One answer to the people who say "how can this be efficient using so much power?". The amount of power they have to bring in, is not relevant. If you replace 1 million trucks, you need power for 1 million trucks. If you replace one, you need power for one. The real question is: how much more efficiënt are they? A diesel truck does 6,5 miles on a gallon. A gallon is around 3.785 liters of fuel. A mile is around 1.609km. So, that translates to 3.785 liters of fuel on 10,46km or 2.76 km on 1 liters of fuel. There is around 10kWh of energy stored in 1 liter of diesel fuel. So 1km of driving a semitruck takes around 3,62kWh of energy. The energy needed to produce diesel is not taken into account in this number. A Tesla Semi uses up to 2kWh per mile, or 1.24kWh per kilometer. So the efficiency of a Tesla Semi is 3.62 / 1.24 = 2.92 times higher than a diesel semi truck. In other words: it takes almost 3x the amount of energy to move a diesel compared to an EV semi. And a truck that uses less energy, is cheaper to operate. If companies start buying these EV semi trucks, it's not because they like to save the planet. It's because they save 2 to 3 times the cost on fuel, every day, every year for every semi truck.

3 megawatts. 🤯 normal people have no clue how much power that really is.

I would love to see how the battery will last in winter in Alaska or Canada.

The trailer also needs improvements, solar panels on top and additional batteries that can be charged by solar, charger or swap technology.

Being a trucker for over 20 years now I really would love to drive these Teslas. No oil no diesel no noise 😮😮

I'd really like to hear them talk efficency vs diesel. Maintenance, brakes, fuel, acceleration, ease of use.

750kW is some impressive charging power! When Tesla brings the Semi to Europe I might consider changing employer and join the team.... I believe it will take the market by storm. Good job Pepsi for leading the way👏👏👏

Fantastic overview! It shows that Pepsi put a lot of work into this move to Tesla trucks, and continues to put in a lot of work to monitor the operation to understand it's efficiency and to optimize it. This is a big experiment for them. On the one hand I'm very impressed, on the other I'm a bit dismayed that the move to electric trucks took 3 years and so many smart people working on it.

I want to see an official CAT SCALE LOADED!

Would like you to make a video where we follow a driver and you have to let the driver talk freely about his experience of this apparently super semi. Also feel free to talk about range and load quantities etc.

That seems to be the key to success: the user's own customized recharging system. The "out of service" disease among public recharging sites is unacceptable.

that kind of charging is quiet changer, hopefully it could be possible to have it in many places for wider use

Thanks for the upload. That gal sure can spin the corporate speak. I see they went BYD for their yard mules. I wonder how that's working out. Didn't see any Nikola Motors trucks. They're selling a pretty slick cabover with all the usual EV bells and whistles with pretty decent specs for an electric semi. They're also running them local and regional. It'll be interesting to see how the batteries do with relatively deep discharges and fast recharging. The facility power requirements are really something. They'll need to run a lot more dedicated circuits to expand. Depending on the charge schedule, they'll also need some serious upgrades to be 100% solar powered charging. We'll have to keep an eye on how this test works out.

FINALLY! A straightforward video.

What is the purpose of theses skirts underneath the sidesteps? Improved aerodynamics?

This is amazing. Thank you

Man the Semi is so awesome! Can’t wait to see them improve more and have more companies use them! 😄

Looking at fuel cost/mile: Electric is "

As a class one truck driver I am still looking for a Tesla tractor unit in a video where they show even just the back of a tractor unit let alone the coupling and un coupling of the trailer airlines .

Impressive. Well done Pepsico.

With price reduction in batteries and renewables the transition will be quite rapid. I drive a 1 tonne van and running cost reduction has been the biggest change

Notice at 11:00 the other vehicle is a BYD. Are they using both types to compare or is BYD testing for their own market in China?

The problem is these vehicles only work in warm climates like California, not places like the Midwest, Just ask the bus companies that purchased electric buses. They can only go a few blocks before needing a recharge

Increidble achievement. I wish more companies would start doing electric trucks. You guys in America are so brave to pull this off, first in the world. Europe is still waiting, this needs to improve.

Sounds all quite good. How do they supply electricity 100% from solar if the trucks charge during the night?

They only carry chips for the longer runs and maybe sodas a short distance. A fully laden soda truck is heavy and knocks down the battery fast depending on the terrain.

I know here in central Wisconsin Pepsi has no near term use for EVs. We just don’t have the charging infrastructure in place yet. Plus most roads are 2 lane blacktop or gravel/sand/dirt roads

OH PEPSI is a trucking company - so says LANEC. From Microtrends "PepsiCo, Inc. is the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. It's driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages.' Gee funny they don't mention trucking revenues LANEC. There are none.

EV’s healthier for humans than the products they deliver 🎈

I'm a coke guy. That has nothing to do with the Semis Pepsi just tastes odd.

1.1 kWh/km is it fully loaded? What is the overall GTW?

No mention of the reduced load size to compensate for the battery weigh. It’s around 20,000 less load to stay under 80,000 gross maximum.

a solor panel roof for the trailers,may add some

Driving a truck for a junk food company is not for a trucking company. A trucking firm makes a its living shipping and moving things. Pepsi is a company who's profits have little or nothing to do with moving their products around and is centered in this case in producing and distrubuting junk food; a very profitable business with very little positive consumer relations of late. So burning some money on 21 green EV trucks is called public relations Pepsi is green! Cool EV trucks!

at least there's some schlub waxing and cleaning the glass so you can drink water from a bottle

What does "fully loaded" mean? How many pounds of payload for the long 400 mile haul?

Wow she even mentioned battery-powered Forklifts. Interesting new invention.

Tell us how many emissions it took to make that truck and battery?

Thede trucks have ZERO problems climbing up with full load, it's something never seen before ever

So the Pepsi plant needs its own electric service...then the concrete plant down the road needs a new substation for their concrete trucks....then the garbage truck terminal needs a new substation for their trucks.....then the LTL terminal needs a new substation for all their trucks.....then the nearby truck stop needs a substation to charge all their trucks.....it's the Oprah Winfrey show. You get a substation, and you get a substation. Everybody gets a substation. The substation fairy will leave a brand new substation under your pillow if you're a good boy and finish your vegetables.

Rock on Pepsi! cant wait to see where the future of your fleet goes!

I see these and the Frito Lay ones on the 5 all the time. At least a few times a week.

3:08 ya the battery does rip to 80 and 90 odd per cent fairly quick .but he is not telling you that the rest takes 3-5 hrs to peak finish

Amazing, the future is now, well done Pepsi and Tesla.

Wow 3MW. 😮 Imagine being a utility trying to balance loads like that for just one customer. Like a suburb's worth of power for one customer. A customer would want to set up grid frequency stabilisation systems with this kind of supply, like virtual power plant set up to offer back to the grid for a fee. In the long term, multiple customers would need to order that kind of power. I keep thinking 1.21 gigawatt!

Now i would only drink PepsiCo produkt, Goodbye Cola. PepsiCo are insane to see transporting Effeciency....

A diesel semi doing 50,000 miles/year should last 15 years. It will be interesting to see cost comparisons after that sort of use.

This needs quite significant infrastructure investment. That charger depot costs about $10 million including new sturdy electric supply lines. But as it is currently covered by 50% federal subsidies, the deal is easy to make. Did I understand correctly, that Pepsico or Tesla do not own the charging depot, but it is owned by a third party? It is also interesting to see, how fast the effective range is beaten out from those traction batteries when the charge cycles seem to be regularly 5% to 95%. That might end up spiking up Tesla's warranty costs, unless there is a clause for less than 18 months durability with 70% range left (or similar) on the contract.

Such a warm fuzzy story about the green future of junk food logistics.

Amazing!

is this guy rajiv Gomez ? Gangothiri after ganga or bhavani or cauvery or Sutlej ?

I see them on the 99 from time to time.

Why only one seat ? How do you train new drivers ? What about team drivers ?

I don’t know what a megawatt is. They should educate us more. I have an idea of a gallon but not a watt.

I see these everyday and they are freaking awesome.

Great video 👍

They had to bring in 3megawatts of power? So you have to bring in the equivalent to a towns worth of power just to support a few electric trucks and forklifts? How can that be efficient? Where does that power get sourced from? how much more emissions could be generated if from traditional gas or fossil fuel power plants?

So will they put TA/Petro, Loves, Pilot/Flying J out of business? I understand they will have super chargers for these vehicles over the road but I don’t see how this brings down cost. Trucks break and with breakdown being unknown how will the companies compensate for that? Still interesting truck though

750 kW charging is madness

Image how far this truck will go on a charge if they mated it with a trailer that have regen brakes in was peddle flow eqjipped.

Time will tell all. Let's see how the big scale goes. Hopefully good. Next thing will be Pepsi goes out of business. Activists will push to end soda products after renewable are used.

Great video ❤❤

I wish these people would have to add “at the site of use” to the zero emissions claim!

How big of an investment ,Congratulations Pepsi.

Has anyone try to drive one of those trucks in the mountains fully loaded

I’m waiting for Amazon to look into this for their “road brand image”

This is the last thing they need to be worried about. They sell sugar water and potatoes flavored salt.

Imagine coming to work and realizing you forgot to charge your truck

If it's only half electric what is it's other form of propulsion, diesel?

I want to see the power bill for that operation

8:30 “I Grew Up On This Truck,” He Says. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!?!?!?!?!? The Truck Hasn’t Even Been Out For A Year!!!!!

Hello Autoselectronics; yes potentially one $200,000 charger could serve more than one Tesla Semi; but there are two problems. #1. If you attempt to share it at the same time; then the charge time doubles because you are splitting the power. #2 1 Truck =12 Ys, 2 trucks 24 Ys etc. Not many local grids can charge 12 or 24 Ys at once. Even in industrial areas with heavy duty grids you can't do more than a couple Semi's at once. So you have to schedule them one after the other. That could cause a line and delays; or it could mean you are constantly charging losing potential billing hours. Pepsi unlike a trucking company could possibly charge a number of trucks during the night; a trucking company has keep on trucking 24 hours.

i love how they consider 400 miles long range. Id love to see them somehow charge up in less than 3 hours on random chargers on the road. I doubt they have enough fast chargers anywhere to charge these trucks

Would like to see it hauling 46,000 lbs. I'm really do, just to see how it moves

Lots of wasted money on just a soda bottling plant.. Although I'm glad this is possible in transportation.

I will be surprised if the Tesla semi is taken up in large numbers so early on with the mega expensive dedicated charging infrastructure yet to be built. But then again electric cars surprised me with a rapid uptake that was not expected. A three litre turbo diesel six cylinder engine powered battery Hybrid semi-trailer that uses 50 to 60% less fuel than a current semi so it would basically get at least double the range of a current semi using the same sized fuel tanks while putting out massively reduced emissions compared to a current semi-trailer makes sense. Also using the current large truck fueling infrastructure makes more sense to me than building expensive dedicated chargers in the middle of nowhere but then again I designed one and could be biased. I always thought short and medium haul transport suited 100% electric vehicle's with diesel battery hybrids for the extremely long haul stuff. People might not want to wait for the charging infrastructure for electric trucks to be built in suitable locations. California sets the trends but does not run the rest of the world so it's stance on certain issues can be taken with a grain of salt. We will see what the future holds when it comes to emmisions and transport. Elon is currently the richest man in world for a reason so nothing would surprise me. 😎👍

Yes they in California they not allowed any diesel motors in the state

They good for local trucks

Have they said what the payload capacity is yet? More than a year later and no one seems to know.

10:00 Elon punching the air seeing that BYD picker

Next time I see a driver on the 99 I’ll ask him for his REAL experience

Cool

I spent a short time in trucking and one thing I don't hear in these salespitches is payload capacity. Obviously these trucks require very heavy batteries which takes up VALUABLE payload space which isn't emphasized here. I feel like we're being duped with these toys. Range means nothing if you can't haul as much product. Less product demolishes fuel efficiency

The reason that diesel itself doesn't catch fire is it is not flamable at normal temprature and pressure. it isn't any more flamable than your cooking oil which usually can be used in place of diesel. A lithium battery can catch fire doing nothing. As for this italian accident - lets find the link; because diesel on a road shouldn't be able to catch fire; Perhaps it was gasoline. The mechanics of "two trucks crashing" means only one would need to have gasoline or another ignitable fuel on board. There are some diesel engine fires. diesel will burn under pressure, but all diesels have a fuel cut off to stop fuel going to the engine which puts out the fire. These are always due to improper use of the engine; so on a rare occasion some bad driver will not be in the truck when the first starts; and the fire can keep going. I am talking two trucks under proper operation by licensed drivers - a lithium truck can catch on fire and not be put out. A Diesel will not catch fire.

0:49, the guy driving in the center of the vehicle, crazy

why don't you put solar panels on top of the trailers?

10:00 a BYD vehicle there, a Chinese EV company

Very essential Eco friendly

Wait, so they need to unload every time they need to charge? I guess for now, EV trucks are limited to specific tasks, not bad since most are not so demanding, although city trucks is what we need more than semi trucks.

SO IS THE PRICE OF THE PEPSI PRODUCTS GOING TO BE CHEAPER SINCE YOU ARE SAVING SO MUCH MONEY ON FUEL?

How much is the government giving Pepsi to do this?

lets see how long they last

nice

Can we all agree that corporate speak needs to go.

Tesla Semi Electric Power Units are “Special”: GVW of 82,000lbs. When are NON Electric Power Units going to be Uprated to 82,000lbs as well? How well are the Batteries going to hold up in Severe Extremes of Hot and Cold Weather?

Wait till they will have to replace the batteries and the power bill goes up. How efficient will that be?

Good initiative, still not drinking Pepsi though...

I’d be scared stiff if I could throw my head out when backing up

Nice

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