You are watching ColdFusion TV Hi. welcome to another ColdFusion video. as most of you know Tesla Just unveiled two electric semi-trucks and a new high-performance roadster in this video, I'll give my thoughts and commentary on the event and what this means for Tesla, and the industry as a whole first Let's briefly take a look at the trucks TRUCKING is actually a bigger industry than you might imagine taking the United States as an example the trucking industry Employs over 7 million people per year and 80 percent of all cargo in America is still transported by trucks That's four times as much as air pipeline rail and sea combined With this in mind you can easily see how Logistics companies would be very interested in an electric truck that performs better and is much cheaper to run then it's diesel counterpart Tesla shifted into high gear Unveiling its new all-electric semi-truck joining us right now analysts at arc invest it's hasha kini Tosha. Good to see you good Thanks so much for joining us now at arc. You cover autonomous cars and innovative materials. What did you think of the big reveal? Well Maria it confirmed What we had thought which is that an EV semi is going to be cheaper than a diesel semi. And by the way that truck is semi autonomous Today when that turns fully autonomous we think the cost per ton-mile could be reduced by 75% From today's rates, that's gonna be cheaper than rail It's gonna drive more goods over trucks, and it's gonna completely transform logistics as we know it Wow The electric trucks will do 0 to 100 kilometers now or 60 miles an hour in five seconds versus 15 seconds for the average truck in a worst-case scenario with a max gross vehicle weight of 80,000 pounds or about 36 tons the truck will be able to get 500 miles of range an Electric truck is inherently easier to drive because there's no gears, but meanwhile. It's not uncommon for normal trucks to have over 16 gears Tesla claims that 30 minutes of charge will get you 400 miles and For reference to fill the tank of a normal truck takes about 15 minutes So either way this makes sense if you've been driving a long time and just need a break Auto pilot will be standard so if you have a medical emergency while driving the truck will keep to its lane Gradually stop, and if it doesn't hear a response from you it even calls an ambulance The truck is also claimed to be a lot safer one of the reasons is due to a lower center of gravity from the weight Of the battery packs making rollovers very unlikely The risk of the truck jackknifing has also been said to be virtually eliminated due to independent torque vectoring on each wheel the company is offering a 1 million mile guarantee on each of these vehicles, so Although that's all pretty cool, and potentially revolutionary the main story was the Tesla Roadster 2.0 the original roadster was the car that started Tesla back in 2008 The Electric Forest had its share of obituaries over the years but the new American car company Tesla is determined to prove that the concept is a workable one the Manufacturer has just launched the Tesla Roadster an electric car that looks good and can hold its own in the performance arena so far Tesla is off to a promising start Tesla has pre-sold about 900 cars And it plans to build and sell over 3,000 more in 2009 and 2010 and in 2017 it was finally time for a refresh the new updated model is an absolute beast So as many of you know it can do 0 to 100 kilometres an hour or 60 miles an hour in 1.9 seconds And it's the first production car in the world to break the two-second barrier And it can do zero to 160 kilometres an hour or a hundred miles an hour in 4.2 seconds It's said to also produce 10 kilonewton meters of torque at the wheels At the recent presentation musk didn't say the top speed, but did say that it was above 250 miles an hour or 400 kilometers now by comparison the Agera RS by Sweden's Koenisseg currently holds the world record at 277.9 miles an hour or about 445 kilometers an hour The crowd was still getting over the top speed figures when musk announced that the roadster had a 200 kilowatt hour battery which were provided 620 miles of range or over a thousand kilometers for comparison the P 100 D has about 420 miles of range I Think the range will be key to converting or at least convincing those that are critical of electric cars That this is no longer a gimmick and also for all of this. It's important to note that This is the base model the slowest option of this new Tesla Roadster So the question has to be asked is this actually feasible, or is this pie in the sky Or the website Jalopnik spoke word Carnegie Mellon's venkat Viswanathan mechanical engineering assistant professor He focuses on next-generation battery technology. He remarked that the 1.9. Second figure actually seems reasonable he added that a 200 kilowatt hour battery pack can easily go 600 miles an interesting point of note is he estimates that the battery weight alone will be 833 kilograms or 1,800 pounds as It turns out It's actually the grip on the tires and the management of getting the power down from the motors to the actual wheels that will be the main bottlenecks in this vehicle But Tesla has actually had a lot of experience with the P 100 D on that front So it seems reasonable that they could get that done The thing that stood out to me is that this car is breaking all the records It looks like Tesla is doing this to make a solid point this vehicle was meant to be a statement a kind of watershed Moment to tell people that this is the direction that cars going to take No one can argue with it if it's faster quicker and more value for money than most supercars that are out there But that is if the production model has the same numbers that are listed for the prototype figures Speaking of other supercars. He is a fun list of how the Roadster 2.0. Stacks up against the petrel competition Nissen gt-r Nismo version 0 to 60 in 2.7 seconds costing you 175,000 McLaren p1 GTR 0 to 60 2.4 seconds at a cost of 3.6 million dollars lamborghini aventador sv 0 to 60 2.4 seconds again cost four hundred ninety three thousand bugatti chiron zero to sixty two point three seconds cost 2.6 million Now this next one is interesting the Dodge Challenger SRT demon coming out next year 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds cost eighty four thousand dollars, so that's actually great value for money next up the Porsche 918 Spyder zero to sixty in two point two seconds cost eight hundred forty five thousand and Then of course the new Tesla Roadster zero to sixteen one point nine seconds cost two hundred thousand So the question must be asked are there any cars that can actually do zero to sixty in under two seconds right now The answer is yes, but they're all f1 cars dragsters or rally cars But surprisingly the acceleration of f1 cars average from about 2.1 seconds 2.7 seconds for fun Nasa's saturn v. Rocket can do 0 to 60 in 1.5 seconds But if you learnt the ultimate a top fuel dragster can do that in 0.8 seconds it accelerates so Quickly that the car is already traveling at 60 miles an hour by the time the rear tires have crossed the start line You've got to keep in mind that these drag cars can't even turn properly and need a parachute to even slow down This isn't to mention that that they can only see one person and consume over half a standard tank of fuel per run So all in all 1.9 Seconds by Tesla in a production car isn't bad at all and if the company can get this into production by 2020 as planned The world has no choice, but to realize that they're looking at the future But all of that being said it's not all roses for Tesla. There's a wider context at play that I should talk about Some analysts were saying that this new roadster may have been a way to shift Investor attention away from the model 3 production issues and reignite some excitement in the company And I got to say that when I was watching the announcement I hadn't sensed - such excitement and elation from a crowd since the Apple keynotes of old I'm not so sure if the sole purpose of the Roadster was to shift attention away from the model 3 But I can certainly see the announcement being rushed forward to partly achieve that so anyway What production issues am I talking about with the model 3? most of you know the model 3 was supposed to be the electric car that was for the masses When it was launched back in July the company was anticipating a production rate of 20,000 cars per month by the end of December in the last quarter though Tesla only produced 260 model threes earlier in November Tesla pushed back its target volume production on the model 3 by about 3 months to fix production bottlenecks It's no secret that the fate of Tesla largely hangs on the success of the model 3 so it's important that they get this right and with vehicles like the electric semi Truck and the new roadster in the pipeline. I really do want Tesla to succeed so that these vehicles come to fruition It would be a lot easier to sit and criticize about how the company is missing deadlines But I think it's worth appreciating the magnitude of what the company is actually trying to do within the auto industry It's not easy for such a small and brand-new company, so hopefully the production issues get sorted out and the rest flows smoothly from there So anyway, what do you guys think what's your views on the Tesla truck and the new roadster? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below Anyway, thanks for watching. I know if being away for a little while I've actually been pretty sick I'm feeling better now But I recently just got my house broken into so that was another thing to add to what was going on But everything should be on track after this week, anyway. Thanks for watching I'll see you guys soon for the next video this has been togo go you've been watching cold fusion cheers guys Have a good one Cold Fusion, It's new thinking.
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Video by the popular ColdFusion channel. I skipped through it. Pretty good summary/analysis of the Roadster and the Semi. Didn't notice anything particularly new/insightful though.