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.
Supply-chain problems have caused Tesla to once again push out its estimated date for production of its battery-electric Class 8 Semi truck.
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.
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.
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.
Seven months after we were teased with a ghostly image of Tesla's ersatz electric semi, we still don't know anything substantive about it. Maybe that's all we need to know, says Jim Park in his On the Road blog.
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