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Is the humble, “outdated” North American trucking industry too tough a nut for our era’s greatest tech innovator to crack?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.
After recently announcing a $3.5 billion investment over the next five years to generate growth in its business, Walmart also revealed it has tripled it reservations of the all-electric Tesla Semi truck.
Tesla shares topped $1,000 for the first time on June 10, as reports surfaced that the company is pushing to ramp up production of its electric heavy-duty Semi truck.
Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk revealed during a first-quarter earnings call that the company’s first step into the Class 8 market, the electric Semi, will once again be delayed, this time into 2021.
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