California Fleets, Buy Your New Nikola Trucks Today

[Electric Chicken]

It is not everywhere. If you want to charge a truck or car, can you just pull over to the next corner store to do it yet? I can't even count the amount of gas stations within walking distance of me (2 miles) that have both gas and diesel.

There was a time when gas stations weren't on every corner.

Infrastructure will come. It's already exploded for Teslas.

 

[Rigjockey]

From what I have heard here, charging an electric car is like adding another house to the electric grid.
I am not sure that the grid and power generation is ready for every home have two electric cars in their driveway and the capability to charge them.

 

[Electric Chicken]

From what I have heard here, charging an electric car is like adding another house to the electric grid.
I am not sure that the grid and power generation is ready for every home have two electric cars in their driveway and the capability to charge them.

Yeah it's not like the world can handle a 100% changeover tomorrow, but we should have a healthy mix.

These things will be great for dense population short work.

 

[389 Hood]

And just like an ICE, diesel, they figure a way to throttle them back when leaving the starting line. They way you won't be competing with the cars and tearing the tires off the trucks.

 

[krelithous]

There was a time when gas stations weren't on every corner.

Infrastructure will come. It's already exploded for Teslas.

quicker charge times are needed also. 45 mins to an hr to charge a dead tesla is insanity

 

[Duck]

Electricity is everywhere as well...

Only one entity owns the wires to your house.

 

[Duck]

And just like an ICE, diesel, they figure a way to throttle them back when leaving the starting line. They way you won't be competing with the cars and tearing the tires off the trucks.

Same thing with disc brakes on trucks. Freight shifting is a problem. In vans & reefers, there is no securement.

 

[389 Hood]

Same thing with disc brakes on trucks. Freight shifting is a problem. In vans & reefers, there is no securement.

Wouldn't that depend on the freight being transported, whether or not it was secured? I haveta ask. I only hauled a box one time.

 

[Duck]

Wouldn't that depend on the freight being transported, whether or not it was secured? I haveta ask. I only hauled a box one time.

They just run everything in on pallets, sometimes double stacked, and then they close the doors.

Friction load locks can hold a few boxes from falling off the rear-most pallets but that's about it.

E-tracks and straps will do a better job of that, but they're still not gonna do a damn thing to hold back the mass of an entire load trying to shift.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Most of the stuff I drag around is drop and hook presealed so I don't actually know what's in there or how it's in there.

The BOL may say it's 459 cases of 2847383929 but it could also just be 20 tons of pot.

 

[OldskoolironNwv]

My engine is from 1986 that’s in my 95 W900L. It too was 315 originally, CPL 0749.

I built it back to CPL 625 and then some as a figure of speech.

It seems to handle my work loads fine here all through the Appalachain areas, and I’m not always at 80,000….

 

[OldskoolironNwv]

It doesn't even have to be eco-junk. The new regular trucks seem to be on a hook more than under their own power. I refused the '24 hood the boss is trying to pass onto me. I told him I didn't want to spend my night sitting on the side of I-95 with a load of fuel behind me.

My bucket of bolts dragging a 2020 389 with 150,00 miles from Texas to WV, just to get it in a shop….

 

[Electric Chicken]

My engine is from 1986 that’s in my 95 W900L. It too was 315 originally, CPL 0749.

I built it back to CPL 625 and then some as a figure of speech.

It seems to handle my work loads fine here all through the Appalachain areas, and I’m not always at 80,000….


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I never did understand how CPLs work. Mine has an 838 in it.

 

[Mike]

I said a real truck.

A Fleet spec Detroit 60, Cummins ISX or Cat 3406 from before 2007 would eat any stock diesel built after 2010.

Unless you're a smart-ass & say put it up against a locomotive engine..

Absolutely not true. My current 500hp motor will pull just as well, possibly out pull any other 500hp engine I have owned or driven in the past.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Absolutely not true. My current 500hp motor will pull just as well, possibly out pull any other 500hp engine I have owned or driven in the past.

What rear axle ratios are in that thing and what RPMs do you turn at 65?

Probably asked and answered but my memory is shot.

 

[Mike]

What rear axle ratios are in that thing and what RPMs do you turn at 65?

Probably asked and answered but my memory is shot.

285 gears
About 1225 rpm at 65mph

If I bought it today, I would have went with taller gears. 264 wasn’t an option due to lack of availability. I would probably push for even taller now that I have had the truck for a while.

 

[Electric Chicken]

285 gears
About 1225 rpm at 65mph

If I bought it today, I would have went with taller gears. 264 wasn’t an option due to lack of availability. I would probably push for even taller now that I have had the truck for a while.

1.88 would be good. Cruise at 65 on lowpros turning a cool 800rpm.

 

[Mike]

There was a time when gas stations weren't on every corner.

Infrastructure will come. It's already exploded for Teslas.

Massive resistance comes with every level of progression.

Those that held on to horses swore the gas engine would never replace them.

With diesel, diesel itself was resisted in trucks, but quickly proved itself to be the better option over gas for heavy vehicles.

Those that held on to mechanical diesel engines revolted against electronically controlled diesel engines. After the bugs were worked out, we ended up with better diesel engines that last much longer. And I know, after reading this, there will be “that guy” who swears he could easily get 3 million miles out of a mechanical diesel, and probably did it with 20 trucks. Yep, 60 million miles of driving under his belt before the age of 30.

New technology is coming. There will be bugs. Those bugs will be worked out. Until then, many will resist for as long as possible. Some will refuse to move forward and accept it.

 

[Mike]

1.88 would be good. Cruise at 65 on lowpros turning a cool 800rpm.

Direct drive, it’s already out there. Not 1.88 specifically, but below 2.

Cruise rpm has already been pushed below 1000.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Direct drive, it’s already out there. Not 1.88 specifically, but below 2.

Cruise rpm has already been pushed below 1000.

I know my truck will still pull around 800-900 but the moment it gets below that it needs to downshift. It would probably stay there more if it didn't have so much drag.

It's pretty nice on flat ground. You don't need much to stay moving.