The Tesla Semi has now been examined by a couple of totally different corporations, and up to date consumer DHL has simply shared its outcomes from a two-week trial interval with the Class 8 truck, noting that it considerably outperformed the corporate’s expectations.
On its web site, DHL has posted preliminary outcomes from a two-week testing interval with the Tesla Semi, through which it drove the electrical Class 8 truck over 3,000 miles of its regular working routes primarily based in Livermore, California. A part of the trial included a 390-mile haul with the Semi absolutely loaded with a gross mixed weight of 75,000 kilos, which the corporate says confirmed the electrical car’s (EV’s) capacity to haul “typical DHL payloads over an extended distance on a single cost.”
Impressively, DHL says that, for greater than half the time the crew drove the Semi, it averaged 1.72 kWh per mile when working at speeds exceeding 50 mph (80 km/h). As the corporate notes, this went method past DHL’s expectations in addition to Tesla’s personal score for the Semi.
On its web site, Tesla says the Semi can obtain a driving effectivity of “below 2 kWh” of vitality consumption per mile with a complete full-load vary of 300 or 500 miles. The Semi additionally has a battery pack of round 900 kWh.
“Maximizing vary and effectivity is essential to proving that long-haul electrical automobiles can carry out equal work to diesel,” writes Graham Caroll, DHL’s Head of Enterprise Improvement for semi-trucks. “We’re excited to see DHL verify the advantages of the Semi’s superior know-how and driver-centric options in reside industrial operations.”
Following the trial, DHL says it’s now evaluating the best way to combine the Semis into its fleet when Tesla begins quantity manufacturing of the Semi at an upcoming Gigafactory Nevada facility in 2026.
The trial additionally comes as the most recent in a sequence of corporations sharing early testing outcomes for the Semi. The first firm to get entry to Tesla’s Semis was PepsiCo, and it’s presently working the automobiles out of hubs in Modesto, Sacramento, and Fresno, California. PepsiCo’s early efficiency outcomes with the Semi additionally confirmed promising effectivity outcomes.
Throughout the IAA trucking convention in Münich, Germany final month, Tesla Semi Engineering Head Dan Priestley additionally shared a couple of extra particulars concerning the Semi’s early fleet information. One of many highlights from his presentation was that the Semi pilot fleet up to now has a 95-percent uptime together with scheduled and unscheduled upkeep.
Moreover, Priestley mentioned that greater than 4.65 million miles have been pushed for the reason that Semi pilot applications started, whereas one single Semi unit alone has pushed over 248,000 miles after simply 18 months.
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