The Tesla Tractor is real

**Desertnate** · 01-10-2019, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by Eldorado2k

Who’s “he”?

Probably Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla...and the Boring Company, Space X, etc...

Originally Posted by chet31

With the cars, they have automated battery swap stations. You're low on juice, you drive to a station over over a pad covering an underground mechanism. The mechanism pulls your low battery out and replaces it with a charged battery. You drive off with a freshly charged battery, your low battery starts being charged for the next person. Supposedly happens faster than it takes to fill your car with gas. I would think they would do the same thing with these trucks.
Battery Swap Event | Tesla

If they mount the battery packs low on the sides of the truck frame similar to where the gas tanks sit today, I bet it would be even easier/faster that what is required for a car.

**Eldorado2k** · 01-10-2019, 09:26 AM

Originally Posted by Desertnate

Probably Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla...and the Boring Company, Space X, etc...

So he does all the work by himself? Seems like the people at Tesla are the most under appreciated employees on earth.

**Bruno Soares** · 01-10-2019, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by minerigger

I don’t care what engineers say, weight matters when you hit a hill. Electric or not I don’t seen them maintaining highway speed uphill. The annoying fart sounds is only the guys who put bigger exhaust on the truck and run a full straight pipe. It’s like a Cummins driver in a pickup lol

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Tesla says that under full load these trucks will be able to maintain uphill speeds of 65mph. According to them, other trucks are capable of a max of 45mph. I guess we'll have to wait and see if this is all true.

**Desertnate** · 01-10-2019, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by Eldorado2k

So he does all the work by himself? Seems like the people at Tesla are the most under appreciated employees on earth.

By all accounts most of the companies successes were his ideas and in the early days he did invest quite a bit of money to get things going. As CEO it's his company to run and he sets the vision, direction, and directs how the company is run. Prior to his arrival they were a shadow of the company they are today. I do think Tesla employees are under appreciated from the standpoint they have found ways to make some of Elon's wild ideas actually become a reality. I do think Elon would be more successful at Tesla if he could find a few experienced auto industy execs willing to work with him. It might have saved him some of the issues they've faced in the early production stages of each model. The problem is most likely finding experience auto industry leaders willing to adapt to the unconventional Tesla ways.

**Eldorado2k** · 01-10-2019, 09:59 AM

I have nothing against that man or the vehicles that company produces, I just wish he wouldn’t have named it Tesla. Nikola Tesla’s work and inventions have been raped and discredited enough throughout history, and here we go again with this car company using his name for monetary gain as if its so trendy... People seem to love him so much he should just name it Elon. I wonder what kind of effect that would have..

**Desertnate** · 01-10-2019, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Eldorado2k

I have nothing against that man or the vehicles that company produces, I just wish he wouldn’t have named it Tesla. Nikola Tesla’s work and inventions have been raped and discredited enough throughout history, and here we go again with this car company using his name for monetary gain as if its so trendy... People seem to love him so much he should just name it Elon. I wonder what kind of effect that would have..

He didn't found the company and came in later so the company brand had already established itself. Since Tesla is now a globally known brand and has been from quite some time, re-branding would be a bad idea. It would be like renaming Coke, Apple or Amazon.

**Eldorado2k** · 01-10-2019, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Desertnate

He didn't found the company and came in later so the company brand had already established itself. Since Tesla is now a globally known brand and has been from quite some time, re-branding would be a bad idea. It would be like renaming Coke, Apple or Amazon.

I wasn’t aware of that... So it really isn’t his birth child after all? That makes the whole “worship” even worse.

lol. j/k

**fly07sti** · 01-10-2019, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Shower

where exactly this happens btw?

Oakland, California

**dcjredline** · 01-10-2019, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by Eldorado2k

So he does all the work by himself? Seems like the people at Tesla are the most under appreciated employees on earth.

Yeah, lets give everyone a participation trophy. They do a job they get a check. Would you be happier if I found the names of every employee and gave them each credit for their part? The CEO is the "face" of the company so I just used him to simplify things. LOL OMG take it easy

**Eldorado2k** · 01-10-2019, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by dcjredline

Yeah, lets give everyone a participation trophy. They do a job they get a check. Would you be happier if I found the names of every employee and gave them each credit for their part? The CEO is the "face" of the company so I just used him to simplify things. LOL OMG take it easy

Just imagine if I said “I can’t wait till Mary Barra makes all of GM’s vehicles emission free and shows Tesla how electric cars are supposed to be made”... How dumb would that sound?