Tesla’s long-delayed semi-truck has began manufacturing, and the corporate will start making deliveries as quickly as December 1st, Elon Musk has announced on Twitter. When the automaker unveiled the Tesla Semi approach again in 2017, it anticipated to begin manufacturing the electrical huge rigs by 2019. While that clearly did not occur, Musk advised workers in an electronic mail again in early 2020 that the car was already in restricted manufacturing and that it was “time to go all out and bring the Tesla Semi to volume production.” In April that 12 months, nonetheless, the automaker introduced in an earnings name that it is delaying deliveries but once more to 2021. 

Alas, 2021 wasn’t the Semi’s 12 months both. Tesla notified shareholders in one other earnings name that deliveries can be delayed to 2022 because of the international provide chain shortages affecting the tech and auto industries, in addition to its then-limited manufacturing functionality for the car’s 4680 model battery cells. Musk did not say outright that the corporate’s part scarcity points for the semi-truck have already been addressed. But if it has began constructing the automobiles, and there is already an anticipated supply date, Tesla should have at the least sufficient components to construct Semis for its first buyer. 

The first batch of Semis shall be delivered to Pepsi, which ordered 100 automobiles from the corporate again in December 2017. As TechCrunch notes, different huge corporations had additionally ordered vans from the automaker, together with Walmart and UPS. And in May this 12 months, the automaker opened reservations to extra clients for a deposit of $20,000. A Semi prices between $150,000 and $180,000, relying on the vary, and it might go so far as 500 miles on a single cost.