Tesla Semi

Tesla Semi has the potential to be a revolutionary product in the trucking industry and the automaker is seeking feedback from customers before bringing the vehicle to market.

Now, the company is giving an electric semi truck test drive to an important new customer.
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Tesla Semi, the automaker’s electric truck, is supposed to go into production next year and now it secures another order from a major company.
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Tesla extended the deadline to order Model 3 and get a delivery by the end of the year in order to get the full federal tax credit for electric vehicles.

CEO Elon Musk says that they achieved that by “acquiring trucking capacity”.
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There’s currently a race to bring electric trucks to market and change the economics in the trucking industry while removing its reliance on fossil fuels. Tesla has the most aggressive plan to electrify the market with the Tesla Semi, but Daimler Trucks, one of the largest incumbents, is not worried about it.

The CEO throws some cold water on Tesla’s electric truck project and says that Daimler will come out on top.
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Tesla Semi is technically the next vehicle program that the automaker aims to bring to production based on the company’s own timeline.

But now a reservation holder says that they are expecting deliveries in 2020 – a year after Tesla’s targeted start of production.
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Tesla has filed a patent application for its own new design of an automatic tire inflation system, which appears to be geared for the Tesla Semi electric truck.
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Out of all the impressive features of the Tesla Semi, one that hasn’t been talked about much is a drivetrain guaranteed to last 1 million miles.

This a goal that Tesla has had for a long time for its passenger cars too and now Tesla Semi could be clearing a path for it.
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Some petrolheads don’t like electric cars because they don’t have the roar of an engine burning fossil fuel. EVs are definitely quieter but they still have a sound and I think some of them are pretty cool.

After watching this new video, now I think the Tesla Semi electric truck prototype accelerating with a trailer is one of the coolest EV sounds yet.
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Tesla is currently being sued by Nikola Motors for $2 billion over the design of the Tesla Semi, but the automaker has now obtained its own design patents for the electric truck – significantly weakening Nikola’s case.
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Tesla Semi was announced to go into production in 2019 when it was officially unveiled in 2017.

A Tesla investor now says that they were told in a Gigafactory 1 tour that “earnest” production would only start by 2020.

Some media are framing it as a delay, but Tesla says that the plan hasn’t changed.
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A Tesla Semi prototype has been driving around the country to apparently visit companies who have reserved the electric truck and as part of its test program.

Now the prototype has been spotted in Salt Lake City.
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Tesla Semi is still accumulating orders for its upcoming all-electric truck.

We learn that Walmart, who already ordered a few Tesla Semi trucks last year, added 30 more electric trucks to its order this week.
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A Tesla Semi prototype has been touring around the country apparently to visit reservation holders and now we learn that it has stopped at an unknown test track with a pro-driver.
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As we reported earlier this week, a Tesla Semi prototype is traveling around the US – apparently visiting several reservation holders.

The electric truck stopped at a Supercharger in Colorado where Tesla Semi engineers talked about how they charge the electric truck at a Supercharger.
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A Tesla Semi is accumulating a lot of miles in the past few weeks in what appears to be a mix of the electric truck’s test program and tour to show off the prototype to reservation holders.

The electric truck is now in Iowa, where it stopped at another reservation holder: Ruan Transportation.
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A Tesla Semi prototype is evidently on tour to visit potential customers at the moment since it has been spotted at J.B. Hunt last week and now UPS is taking a look at the electric truck.

The delivery giant’s employees even had the chance to test drive it and they say it’s ‘one smooth ride’.
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Just as the diesel truck industry is in disbelief of what Tesla Semi can do and it is asking for proof, CEO Elon Musk taunts them by claiming a Tesla Semi prototype drove ‘across the country alone’.
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A Tesla Semi prototype has been traveling around the southwest over the past few weeks and it has now stopped to make an interesting appearance at the headquarters of a potentially critical Tesla Semi customer; trucking giant J.B. Hunt.
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The things that Tesla is claiming its all-electric truck, Tesla Semi, can do are so incredible that the diesel truck industry has to think it’s simply not true.

Now they are asking ‘where’s the proof?’
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It seems like all the news around Tesla these days are about the stock, the business, and basically everything except the actual products.

Tesla has now released a cool new ‘family photo’ with all its vehicles from Tesla Semi to the Model 3 and it reminds us what it is all about: the products and their impact.
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A Tesla Semi prototype was spotted at truck inspection center off interstate 80 – seemingly on a cargo run between Fremont Factory and Tesla Gigafactory 1.

The electric truck prototype was reportedly ‘cleared’, according to the California Highway Patrol.
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