The Tesla Semi was available for short rides at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Las Vegas.(Photo - Alan Adler/FreightWaves) Perhaps because Tesla has some early points on the board with its Semi electric truck, Elon Musk dispatched his top Semi executive with a message for legacy truck makers: "Get with it".window.googletag = window.{cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot('/21776187881/FW-Responsive-Main_Content-Slot1', [[300, 100], [320, 50], [728, 90], [468, 60]], 'div-gpt-ad-1709668545404-0').defineSizeMapping(gptSizeMaps.banner1).addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(); googletag.enableServices(); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1709668545404-0'); }); Semi's top executive comes to town Dan Priestley is not exactly a household name.
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Its first customer, PepsiCo, ran more than 1,000 miles with one of its three Tesla Semis in a 24-hour period during the North American Council for Freight Efficiency Run on Less Electric Depot demonstration last year. window.googletag = window.{cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot('/21776187881/fw-responsive-main_content-slot3', [[728, 90], [468, 60], [320, 50], [300, 100]], 'div-gpt-ad-1665767553440-0').defineSizeMapping(gptSizeMaps.banner1).addService(googletag.pubads()); googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(); googletag.enableServices(); }); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1665767553440-0'); }); The first Semi production model probably weighs in at 26,000 to 27,000 ...
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