“It’s a beast.”
More powerful, more efficient and fully electric. Semi is the future of trucking.
That’s how Tesla has described its recently launched fully electric truck, the Semi.
According to a statement released by the company, the truck comes standard with active safety features that pair with advanced motor and brake controls to deliver traction and stability in all conditions.
A central seating position gives the driver better visibility, while an all-electric architecture reduces both rollover risk and cabin intrusion in case of an accident.
And with less than 2 kWh per mile of energy consumption, it can travel up to 500 miles (approximately 805 kilometres) on a single charge. It’s also able to recover up to 70% of range in 30 minutes using Tesla’s Semi Chargers.
With remote diagnostics, over-the-air software updates, and fewer moving parts to maintain, CEO Elon Musk says that operators will spend less time at service centres and more time on the road.
On Thursday night he handed over his company's first electric Semi trucks to PepsiCo, part of an order of 100 vehicles. It’s three years behind schedule, but it still happened.
Prior to the launch, Musk said durability testing had taken place "in every type of environment”.
Much of the architecture, he added, was borrowed from the company's passenger cars.
