The Tesla Semi made an look at this yr’s IAA Transportation commerce present in Hannover, Germany this week, and because of a presentation from Dan Priestley, the pinnacle of the Semi program, we get to be taught some fascinating new particulars in regards to the huge electrical rig.
For starters, the roughly 100 Semis made so far have coated over 4.6 million miles on the roads of the USA within the final two years or so. On common, which means every one in all them coated roughly 46,000 miles, which isn’t something to write down residence about within the trucking world, however there may be one explicit unit that has over 248,000 miles on the clock after a yr and a half.
The American EV maker claims in its presentation that the Semi has an power effectivity of 100 kilowatt-hours per 100 kilometers, which comes out at 1.6 kWh/mile–a 20% enchancment over the two kWh/mile marketed on the corporate’s web site.
Within the video embedded beneath, Priestly claims that Tesla is seeing 95% uptime with the Semi–together with downtime for service and upkeep–and that the electrical huge rig can change a diesel Class 8 truck one-for-one, contemplating it’s able to touring 1,000 miles in a day with a number of high-speed charging classes.
One other fascinating piece of data is that the Semi is prepared for the European market. Priestly mentioned that the truck was tailored for European regulation and that it’s avenue authorized there. Nevertheless, Tesla’s rep didn’t say something about when the Semi can be offered in Europe and solely talked about that the corporate plans to succeed in an annual manufacturing of fifty,000 models in 2026.
The truck cab has storage compartments on its sides that may be opened from the touchscreen inside. There is no such thing as a entrance trunk, based on @TheEVuniverse, however the facet storage makes up for that. Furthermore, the physique was reportedly designed to combine a sleeper cab from the get-to, with a metallic construction positioned on the rear to maintain the panels in place for now.
It’s value noting that virtually each Semi-related purpose has been delayed or postponed. It was unveiled as an idea in 2017 and the preliminary manufacturing begin was slated for 2019. That didn’t occur, although, and the rigs went on the meeting line in restricted portions on the finish of 2022, with the primary fleet deliveries going to PepsiCo. Tesla additionally has a number of models in its personal fleet for testing and improvement functions.