Tesla Semi Completes 500-Mile Loaded Drive – Gas Smarts
The Tesla battery-elecric Semi in a press picture supplied by the corporate in 2021.
Picture: Tesla
Simply days earlier than the primary Tesla Semi battery-electric Class 8 truck is scheduled to be delivered to PepsiCo, Tesla CEO Elon Musk triggered a wave of reward, skepticism, and hypothesis with a single-sentence Tweet: “Tesla workforce simply accomplished a 500 mile drive with a Tesla Semi weighing in at 81,000 lbs!”
Tesla workforce simply accomplished a 500 mile drive with a Tesla Semi weighing in at 81,000 lbs!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2022
The tweet drew greater than 20,000 replies, lots of them requests for extra particulars than the skimpy announcement. What was the route? Had been there grades? What had been the street circumstances? Common pace? What about charging? Price per mile? How a lot of that 81,000 kilos was the truck and its batteries?
Tesla has introduced an official supply occasion for the Tesla Semi on Dec. 1. This comes 5 years after Musk’s flashy introduction of the truck. He has stated time and again that Semi manufacturing was simply across the nook, solely to be delayed time and again.
— Tesla (@Tesla) November 16, 2022
As Fred Lambert with Elektrek identified, “It appears a bit final minute to finish the primary 500-mile drive, contemplating Tesla is anticipated to ship manufacturing variations of the truck to clients this week.”
PepsiCo confirmed in an October tweet that it’s anticipating its first electrical Tesla Semis on Dec. 1 to help its Frito-Lay plant in Modesto, California, and its PepsiCo drinks plant in Sacramento.
Musk’s tweet drew greater than 20,000 replies from each followers and skeptics, in addition to from opponents:
Lastly!
Welcome to the electrical truck sport, @elonmusk.
If you happen to want recommendation, we have already got hundreds of electrical vehicles on the street…— Renault Vehicles (@RenaultTrucksCo) November 28, 2022
And a few current Tesla Semi sightings:
Took this pic on I-80 east of Reno There the place two of them operating collectively. I am guessing they the place heading again to the Tesla Gigafactory. Maintained 70 mph up and down hills. Very superior!! pic.twitter.com/XJwoFPU65C
— Stevey (@Woodenickel3) November 28, 2022
I noticed it on the street! It was going 60 mph tho. Fairly sluggish for an 80 mph pace restrict space. 🤔 Nevertheless it’s good for California the place truck pace restrict is 55 mph. pic.twitter.com/FCyXN7IDfu
— Joshua (@Mr_Yoshi18) November 28, 2022
