Tesla's Semi Truck Won't Be Here Until Mid November
Tesla’s very first semi truck was supposed to be saying its big hello to the world on 26 October, but that’s now been pushed back to 16 November.
As you might have expected, the Model 3 is a factor. With just 220 delivered to customers thus far, production is way off target, and Elon Musk has announced that the company is indeed “diverting resources” to address the “bottlenecks” that are holding things up. But, there’s another, perhaps surprising factor that’s affected the big reveal: Hurricane Maria.
Maria knocked out power for a million people in Puerto Rico, and with severe power issues continuing to be an issue for the island, Tesla is sending over batteries and power solar panels.
It’s hoped the move will effectively rebuild Puerto Rico’s battered power grid. Musk has been in discussions with Ricardo Rossello - the territory’s government - about exactly how it’ll work.
With power restored to only nine per cent of residence as of last Friday, the batteries can’t come soon enough. A delay to a truck’s unveiling - no matter how potentially game changing the product - doesn’t seem like such a bad price to pay…
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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And like the Tesla 3, it will be delayed.
I’m seeing a trend here Tesla.
The same thing happened to the X. This trend is not that new and is expected at this point.
As much as I love Elon and Tesla, he seems to over shoot his goals.
All you need is a Nissan
I’ll take the girl instead, thanks.
They hype must still be getting “charged up”
Can’t wait for next blockbuster!
We need a modern Valiant… That would be cool.
I actually saw this lol
I have a horrible feeling the whole tesla project could collapse in a very monstrous and alarming way. All these properly pricy projects with not much productivity to show for it is not a winning combination.
Nice of them to turn their attention to mending Puerto Rico all the same.
More valuable than ford and Bmw.
good, go to hell with their god damn electric cars
And yet i still dont care
It‘s sad, but if the time and money is used to help people in Puerto Rico i‘m totally fine with it. I‘m just a bit worried that Tesla may go bancrupt soon if they don‘t find some way to fix their delivery game.
Hmm, this seems familiar…
The longer I don’t have to see it the better.
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