Reply to post: Re: Electricity vs Petrol/Diesel prices

Tesla reveals a less-long-legged truck, but a bigger reservation price

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Re: Electricity vs Petrol/Diesel prices

So what if the trucks need grid power? Using solar etc. offsets the energy use even if they aren't being directly charged by the sun. An electron is an electron. It doesn't matter where it came from.

Here in Australia, a large number of businesses, homes, farms, schools etc. have solar arrays that feed back into the grid. Of course those places aren't being powered by solar during the night, but they have offset an amount of energy during the day.

Don't forget that big battery array recently completed in SA to help with base load at different times of day.

I also really have to say that the cost for the trucks seems fairly reasonable in comparison to the cost of a new diesel truck, and have to agree with Tesla that in many cases the price difference in energy makes them an economical choice, especially when it comes to the vast number of trucks active in and around cities which are forced to spend large amounts of time in traffic, including stopped at traffic lights wasting fuel idling.

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