Pepsi will be the first customer to receive the electrified cargo transports:
Five years after CEO Elon Musk officially unveiled his Semi, Tesla's electrified tractor trailer, the company delivered its first official production vehicle to Pepsi on Thursday during its "Semi Delivery Event" held at Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory. The beverage maker has ordered 100 of the vehicles in total.
First shown off in 2017, the Tesla Semi originally was set to retail for $150,000 and $180,000 for the 300- and 500-mile versions, respectively. Those prices are significantly higher than the $60k a standard diesel cab runs but Tesla estimates that its vehicles can operate 20 percent more efficiently (2kWh per mile, Musk revealed Thursday), and save up to $250,000 over the million-mile life of the Semi.
[...] Each rig is "designed like a bullet," Musk said at the vehicle's unveiling, and would come equipped with a massive 1MW battery pack. This reportedly offers a 20-second 0-60, which is impressive given that these vehicles are towing up to 80,000 pounds at a time, and a spent-to-80 percent charge time of just 30 minutes. The Semis are also outfitted with Enhanced Autopilot capabilities, as well as jackknife-mitigation systems, blind-spot sensors and data-logging for fleet management.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06, @11:24PM (2 children)
Nice to see progress, but it strikes me as somewhat incongruous that this great "green" tractor is going to be pulling loads of Pepsi, hardly a "green" product.
From some other source, I think another early sponsor/adopter is Frito-Lay? If so, trailers full of chips and other junk food are equally incongruous.
(Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday December 07, @02:57AM
But Pepsi(tm) sponsors BLM, Antifa, ESG and DIE. Haven't you seen their ads?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07, @04:29AM
You're right! Diesels it is then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07, @12:39AM (1 child)
a massive 1MW battery pack
spent-to-80 percent charge time of just 30 minutes.
what could possibly go wrong?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07, @04:30AM
It can go from 80 percent-to-spent in less than a millisecond...
(Score: 2) by MIRV888 on Wednesday December 07, @01:48AM
Isn't this how Maximum Overdrive started?
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday December 07, @04:14AM (1 child)
Eww gross. Put it away!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07, @09:34AM
But it's designed like a bullet!