Tesla is set to unveil on Thursday its long-delayed Semi, a 18-wheeler heavy duty vehicle that has faced skepticism from industry experts who doubt battery electric trucks can take the strain of hauling hefty loads for hundreds of miles.
"Tesla team just completed a 500 mile drive with a Tesla Semi weighing in at 81,000 lbs!" Musk tweeted last week. For Microsoft founder
"I'm worried not about other competitors," Nikola boss Michael Loscheller told Reuters on Wednesday. "I want to take diesel trucks off the road," he said, adding that federal incentives for trucks that run on hydrogen could be more substantial than those battery electric trucks.Musk has said Tesla needs to mass-produce its cheaper 4680 batteries in-house to build the Semi, which uses five times the number of cells a car needs.
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