Tesla Semi

Another day, another record order for Tesla Semi. Tesla’s new electric truck division just received a pre-order of 125 semi trucks from delivery giant UPS.
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The performance specs that Tesla announced for its electric semi truck last month were unbelievable for some.

But now a transporter that participated in the Tesla Semi test program confirmed that those specs are actually real – or at least most of them.
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After Tesla started taking reservations for its new electric truck, a surprising number of those pre-orders were coming from Canada.

Now we learn that fleet operators and truck drivers in Ontario, Canada’s biggest province, are going to have access to an important incentive.
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Tesla Semi keeps adding to its backlog of electric orders. After adding over 100 trucks last week, this week it receives 100 reservations from a single company: PepsiCo.
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Aside from press images, our only good look at Tesla Semi prototypes was under some pretty dark mood lighting at the launch event.

But now some spy footage shows a Tesla Semi prototype driving in broad daylight – giving us probably the best look at the electric truck.
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Tesla keeps receiving more orders for its new electric semi trucks.

After Budweiser’s parent company placed a large 40-truck order yesterday, we now learn that Sysco beat them with 10 more Tesla Semi trucks on the same day.
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The list of companies placing orders for Tesla Semi electric trucks keeps growing weeks after the unveiling event last month.

Now Anheuser-Busch, the brewer behind Budweiser, announced that it ordered 40 Tesla Semi trucks.
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The list of companies placing orders for Tesla Semi electric trucks is still growing 2 weeks after the unveiling event.

Now logistics giant DHL gives its thumb up with an order of 10 trucks – bringing the reported total orders to around 200 Tesla Semi trucks.
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Earlier this month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage to present the company’s latest product, the Tesla Semi, an all-electric heavy-duty truck.

But now the executive leading the program, Jerome Guillen, gave his own presentation about the electric truck at a conference in Europe.
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While orders for the Tesla Semi electric truck are piling up, Tesla’s VP of Truck programs, Jerome Guillen, confirmed that Tesla will be its own first customer and that it will use the trucks to carry cargo between its factory in Fremont, California and its battery factory in Nevada.
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The new vehicles that Tesla unveiled last week featured some design details and technologies that we have seen before in Tesla’s vehicles, but it also featured some incremental improvements and apparent technological leaps that surprised us.

It opens up the question: are we going to see some of those developments in Tesla’s other vehicle lines?
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After focusing on the cost of operation instead of the purchase price during the unveiling event last week, Tesla has now released what it refers to as the “expected price” of the Tesla Semi electric trucks.
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Less than a week after Tesla launched its all-electric heavy-duty truck program, the list of companies placing orders for Tesla Semi is rapidly growing.
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Data is now confirming what most people likely suspected, that Tesla’s next-gen Roadster stole the show from the company’s electric truck at the new vehicle’s own launch event.
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Tesla’s new electric semi truck is already finding buyers. Walmart, along with several other companies, confirmed having ordered Tesla Semi trucks following the unveiling yesterday.
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I’d argue that leading up to the event, CEO Elon Musk was hyping the Tesla electric truck unveiling even more than your average Tesla event, which led us to set some crazy high expectations for the truck.

Surprisingly, Tesla actually met most of our expectations and they even crushed a few of them. Here’s our quick recap of the event.
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Tesla is set to unveil its new electric semi truck this evening. The event kicks off at 8PM PT (11PM ET – 4AM UTC) and we’ll have in-depth coverage of everything Tesla announces. Head below for our full live blog of the event…

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Tesla is unveiling its electric semi truck today with a live feed of the event starting at 8PM PT (11PM ET – 4AM UTC). We will be covering the event live, but in the meantime, you can join us for a live podcast about the event.
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Tesla is set to unveil its electric semi truck this week and as usual, the expectations are high. CEO Elon Musk did nothing to manage those expectations yesterday when he went as far as saying that the unveil will “blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension.”

While it may sound just like a simple exaggeration, it’s only the latest in a series of statements hyping the upcoming electric truck.

Now we try to set those expectations and see why Musk seems so confident. A hint: it’s all about the economics. 
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Tesla sent out the invites to its ‘Tesla Semi’ unveiling event in Hawthorne on November 16 and with the invites, it released a new teaser image. 
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