Tesla’s electric power for the truck and the use of electricity in heavy-duty transporting

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Tesla has made history, and build brand new concept for heavy-duty vehicles. In that vehicle is electric motors for driving the truck forward. Making of the electric truck is nothing that is made with passenger cars. The needed parts are of course bigger, but technology what is used is tested in many smaller vehicles. And the major problem of electricity usage in heavy transport systems is that the battery’s power would go down, and in the short term driving, there would be no time to recharge those batteries.

The electric system is very useful in heavy-duty vehicles because it can give also the trailer capacity to operate as the part of the pulling system. In normal vehicles, the wheels of the trailer are not connected to the motor system, and that makes this kind of heavy-duty vehicles to operate on bad roads. If the trailer’s wheels are used in driving sequences, and they are equipped with motors, that would make the trailer more capacities than before.

There are two ways to make the truck with electric motors. One is to use the pure electric system, but that would need recharge stations. But in this case, the normal power voltage cable could give the needed electricity for that system. Another is to use the diesel-electric system, where the diesel motor would use generators, and the electric power would be transfer to the electric motors, what is installed in every wheel under this vehicle. This would give the car or truck extreme high speed, and the limit of the speed is the endurance of electric motors. That kind of truck can, in theory, leave even sport scars behind them.

The electric driving system can be used selectively. When the batteries are low, the computer would activate the diesel-system. And in the short drive, there could be used only electricity. This means that the tank of the vehicle must not fill at all if there would be found recharge points on the road. In this system is able to use solar panels for increasing the capacity of the battery. Those diesel motors are meant to use only in the forests, where will not found the recharge points. But this kind of vehicles can use also normal power plugs to reload their batteries. So if this project would be the success, the heavy transportation would be more economical and kindly for the environment than ever before.

Sources:

https://electrek.co/guides/tesla-semi/

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