midway point hotel on the way down was right by a trucker stop and had an honest to god bitcoin ATM next door (I cannot express how much this hotel was miles and miles from ANYTHING other than a shithole little town, so I can't imagine why anyone there would want BTC in the first place)

the tonal whiplash going from the inland I-5 corridor roadside ads/signs (Trump, Jesus, Casinos) to the Bay Area ads/signs (AI, AI, SOC 2 Compliance, AI, Open Source)

pulled over by a cop on my last day in SF -- I thought for an inappropriate sudden left turn but it turns out I have a burned out tail light

went for (I thought) a nicer midway point hotel on the way back, only to walk into my room and find two (2) spiders, three (3) beetles of various sizes, and one (1) cockroach over an inch long. you bet your ass I peeled up all the bedding and checked the mattress for bedbugs before I went to sleep.

also half that town apparently closes down on Monday nights

ended up at a nice restaurant on the river and had a dish with salmon from that very river. the salmon was overcooked, the 'smashed fingerling potatoes' were undercooked and not even a little bit smashed, the 'beurre blanc' was a watery soup, and the 'seasonal vegetable' was one (1) singular giant broccoli stalk. also I think it was the day before the restaurant went under new ownership?

passed a (small) Trump convoy, consisting of a van with deranged Jesus nonsense scribbled all over it and a pickup truck, both flying giant ratty-ass USA & Trump flags. hope the secret service has eyes on the WA-03 race because Kent is absolutely frothing at the mouth to start his own little riot/coup. it's a safe bet he's somehow responsible for the burned ballot boxes in Portland/Vancouver tbh.

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE TRUCK ART. dragon on the left side. same dragon on the right side. same dragon on the tailgate, but there also CUDDLING A BOBCAT.

shoutout to Maverick Jack's in SF, though. genuinely, unironically, some of THE BEST burgers I've ever had in my entire fucking life.

[dangerous-disposition]

me: [watching a dashcam compilation that includes a video of a Tesla trying to cut-off a semi that signalled in plenty of time to enter the left lane and overtake slower traffic in Pennsylvania] me: [goes to the comments and likes the comment of someone saying that the Tesla driver was an entitled asshole bc there was no reason for him to cut the truck off like that] european weirdo: well in europe truckers aren't allowed to take the fast lane if there are three lanes multiple people: this didn't happen in europe tho. in america anyone can take the left lane if they're overtaking traffic european weirdo: there's three lanes. it's illegal for the truck to take the fast lane multiple people: not in america tho!!!

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

I don't know if anyone remembers "Duel," a 70s TV movie about a sinister semi truck that tries to kill a salesman by running him off the road. The salesmen (Dennis Weaver) goes into a truck stop and the evil truck is parked there. One of the patrons is the homicidal driver, but we don't know who.

I just went into a restaurant and a Tesla CyberTruck is parked in front. Having that same feeling: Who is the driver of this thing?

*Trivia*

That TV movie was directed by a young Steven Spielberg.

[Looks like a dumpster and a Kitchenaid dishwasher had a love child]

(Randy Hoexter)

[freetheshit-outofyou]

I was out and about looking for a new fishing hole when two Tesla semi trucks pulled up and one dropped this off in the desert. It was gone when I came back an hour later.

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How We Built an Electric Truck From Scratch

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

NACFE states that the “Tesla Semis will be tracked in heavy-load long-haul transport operations.” The participant profiles indicate that the trucks will drive over two routes around Sacramento for 18 days – the distance on route one ranges between 250-450 miles, with a gross vehicle weight of up to 82,000 pounds, while the second route has less than 75 miles per day of driving. The payload for the latter is described as “heavy leaving, diminishing load.”

[remembertheplunge]

Your soul snags on the barbwire.

I’m here in the long, wide beige Stanislaus County Detention Center (Jail) lobby. I'm here to see an inmate client in the jail.

The Detention center is located in the country outside of Modesto, California.

I’ve checked in with the clerk through a window at the Western end of the lobby. 20 feet away is the entrance door to the jail. The jail lobby is about 150 feet long, 50 feet wide with high ceilings. At the Eastern end are three kiosk desks for family video visits with inmates. Two sets of maybe 10 hard plastic chair are located along the northern glass wall of the lobby.

Seated in the row of chairs close to the jail entrance door is a Mexican family. They happily chatter in their native tounge. I had checked in on arrival and was waiting for a guard to appear at the entrance door to let me in to visit with a client. It is about 1:45pm today, April 20, 2024 Saturday.

We wait.

We are in the human zoo’s lobby. It’s a zoo in which only the zoo guards regularly see “the animals”.

Do zoo animals feel “caged”?

Why cage the human animal?

Is it from Puritan times? To give them time to think about what they did?

Is it a societal band-aid meant to keep them off the street or to appease the outside populace? In most cases, it’s a temporary fix. The animal will be released.

But, the fix alters the animal’s life. He  sometimes comes out branded “felon’. He is shunned by his fellows. He is on a leash off probation or parol. It’d difficult therefore for him to find work.

A guard opens the jail entrance door and says “Jose”. The middle aged hispanic man in the white shirt who’d been sitting with the family stands, as does the family, children and a woman. The surround the man, then walk with him to the door. The door closes, he’s gone, probably to begin serving a jail sentence. The rest of the family leaves. The woman’s eyes well up.

Soon another woman, this time white in her 30’s probably, enters the lobby and goes up to the check in window. The woman said “I’m here for a visit (with an inmate). The clerk said "You didn’t receive the e mail that all visits were canceled due to a jail lock down?" The woman says “All right”. She leaves in frustration, eyes glistening with tears.

Now two women sit at one of the visiting kiosk desks. They are also hispanic. One older, one younger, maybe in her 30’s. They are largely silent waiting for the visit too begin.

The long beige lobby again is silent.

Outside, the April air is warm and sweet. It’s inviting. Rebuffed by the lobby, the outside day might as well be on another planet. It has no relevance here.

I have visited clients in this jail many times over the years. And, for many years before that in the old downtown jail. Once you visit the human zoo, part of you remains there.Your soul snags in the barbed wire atop the jail walls.

Sill waiting to see my client

The woman at the kiosk finally connect with a man on their video screen. I get a glimpse of him. He’s a 20 something hispanic male. 

The younger woman, who speaks in English (the older woman spoke to him in Spanish)  The younger woman asked him “How are you doing? Send Mom some of your drawings. Have you bought your things for the week? (from the jail commissary) Angel’s birthday is on Thursday. I can watch you on you tube when you go to court.  She asked him if he had anything planned when he got out? She could make a resume for him for Tesla. Fed X pays good. It would be something for you to come out and look forward to.. “You should go to school. Like David. Learn how to drive semi trucks. Explore the states. Get out of here. Do something new, you and your girlfriend. Different vibes. We’re here for you. Whatever you need. Just keep your head up."

I’m still waiting.

I can talk with my client in Court on Monday. Maybe I came here to touch base with the lobby—to visit the part of my soul which is forever snagged out here.

I return to the window, return the jail ID badge the clerk had given me on arrival, and go out into the April day.

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Tesla Semi Truck by Perico001 Via Flickr: IAA Nutzfahrzeuge 2024 Deutsche Messe Hannover Deutschland - Germany September 2024