Oliver Haslam·

Tesla’s Semi Truck Is Finally Getting Ready To Enter Production

After what’s felt like forever and years of delays, the Tesla Semi, an electric truck, is getting ready to enter production. While it won’t be the first all-electric truck on the market, it will be the first one that promises class 8 status for long-range hauling.

As reported by Electrek, the Tesla Semi was first announced in 2017 with some promising numbers.

When launching Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker said that the electric truck’s production versions, a class 8 truck with an 80,000-lb capacity, will have 300-mile and 500-mile range options for $150,000 and $180,000, respectively.

Since then it’s all been worryingly quiet, with Tesla having said in 2017 that it planned to have the truck ready for market by 2019. We’re now obviously in 2021, and we’re still waiting. Tesla is no stranger to delayed vehicles and features of course, but now sources are telling Electrek that production is ready to get underway.

Now sources familiar with the matter told Electrek that the drive axle production line is ready and the general assembly line is going through its final debugging before starting production.

It is one of the last steps before starting production of the all-electric truck.

While very few of us will be looking to buy one of these things, there is no denying that the idea of a fleet of Tesla Semi trucks driving around would be good for everyone. Now we wait and hope that there are no more delays for what has already been a problematic launch for a company with a history of problematic launches.

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