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What I'm curious about, is if the republic will still stand by 2024-25 when these start shipping en-masse.
 

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They have to take breaks during the day anyhow.

-Crissa
That's why truckers, so am I, are excited when Tesla floated the idea of battery exchange in ten minutes flat. It is an immediate solution to range issue with this minimal interruption in this business where revenue is generated only when the tires are rolling.
 


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NOBODY ASKED YOU, JER!!! Showoff.
Sorry, it's a sensitive subject, and I hate myself for waiting and taking a few days to think about placing the order. Finally, I woke up one morning, and asked myself "What the hell am I waiting for?!?!!?! It's the beyond perfect truck, at a reasonable price. That's how I wound up at 216,000.

Hey, does this shirt make me look envious?
:rolleyes:
I suppose you have a grandson who'll continue to hold the reservation for you... :devilish::p
 
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That's why truckers, so am I, are excited when Tesla floated the idea of battery exchange in ten minutes flat. It is an immediate solution to range issue with this minimal interruption in this business where revenue is generated only when the tires are rolling.
The break is required 30 minutes so the battery swap is unnecessary.

-Crissa
 

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NOBODY ASKED YOU, JER!!! Showoff.
Sorry, it's a sensitive subject, and I hate myself for waiting and taking a few days to think about placing the order. Finally, I woke up one morning, and asked myself "What the hell am I waiting for?!?!!?! It's the beyond perfect truck, at a reasonable price. That's how I wound up at 216,000.

Hey, does this shirt make me look envious?

LOL. For once I took a logical approach and looked at it as "do I really want to be at the back of the line" and "well I have certainly blown $100 if far worse and less rewarding ways". [Submit] then smiled.
 


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I've read about that as well.
The fact of the matter is that most people just dont drive that far every day, and if they do, EVs arent for them.

Who knows, in 25 years, we may have anti-matter reactor powered gravity wave amplifier drives like Bob Lazar has been talking about for 35 years.
I drove my Tesla Model Y 1000 miles in a day. Twice. Portland to LA. and then back a week later. I've made the same drive in an ICE several times. Driving the Tesla added about 2.5 hours on the way down and about 4 hours on the way back. But it was a much more enjoyable drive both ways. Autopilot for the win. And the forced breaks every couple hours wasn't so bad either.
 

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I drove my Tesla Model Y 1000 miles in a day. Twice. Portland to LA. and then back a week later. I've made the same drive in an ICE several times. Driving the Tesla added about 2.5 hours on the way down and about 4 hours on the way back. But it was a much more enjoyable drive both ways. Autopilot for the win. And the forced breaks every couple hours wasn't so bad either.
Eugene to Sacramento twice in the last year, about the same time As ICE. More stops faster driving.
 

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The break is required 30 minutes so the battery swap is unnecessary.

-Crissa
Break is required, but fueling time cannot overlap with break time. When you are fueling you are considered working and its not a break.

I assume charging will fall under the same DOT rule.
 

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Break is required, but fueling time cannot overlap with break time. When you are fueling you are considered working and its not a break.

I assume charging will fall under the same DOT rule.
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