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Tesla’s Semi-Truck Would Require Energy Of 4,000 Homes To Recharge<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Elon Musk\u2019s reliance on shock-and-awe tactics and unjustifiably lofty performance projections is creating serious problems for the so-called visionary as a growing number of experts have come forward to explain that many of his claims would defy the laws of physics.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest group to call bulls— is Aurora Energy Research, a European consultancy which estimated that Tesla\u2019s electric haulage truck will require the same energy as up to 4,000 homes to recharge \u2013 a stunning claim that would seem to raise serious questions about the projects viability, according to the Financial Times.<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to these scientists, modern battery technology is incapable of supporting anything close to the 30-minute charging time Musk has promised for the new Tesla semi-truck.<\/p>\n

The US electric carmaker unveiled a battery-powered truck earlier this month, promising haulage drivers they could add 400 miles of charge in as little as 30 minutes using a new \u201cmegacharger\u201d to be made by the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Feddersen, chief executive of Aurora Energy Research, a consultancy set up in 2013 by a group of Oxford university professors, said the power required for the megacharger to fill a battery in that amount of time would be 1,600 kilowatts.<\/p>\n

That is the equivalent of providing 3,000-4,000 \u201caverage\u201d houses, he told a London conference last week, 10 times as powerful as Tesla\u2019s current network of \u201csuperchargers\u201d for its electric cars.<\/strong> Tesla declined to comment on the calculations.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk, Tesla\u2019s chief executive, has previously said the megachargers would be solar-powered but the company has not confirmed whether they will also have a grid connection for when it is not sunny.<\/p>\n

Many of Tesla\u2019s current superchargers are powered in part by renewable energy. The company is also experimenting with storage batteries to ease demands on the grid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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