A Tesla Semi delivering Tesla's could tap their batteries to increase range

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  1. 101101

    101101 Well-Known Member

    Tesla vehicles already have vehicle to grid which means they are already set up to share power. That suggests the Tesla Semi could tap their full batteries to help deliver them.
    Could simply ask customers if they are ok with tapping the battery to deliver the vehicle sooner and credit the difference to a Super charger. That way a Tesla Semi delivering 10 Model S/X could have an extra 600 miles or one megawatt to tap meaning less necessary trips to the mega charger. Also means Mega charger could charge up Semi and all he vehicles in about 1 hrs on the other side of a long trip but it increase to an extent the routes Tesla can take and really increase the utility of the truck early on. Really means Tesla now has a way to do 1200 mile.

    I find it laughable that Nikola Hydrogen truck started with claims of 1200 or 1400 miles ranges and now its down to 500-750 and when we get down to it its a hybrid because it has to have a huge electric battery for recuperative breaking just like a Mirai or can't compete. I wouldn't be surprised if they cancel the Nikola hydrogen truck because it ends up with sub 500 mile range of double the cost of the Cybertruck and much higher actual fuel costs even with ridiculous subsidies for the natural gas (which must be stopped) which will be the dirty source of the any allowed hydrogen when really states should just ban that- we're trying to get rid of natural gas not find trojan horse sources for it that actually use more of it and try to cut into local fresh water supplies.
     
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  3. As far as I have heard, a few days after that one guy said Teslas are set up for V2G another one inspected the components again and said there were diodes used in places that would make a "reverse" flow of power impossible.
     
  4. 101101

    101101 Well-Known Member

    No the guy that looked a the system was an electric engineer that works in the area and reverse engineered it. Sure there is software lock that makes skimming power the way he old pump scams used to work hard and certainly that is backed up by hardware components. But the V2G is there but would you want use it in cars that didn't yet have the million mile batteries? Yes for something like what we are talking about or for emergencies or for trying to jump another Tesla that had run out of power.
     

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