Tesla Semi Truck Coming This September, Pickup To Follow

The news flow from Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to be prolific. Today’s revelation concerns the company plans around producing an all-electric semi-truck, rendered here. Better still, according to Musk on Twitter, Tesla will reveal it just a few months – as early as September 2017.

What does "seriously next level" mean? It could be anything. Earlier reports from last year (again from Musk) indicated Tesla’s Jerome Guillen was already driving and testing the Tesla semi project, although, we have yet to catch any evidence of the program in the wild.
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MDarringer - 4/20/2017 10:27:12 AM

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And the happy unicorns are dancing in fields of clover!

dumpsty - 4/23/2017 11:55:16 AM

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They might as well try mid- & full-size pickup trucks. That would definitely rattle the industry.

carloslassiter - 4/20/2017 10:43:33 AM

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Tesla really needs some of that forward thinking exhibited by Lincoln, which has so far taken years to write "Navigator" on the side of a Ford Expedition and sell it for an extra $20,000.

MDarringer - 4/20/2017 11:32:45 AM

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You are the master of non sequiturs.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 4/20/2017 12:03:34 PM

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The T on the non grill of the truck will be 50cm x 100cm at least.

SanJoseDriver - 4/23/2017 7:08:27 PM

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That is just a made up drawing, we have no idea what it will look like until September. It might be a radical new design or just a slight tweak of what they look like today. Honestly, the looks won't matter much. The most important factor will be the cost-per-mile to drive it and whether it can be conveniently charged.

Holydude - 4/20/2017 3:35:03 PM

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Awesome, he's even making products for rednecks now!

I predict Matt will be buying a Tesla within 5 years.

MDarringer - 4/21/2017 12:00:13 AM

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I'd consider a Tesla now if it could be recharged as fast as I can fill the tank on the Conti, but that's not the case. That and if it didn't look like a cheap Chinese knockoff clone of a Ford Fusion.

dumpsty - 4/23/2017 11:52:06 AM

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For shipping Tesla cars...why not use Tesla trucks? Performance & total full diatance they can travel - under full load - will be interesting.

MDarringer - 4/23/2017 11:56:52 AM

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Brilliant idea!

SanJoseDriver - 4/23/2017 7:06:50 PM

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It will happen when they have trucks and semis, still several years out.