. They hoped to bring about better and faster solutions for the electric long haul trucking industry. Data from the 10 fleet depots that participated has been used to track key metrics of the trucks and the chargers, and the experiment produced valuable data.Since September 11, Run on Less — Electric Depot data has been collected from 22 trucks operating out of 10 fleet depots. “The data collection is going well.
The Tesla Semis at PepsiCo’s Sacramento Beverages depot have completed 384 miles on a single charge and 806 miles in a single 24-hour day, enabled by fast 750 kW charging. There is better efficiency, including optimizing regenerative braking and return-to-base charging during single driver shifts. This has occurred consistently at OK Produce, Penske, Performance Team, PepsiCo, and Schneider.