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When Elon Musk released his' Master Plan Part 2' for Tesla last year, he surprised a lot of people in the industry when he announced that the automaker will soon venture in the semi-truck business.
[...] Musk announced several new vehicle programs when he released his' Master Plan Part 2': a minibus, a pickup truck, and a semi truck. Those were added to the already known Model 3 and Model Y programs.
Since Tesla already has over 400,000 reservations for the Model 3, Musk is emphasizing that the automaker is focusing its resources on the vehicle before going into those new programs.
When questioned about Tesla losing its focus after the announcement that they are already working on the new vehicles last year, Musk said that "early development work" is not taking a lot of resources away from Model 3. Tooling and getting to production is where things get expensive.
Based on Musk's comment, we would expect Tesla Semi to still be in "early development work" as the company is still working on bringing the Model 3 to production in the coming months.
Source: https://electrek.co/2017/02/05/tesla-semi-electric-truck-elon-musk/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:19AM
> ... to and from town with a 300 mile round trip, ...
OK, where do you live, where all these requirements are combined?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:27AM
Duh!... obviously, next door to Big Foot!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:48AM
Sounds like a farm truck that never leaves the property (except on rare occasions like the poster above mentioned).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @08:40AM
Correct. Farm truck also used for hauling products to distributors and bulk supplies back.
But honestly, it could fit a lot of contractors' needs as well.