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Tesla Lands Some Orders for Its Electric Truck
Tesla Inc. has quickly rounded up orders for roughly 50 of the “Semi” Class 8 electric truck it unveiled last Thursday.
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Tesla Inc. has quickly rounded up orders for roughly 50 of the “Semi” Class 8 electric truck it unveiled last Thursday.
Tesla is collecting $5,000 deposits for the big highway rig, which will go into production in 2019. The company has not publicly announced a price for the vehicle.
The Semi will handily outperform diesel trucks in acceleration and overall operating cost, Tesla claims. It says the truck can haul as much as 80,000 lbs of freight for 500 miles per charge—about half the range of a conventional Class 8 diesel truck.
Canadian grocery chain Loblaw Cos. announced that it plans to buy 25 of the trucks. The company said earlier that it aims to convert its entire corporate fleet to electric vehicles by 2030.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plunked down deposits for 15 Semis. Five will be deployed in the U.S. and 10 are slated to go into service in Canada.
Michigan-based superstore chain Meijer Inc. reports it has put down a deposit for four Semi trucks. Freight operator J.B. Hunt Transport Services intends to use an unspecified number of the trucks on the West Coast.
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