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Elon Musk’s Impossible Electric Truck Is Getting the Last Laugh
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s Impossible Electric Truck Is Getting the Last Laugh

[ad_1] Batteries as heavy as an elephant are not ideal for long-haul trucking, but non-diesel eighteen-wheelers may have found a niche. When Elon Musk announced plans to upend the long-haul trucking industry five years ago, it was hard to suppress the urge to laugh. Well before he was developing flamethrowers and humanoid robots, and haggling with Stephen King over Twitter subscription fees, the announcement of the Semi long-distance truck saw the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer picking a fight not just with the established auto industry, but with basic economics and physics. Batteries have many virtues, but density isn't one of them. That's not a problem for passenger cars, but once you get into truly power-hungry applications like long-distance trucking, shipping and aviatio...
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Tesla hoping its electric Semi will be heavy duty ‘game changer’
2Dec By adminNo Comments
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Tesla hoping its electric Semi will be heavy duty ‘game changer’

[ad_1] US automaker Tesla on Thursday delivered its first battery-powered heavy duty truck, dubbed "Semi," and built to tackle long hauls with the handling of a sporty sedan. US automaker Tesla on Thursday delivered its first battery-powered heavy duty truck, dubbed "Semi," and built to tackle long hauls with the handling of a sporty sedan."That thing looks like it came from the future," Telsa chief Elon Musk said while handing over the keys to PepsiCo executives at the vehicle maker's Nevada manufacturing plant. With its sleek design, the Semi has been highly anticipated since Musk unveiled a prototype in 2017, but the launch of full-scale production was delayed well past the initial 2019 expectation. "The sheer amount of drama between five years ago and now is insane," Musk told a s...
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Tesla Hands Over First ‘Badass’ Big Rig Semis to PepsiCo
2Dec By adminNo Comments
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Tesla Hands Over First ‘Badass’ Big Rig Semis to PepsiCo

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. handed over the first of its electric Semi trucks, a milestone for the automaker more than five years after it unveiled the vehicle. Tesla Inc. handed over the first of its electric Semi trucks, a milestone for the automaker more than five years after it unveiled the vehicle. “If you want the most badass rig on the road, this is it,” Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said Thursday at Tesla's battery factory near Reno, Nevada. He capped off the delivery event with a handover of key cards to two PepsiCo Inc. executives. While passenger cars get most of the buzz, electrifying big commercial vehicles is crucial to transitioning to more sustainable transportation. Tesla estimates that while combination trucks are just 1% of the US vehicle fleet, they account for 20% ...
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Tesla Semi Looks Like a Bidenmobile Spurred by the Climate Bill
12Oct By adminNo Comments
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Tesla Semi Looks Like a Bidenmobile Spurred by the Climate Bill

[ad_1] The Tesla Semi truck was on the back burner until the president’s climate bill passed. This much is clear: Tesla is going to start delivering Semi trucks on Dec. 1, a full five years after Elon Musk started taking orders for them. The first ones are going to PepsiCo, which will put them to work at a Frito-Lay facility in Modesto, California, and a beverages plant in Sacramento. From there, details are fuzzy for a product the world has known about since 2017. Specifications? “500 mile range & super fun to drive,” Musk tweeted last week. There isn't a whole lot more information on Tesla's website, aside from a zero-to-60 acceleration time, which doesn't rank particularly high on truckers' priority list. Braking distance, for example, is far more important than beating ...
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Tesla Plans to Deliver Trucks to Pepsi 5 Years After Unveiling
7Oct By adminNo Comments
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Tesla Plans to Deliver Trucks to Pepsi 5 Years After Unveiling

[ad_1] Tesla will deliver its first Semi trucks to PepsiCo Inc. five years after Elon Musk showed off prototypes. Tesla Inc. will deliver its first Semi trucks to PepsiCo Inc. five years after Elon Musk showed off prototypes and began taking deposits for the electric big rigs. The carmaker will hand over Semis to PepsiCo on Dec. 1, Musk tweeted Thursday. The food and beverage giant has said it's reserved 100 of the trucks and expects to deploy an initial 15 by the end of the year. Musk said when Tesla first unveiled the Semi in November 2017 that it would go into production two years later. While would-be customers including Walmart Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev SA put down deposits, the automaker ended up prioritizing output of Model 3 sedans and Model Y sport utility vehicles f...
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