Musk set to finally take wraps off Tesla truck - to tough crowd

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Tesla is set to unveil on Thursday its long-delayed Semi, a 18-wheeler heavy duty vehicle that has faced skepticism from industry experts who doubt battery electric trucks can take the strain of hauling hefty loads for hundreds of miles.

"Tesla team just completed a 500 mile drive with a Tesla Semi weighing in at 81,000 lbs!" Musk tweeted last week. For Microsoft founder

"I'm worried not about other competitors," Nikola boss Michael Loscheller told Reuters on Wednesday. "I want to take diesel trucks off the road," he said, adding that federal incentives for trucks that run on hydrogen could be more substantial than those battery electric trucks.Musk has said Tesla needs to mass-produce its cheaper 4680 batteries in-house to build the Semi, which uses five times the number of cells a car needs.

 

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Can you imagine the white hot, raging firey inferno that this monstrosity will undoubtedly turn into on the highway? 😮‍💨

Ok with enough batteries. Recharge time? In deliveries, time is money. Guess who will pay for the driver to stand by while charging?

I love the positive reporting from it’s always so non slanted and positive! Keep up the good work losers!

He might or might not be a lot of things, but the one thing he does & does well is engineering. So, will be interesting to see. Depending on costs...could be a game changer...Twitter stuff, well, that remains to be seen, but he's certainly getting into a lot of hot water there.

How much water is needed to put out the fire when these trucks begin to explode?

Tough crowd? Only Elon simps were invited.

Journalism is dead. The hate for elonmusk , all because he bought Twitter and believes in free speech is mind boggling. He produced a product that climate change nut jobs have been begging for, for decades and reuters still writes a hit piece. So much for helping the 🌎🤷‍♂️

I'm more likely to buy a Blackberry phone than a Tesla product at this juncture. Beyond that, plenty of electric alternatives are already out that offer quite excellent performance compared to just a few short years ago.

I like the semi-truck. I actually did not do that. But at present, I do.

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Does it come with Trucker Convoy mode?

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