The Order Line Has ALREADY Started For Tesla's New Semi Truck

Keep in mind, that Tesla has a stack of around 400,000 Model 3 orders. They're struggling to get those orders converted into sales in numbers that are better than a mere trickle each month.

"Order" = *Intention* to buy, with a small, refundable deposit, and the ability to change your mind.

"Sale" = Transferring ownership of a finished vehicle to the customer.

These two are very different!

They are different but not so much in this case. If people haven't cancelled their orders by now, it would take a major negative surprise to cause them to cancel now.

Ha ha ha haaaaa. A Tesla semi? Will it have leather seats?
Tesla cannot even produce their cars properly and at necessary numbers and now they are going to produce semi trucks based on their vast knowledge of trucks.

WTF is the deal with this forum? You'd think people who visit a site like this would be interested in seeing cool new concept cars and trucks, yet the forum craps all over anything new and innovative and seems to be rooting for the return of the steam engine.

I guess all you guys must work for GM?

Nothing about Tesla is innovative.

@carlos - Don't worry about the haters. TESLA has coming up and taken a huge chunk of the luxury sedan market. They will do so in the near premium market with the Model 3 when production has ramped up. People who hate are just jealous. GM/VW/Toyota could have all done this but they chosen not to. It is a very brash and very American thing to do what Elon Musk has done against all odds.

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

JFK

"Nothing about Tesla is innovative."

From the same brilliant mind that insists that adding an extra layer to a distribution model makes things cheaper for consumers.

Also @Carlosasslicker Please explain how a monopoly and price fixing gives consumers the best price.

Saying Tesla has a monopoly is like saying Ford has a monopoly on selling Ford cars. Competition from other car companies is what will keep negative pressure on their car prices.

A true monopoly puts upwards pressure on price and is negative for consumers, but I don't think this is a true monopoly. There are dramatic cost savings in cutting out the middleman and Tesla can only price their products at what the market is willing to pay. Same situations with almost any other product (Apple is a good example). If 100% of cars were Teslas, then it would be a different story.

Evidently there a some people here who either have inhaled too many toxic fumes or need a loud and stinking machine to compensate for... for whatever.
Sad.