Musk says Tesla’s electric Semi truck has started production

Tesla’s long-delayed semi-truck has began manufacturing, and the corporate will start making deliveries as quickly as December 1st, Elon Musk has announced on Twitter. When the automaker unveiled the Tesla Semi manner again in 2017, it anticipated to begin manufacturing the electrical massive rigs by 2019. Whereas that clearly did not occur, Musk advised staff in an e mail again in early 2020 that the automobile was already in restricted manufacturing and that it was “time to go all out and produce the Tesla Semi to quantity manufacturing.” In April that yr, nevertheless, the automaker introduced in an earnings name that it is delaying deliveries but once more to 2021. 

Alas, 2021 wasn’t the Semi’s yr both. Tesla notified shareholders in one other earnings name that deliveries can be delayed to 2022 as a result of world provide chain shortages affecting the tech and auto industries, in addition to its then-limited manufacturing functionality for the automobile’s 4680 fashion battery cells. Musk did not say outright that the corporate’s part scarcity points for the semi-truck have already been addressed. But when it has began constructing the autos, and there is already an anticipated supply date, Tesla should have at the least sufficient elements to construct Semis for its first buyer. 

The primary batch of Semis can be delivered to Pepsi, which ordered 100 autos from the corporate again in December 2017. As TechCrunch notes, different massive corporations had additionally ordered vehicles from the automaker, together with Walmart and UPS. And in Could this yr, the automaker opened reservations to extra clients for a deposit of $20,000. A Semi prices between $150,000 and $180,000, relying on the vary, and it might go so far as 500 miles on a single cost.