Tesla made the first deliveries of its Semi truck to customers Thursday evening, five years after the heavy-duty hauler was first unveiled.
The event included two truck cabs decked out in the livery of Pepsi and Frito-Lay, PepsiCo’s snack foods subsidiary. The Tesla Semi was first shown as a prototype in 2017. At the time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said production would begin in 2019. But Musk didn’t say during Thursday night’s presentation at Tesla’s factory in Sparks, Nevada, how many trucks were actually being delivered to PepsiCo, or how many were being produced, or at what rate.
Regenerative braking — the way electric vehicles use their motors to slow down and recharge their batteries using the vehicle’s own motion — will also be a safety benefit, Priestley said, because drivers won’t have to downshift going down long hills and may not need to use the truck’s actual brakes at all. Tesla’s Autopilot system, touted in the original presentation five years ago as a benefit for long haul truck drivers, wasn’t mentioned during the presentation, however.
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