Profile For Michael J.

LOL Bruce, ya think? I'm guessing maybe by the 2100 year

Just for the sake of what is actually correct...

https://www.motor1.com/news/669135/tesla-model-y-worlds-best-selling-car-q1-2023/

They all laughed when he started talking about electric cars. Even just 3 years ago, he was still being laughed at...

You are VERY wrong about the electric trucks and where this is all going...

Yes, the costs of the trucks are much more up front, but the cost in savings on gas over 3 years time of use of the truck saves you $200k in fuel.

Focusing on the numbers right now is kind of lame because it's all going to drastically change. Once you have folks like Kenworth, Peterbuilt, etc...all following suit, just like Nissan, Ford, Chevy, etc... did for the cars, you have a much more competitive field and prices will change drastically in all verticals of this market.

The other thing you don't hear anyone talk about is how drastically things will change when they aren't getting all those taxes on fuel anymore at the pumps, they will have to shift those loses over to Electric consumption at charging stations, so the numbers you see for energy per watt kind of stuff will change drastically once that vertical is heavily regulated and taxed.

But to make statements like "by 2100" when they are actively making laws to move completely away from fossil fuels is a pretty ignorant statement. The environmental time bomb, if real, will speed up the process even more once folks pull their heads out of their asses and realize what they are saying very well could be true. Once more people wake up through education, it will accelerate even faster. The younger generations will only know green energy at one point.

The infrastructure isn't there for OTR but once they start making progress on it, it will unravel like dominoes, just like Fiber did throughout the country. If I was setting up shop right now, and buying new equipment, and was doing local routes, I would sincerely look into Tesla trucks for my fleet if the true fuel savings are there over a 3 year period like they claim. However, I did hear that the Frito Lays and Pepsi trucks that just recently started using Tesla semi's aren't getting the true mileage of 500 miles per charge like originally stated in sales pitches. From what I hear, it's more like 300 but I haven't read up on it in a bit so I don't know how accurate that is.

Once they get the battery life more practical and economical, and the infrastructure starts getting put in place for charging stations across the country for OTR, it will happen like dominoes.

They laughed and said the same thing about the cars...it's now the best selling car on the market, and it's only going to get better. If Musk is successful in getting Toyota, and all that cumulative technology and engineering that goes along with it, there will be no stopping him. Toyota is top notch in just about every category out there. It will be a sick merger and I hope it happens.

Just my thoughts..