We know a little more now about the Tesla battery-electric Semi truck, as the first one is delivered to a customer — five years after its initial debut.
Just days before the first Tesla Semi battery-electric Class 8 truck is scheduled to be delivered to PepsiCo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the company had just completed a 500-mile drive with a fully loaded Tesla Semi.
The Frito-Lay plant in Modesto, California, and the PepsiCo beverages plant in Sacramento, are scheduled to get Tesla Semi battery-electric trucks delivered starting in December. For real this time.
Nearly five years after Elon Musk introduced his electric Class 8 Tesla Semi in a flashy launch event, Tesla has started taking deposits for the truck, at $20,000 each.
Supply-chain problems have caused Tesla to once again push out its estimated date for production of its battery-electric Class 8 Semi truck.
Is the humble, “outdated” North American trucking industry too tough a nut for our era’s greatest tech innovator to crack? Jack Roberts muses on the question in the Truck Tech blog.
Companies such as UPS and FritoLay will have to wait a little longer for their all-electric Tesla Semi Class 8 trucks, as a second-quarter earnings report pushed production out to 2022.
Former Daimler and Freightliner Class 8 development manager Jerome Guillen shifts from an automotive focus at Tesla to leading the Tesla Semi program.
Elon Musk says the Tesla Semi Class 8 electric tractor is ready to go into production later this year – but getting the needed batteries is a problem.
Pride Group Enterprises recently reserved 150 Tesla Electric Semis with the option to increase the order to 500 trucks.
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