It’s pretty unlikely you’ll buy a Tesla Semi. There are reasons why you should care about the hulking electric vehicle, though.
Chief Executive Elon Musk showed off the truck Thursday night to tout the first shipments of the massive machines to PepsiCo, which ordered 100 Tesla Semis in 2017 when the truck debuted. Tesla missed its initial deadline to start selling Tesla Semis in 2019, but now it’s building them at a factory in Sparks, Nevada.
“It’s a beast,” Musk said of the Tesla Semi, showing a video of one passing other trucks driving uphill with a fully loaded weight of 82,000 pounds.
So no, not a machine most of us will ever drive. But Tesla’s 18-wheeler could be important to us, anyway, as the company continues to push major change in the automotive industry. Here’s why.
