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Tesla's upcoming all-electric heavy-duty truck.

‘Tesla Semi’ is an heavy-duty all-electric truck program at Tesla led by Jerome Guillen, Tesla’s former Model S Program Director and VP of Vehicle Engineering. Before joining Tesla, Guillen was an executive at Daimler where he successfully led the development of the Cascadia truck program (picture on the right).

The vehicle was first announced in CEO Elon Musk’s’ ‘Master Plan Part Deux’. Here’s the relevant part of the ‘Master Plan‘:

“In addition to consumer vehicles, there are two other types of electric vehicle needed: heavy-duty trucks and high passenger-density urban transport. Both are in the early stages of development at Tesla and should be ready for unveiling next year. We believe the Tesla Semi will deliver a substantial reduction in the cost of cargo transport, while increasing safety and making it really fun to operate.”

It was officially unveiled on November 16, 2017. Here are all the details.

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Nikola Motor takes swipe at ‘Tesla Semi’, announces ‘working prototype’ unveil for December

Avatar for Fred Lambert Aug 2 2016 - 2:04 pm PT
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In a weird and clearly reactionary move after Elon Musk announced that Tesla will venture in the semi-truck business, electric truck startup Nikola Motor, which like Tesla borrowed its company name from Nikola Tesla, announced that it will unveil a working prototype of its first truck, the Nikola One, on December 2nd in Salt Lake City.
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Daimler unveils its first all-electric eTruck: 26 tonnes capacity, massive 212 kWh battery for ~125 miles of range [Gallery]

Avatar for Fred Lambert Jul 27 2016 - 9:36 am PT
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Today, Daimler unveiled its first all-electric truck – coincidently, only a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the electric automaker is currently working on its own vehicle in the space. While Musk doesn’t plan on unveiling his ‘Tesla Semi’ until next year, there’s no rush to beat Daimler to market since the German automaker doesn’t plan to bring its electric truck, called the eTruck, to production until 2020.
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Tesla tapped former Model S Program Director and Daimler’s Cascadia GM to lead ‘Tesla Semi’

Avatar for Fred Lambert Jul 21 2016 - 8:57 am PT
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As we reported yesterday, the news that Tesla is developing a semi truck set to be unveiled next year is probably the biggest surprise to come out of Elon Musk’s ‘Master Plan Part 2’.

When reading the plan and despite containing little details about the new division, I was already pretty excited at the prospect of an electric Tesla truck, but now that Musk confirmed that Jerome Guillen is in charge of the program, which he dubbed ‘Tesla Semi’, I’m even more excited.
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