Diesel pickups are for chumps

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I agree with your assessment, especially with respect to towing. It's also probably why Tesla isn't planning on doing a pickup truck until after 2020. Currently, for their Semi, Tesla is claiming a 500 mile range, fully loaded, but I would expect that they're banking on making at least a couple of incremental advances in battery technology for that the happen. Same goes for the slated 600 mile range of the Roadster 2.0.

The Roadster 2.0 is another animal entirely... it will have 200kWh battery pack, but is likely at least as aerodynamic as the Model S... twice the battery, twice the range (likely a bit more lost due to weight of twice the battery) it's going to take 2.5 Hours for a full charge, but that's not that big of a deal when you have supercar performance... and it won't have nearly the load that trucks do. I'm sure Tesla's semis are packing huge battery packs... I'm curious how far they drive them, and where do they charge them?

Found this: https://electrek.co/2017/11/17/tesla...ck-specs-cost/

From that article:

Musk talked about the new megachargers adding 400 miles of range on the Tesla Semi in just 30 minutes. Using the same metrics released by Tesla for energy consumption, it would translate into roughly 1.6 MW charging or about more than 10 times more powerful than Tesla’s current Superchargers.