2000-Hp Turbine-Powered Hybrid Electric Truck
Tesla has had a significant effect on the car world and anything about the firm seems to appear on blogs and news sites. The company is happy with this and hope it continues this way as they are and take to the Nikola One which is a Class 8 hybrid electric truck concept.
Tesla has had a significant effect on the car world and anything about the firm seems to appear on blogs and news sites. The company is happy with this and hope it continues this way as they are and take to the Nikola One which is a Class 8 hybrid electric truck concept.
In a change from the fully electric passenger car, this has a 400kW generator that the company claims can allow the vehicle to run on natural gas, diesel or gas. Power is sent from the generator to a 320kWh lithium-ion battery, and this is able to energize a total of six in-wheel motors, with every one of them capable of producing 335 hp meaning that there is a total output of 2,000 hp. Meritor is the suppliers of the all-wheel drive system and the vehicle also has three axles all with independent suspension.
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There is an autonomous fleet convoy function which means that the driver is able to lead a convoy of 5 tractor trailers, but this will only become a reality once regulators have passed the laws that will allow it to be legal to carry out this on-road operation. Nikola Motors have said that they think that operating costs will be between 20 and 30 cents per mile which are roughly half what it costs to run an existing diesel Class 8 truck.
Each truck will cost £375,000 and $1,500 will be accepted as a refundable reservation. Trucks should be on the road in under four years.
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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