This is why Tesla Semi will change road transport forever
Just a couple of weeks ago Tesla started deliveries of their latest product: the Tesla Semi, which is aiming to shake up the trucking industry.
Pepsi Co, their first customer, has been eagerly waiting to get their hands on their new trucks and is pumped to start using them for product deliveries.
Why is Tesla producing a Semi Truck?
It’s been long since Tesla announced that it would start producing this class 8 semi-truck and time went by but the company has been very busy with its other products.
Why a company that is so focused on ramping up its car business, that is so battery constrained, would spend so much effort building a product that is in a new category and that needs as many battery cells as 10 cars or more?
Elon Musk made it clear in the presentation that producing and selling this type of vehicle is in line with the company’s mission: “to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage”.
This is because, in the US, although trucks only account for 1% of the total vehicle sales…
