First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line
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#2"High volume"?
Coming from Tesla, I'll believe it after they actually ship a high volume of those units.
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#3meanwhile Freightliner, Volvo, and BYD already have active fleets.
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#4"High volume"? Coming from Tesla, I'll believe it after they actually ship a high volume of those units.
>0 is a high volume for something that was supposed to start rolling off the production line back in 2019....
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#5"High volume"? Coming from Tesla, I'll believe it after they actually ship a high volume of those units.
Bonus points if the body panels don't fall off and it can drive through a puddle
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#6Nice.
Tesla claims they will "ramp up" production to 50,000 units per year. When does the 100th unit roll off the line? Let's see some actuals. Tesla's volume and delivery time estimates do not have a good history of reliability. Volvo has 5,000 electric semitrucks on the road right now.
Tesla also announced that MDB Drayage is using Tesla tractors to haul container chassis around the Port of Los Angeles.[1] But the pictures show a Tesla tractor hauling an ordinary box semitrailer, not a container on a container chassis. The MDB Drayage is just a three-week test, too. Drayage is almost the ideal use.
[1] https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/tesla-semi-drayage-operator-m...
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#8Nice. Tesla claims they will "ramp up" production to 50,000 units per year. When does the 100th unit roll off the line? Let's see some actuals. Tesla's volume and delivery time estimates do not have a good history of reliability. Volvo has 5,000 electric semitrucks on the road right now. Tesla also announced that MDB Drayage is using Tesla tractors to haul container chassis around the Port of Los Angeles.[1] But the…
The Tesla semi is the only truck with a 500 mile range. So it does have an advantage over other electric trucks for long-haul trucking.
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#9A 30 minute charge means each charger can service a maximum of 48 tractors per day, and realistically probably less than that. I wonder how many trucks fill at a typical diesel filling station per day.
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#10meanwhile Freightliner, Volvo, and BYD already have active fleets.
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