Tesla將成為自己Semi卡車的第一位客戶 - 開車

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Tesla to be its own first electric semi truck customer with cargo route
between Fremont and Gigafactory 1

While orders for the Tesla Semi electric truck are piling up, Tesla’s VP of
Truck programs, Jerome Guillen, confirmed that Tesla will be its own first
customer and that it will use the trucks to carry cargo between its factory
in Fremont, California and its battery factory in Nevada.

Tesla的卡車項目VP, Jerome Guillen, 證實Tesla將會是自己Semi卡車的第一位客戶
Semi卡車將被用來運送貨物，路線是Fremont工廠與電池工廠之間。

Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously referred to the automaker’s logistic costs to
carry cargo between the two locations as “gigantic”.

Elon Musk以前曾經說過，這兩間工廠之間的物流成本非常的巨大。

He even suggested that they are considering building a hyperloop system for
cargo with his Boring Company startup in order to address the issue.

他甚至建議過要考慮利用他的挖洞公司建造一個hyperloop系統來解決這問題。

During a presentation about the new Tesla Semi at the annual conference of
Transport and Logistics in the Netherlands today, Tesla VP of Truck programs
Jerome Guillen confirmed that they will first address the problem by using
their electric semi trucks.

He said:

“Tesla will be the first customer for the truck. We will use our own truck
to carry cargo in the US between our different facilities. We have an
assembly facility in California, the Gigafactory in Nevada, so we will use
our trucks to carry things in-between.”

Tesla卡車項目VP, Jerome Guillen說：

"Tesla將成為這輛卡車的第一位客戶。
我們會利用我們的卡車來運送在美國的兩個工廠之間的貨物。
我們有一個在加州的裝配工廠，一個在內華達州的電池工廠，
所以我們會使用我們的卡車在他們之間來運送貨物。

It just so happens that the route between the two factories is almost the
perfect example of the capabilities of the semi truck that Tesla claimed
during its presentation last week.

剛好這兩間工廠之間的距離是上週發表會演講時說的完美例子。

The most important claim was a range of 500 miles for a capacity to bring a
full load to a destination 250 miles away, which represents 80% of the market
according to Tesla, and then bring a load back to the original location on
the same charge.

其中最重要的一個宣稱是有著500miles的續航里程，可以在滿載的狀況下到達250miles
外的目的地，然後回到出發點，這可以涵括80%的市場需求，並且是在同一次充電中做到。

According to Google Maps, the shortest route between Tesla Fremont and Tesla
Gigafactory 1 is exactly 258 miles:

根據Google地圖顯示，這兩間工廠的最短距離剛好是258miles。

It should be an excellent showcase of the capabilities of the Tesla Semi and
if Tesla truly achieves the cost of operation savings that they claimed, they
should achieve some important logistic cost savings.

這應該是Tesla Semi功能的一個很好的展示，如果Tesla真的做到了節省那麼多他們
所宣示的營運成本的話，他們應該可以在物流這件事情上省下不少錢。

Interestingly, Tesla requested permission to test electric truck prototypes
for platooning and self-driving in Nevada and California earlier this year.

At the Tesla Semi unveiling last week, Tesla confirmed that they had a
platooning technology to reduce the cost of operation to $0.85 per miles with
a three-truck convoy:

It wouldn’t be surprising that they requested to test the vehicles in those
two states exactly for that route that Guillen now confirms will be one of
the first routes to see Tesla’s new semi trucks.

The landscape that they used to showcase the convoy technology in a video
presentation even looks like the terrain around the route between Fremont and
Reno/Sparks, where Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 is located:

We already speculated that Tesla is likely going to be its best own customer
for the program. In California, Tesla operates its own truck fleet of about
100 trucks, according to public documents. It would make sense for the
company to update its fleet with its own trucks.

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自己做的卡車自己先用，這很Tesla。

像Model 3也是先交車給自己的員工，一方面是一種展示、一方面也是一種實地測試

而Semi卡車先給自己用不但能展示給客戶看，也能節省物流成本

最重要的是能知道實際開上路後會不會有什麼樣的問題。

就像Semi卡車發布後，有些看過影片跟實車照片的卡車司機就很懷疑沒有鏡子會不會有

視線死角？有些卡車甚至裝了大大小小超過10面後照鏡來避免死角問題發生。

諸如此類的問題可能要每天長途開車才會發覺

恰好能藉此機會來進一步做測試。

只是不知道到底要多久之後才能看到Tesla Semi真的在加州公路上跑？

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