The long-awaited electric trucks Tesla Semi They will finally see the light before the end of 2022. Elon Musk revealed that his automotive company has already started production of the first units, which will be delivered to Pepsi. The food and beverage company will receive the vehicles on December 1, five years after placing the order.
“Excited to announce the start of production of the Tesla Semi Truck with deliveries to Pepsi on December 1st!”, the billionaire wrote on Twitter. He added that the truck has a “500 mile range” (about 805 km) on a single charge and is “super fun to drive”.
The Semi Truck, a fully electric, semi-autonomous Class 8 truck, was introduced in 2017. At the time, Elon Musk said they would start manufacturing them in 2019 but, like the much-heralded cyber truckhas been delayed by several factors, mainly the shortage of parts derived from the pandemic.
One of his first clients was PepsiCo Inc.., which ordered 100 Tesla Semi vehicles to reduce fuel costs and emissions from its fleet. Ramon Laguarta, CEO of PepsiCosaid in 2021 to CNBC transportation represented 10% of the company’s gas emissions. The company plans to be “zero emissions” by 2040.
Pepsi to debut Elon Musk’s first Tesla Semi
Last August, the 51-year-old tycoon advanced in a tweet that it would start delivering the first Semi trucks at the end of the year. Now, he announces that they have already started producing them at his plant in Nevada, near the Tesla Gigafactory.
For its part, the multinational confirmed that it will receive the trucks on the date revealed by the businessman. Neither Elon Musk nor Pepsi specified how many units will be delivered that day. However, the soft drink company said on its website that it expects to deploy 15 of these vehicles during the last month of the year. These would be for his Frito-Lay plant in Modesto, California, and her beverage factory in Sacramento.
Other companies, including UPS, Walmart Canada and the foodservice distributor Sysco Corp.they also made advance reservations of the Tesla Semi, but everything indicates that they will continue on the waiting list, because the richest man in the world did not say anything about their deliveries.
The CEO of Tesla has not given exact figures on the volume of production planned for the Semi Truck. It is also not known how many units he already has committed to buyers.
Each Tesla electric truck is expected to cost between 150,000 and 180,000 (3 to 3.6 million Mexican pesos), depending on the range.
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