this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2024
12 points (92.9% liked)

[Dormant] Electric Vehicles

3193 readers
1 users here now

We have moved to:

!electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

A community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, casteism, speciesism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No self-promotion.
  4. No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
  5. No trolling.
  6. Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Local German media are reporting that Musk mentioned at the event that Tesla is looking to build Tesla Semi at the factory:

“I think it makes sense to produce the Tesla Semi in Europe in Gigafactory Berlin.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Eideen@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I am surprise by the statement, since Telsa Semi is not optimised for EU regulation, especially length.

  • US: Semi-Trailers can be up to 21.34 meters long.
  • EU: Semi-Trailers can be up to 18.55 meters long.

Wikipedia Semi Trailer

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is the difference in length mainly due to the tractor, the trailer, or a bit of both?

[–] Omacitin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Wikipedia says Europe uses mainly the shorter cab-over-engine tractors in order to maximize trailer length while staying under the total length limit. They commonly pull standard ISO shipping containers, so in that case at least the difference is all in the tractor.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)