AUSTIN, Texas — The Tesla Semi Class 8 electric truck has successfully completed its first fully loaded, long-haul journey on a full charge, company owner Elon Musk announced Sunday via Twitter.
“The Tesla team just completed a 500 mile drive in a Tesla Semi that weighs 81,000 pounds,” Musk tweeted.
Musk announced on Oct. 7 that his company’s first production Tesla Semi’s will be delivered to soda giant PepsiCo on Dec. 1.
PepsiCo reserved 100 of the electric tractors in 2017.
This followed an Aug. 10 announcement by Musk that the Tesla Semi trucks would begin shipping this year.
Tesla claims that the Semi uses less energy than 2 kWh/mile (1.24 kWh/km) on average. The battery’s capacity would be less than 1,000 kWh at a 500-mile range.
Tesla says it plans to increase manufacturing output of the Semi to 50,000 units annually by the end of 2024.
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wierd that you don’t publish the time from dock to dock, how many times it had to recharge batteries or time lost recharging. 500 miles should be done in one day, hardly worthy of being deemed “long haul”
I’m sorry I won’t haul for a semi it’s 700 miles that’s in That is with constant speed Out in the mountains Is where you need to test and pour in an 80000 pound load which is a legal load not 81000. You need to be pulling the mountains and making sure that it can climb mountains with a full charge and see how much the distance can go, that would be a long haul not 500 miles
So what I’ve heard the “Tesla semi” was in Colorado mtns recently I-70 wb . Ran out of juice before it got vail pass some where between Eisenhower pass(tunnel) . It was towed back to Denver, CO
Take a 45000 lb. Beer load out of Golden bypassing the Eisenhower tunnel up into the 10,000 ft. Rocky Mountain mountain range ,down the other side in the dead of winter back to I 70.See how it performs then.
Diesel powered cascadia w/ 14’ High cubed trailer.Getterdunn!.