Home › News › Cenntro delivers 20 LS450 e-trucks under New York scheme Cenntro’s reliance on state vouchers shows how far smaller electric truckmakers depend on public funding to reach US fleets Cenntro has handed over 20 LS450 electric trucks through New York State’s truck voucher…
When a diesel tractor catches fire on a Bay Area freeway, it’s a bad commute and a short news item. When a Tesla Semi does it, CHP closes the whole road. That’s what happened in Hayward this week. CHP’s Hayward…
It wants to hire a sales manager, service manager, HR business partner, purchasing manager, and project developer for charging. For management roles, Tesla said it is seeking candidates with at least five years of experience in comparable positions, the ability…
The company’s whitepaper, Trucking Needs More Than a Choice Between Diesel and EV Trucks: Electrify the Trailer, examines the economics of reducing diesel consumption in refrigerated trucking operations. The analysis compares conventional diesel equipment, a Tesla Semi, and Range Energy’s…
"Every truck maker that did compete was able to lower their price significantly in response to the scale demand. So that scale really moved the market — not just one good deal," Façanha said. The 2,500 trucks will be concentrated in 10 freight…
Tesla’s European-spec Semi is headed for its first public showing in France, with organizers confirming the electric tractor will appear at Connect Trucks 2026 in Deauville on November 3 and 4. Jean-William Dubal, Tesla’s Semi business development manager for France, said on LinkedIn…
Tesla has announced the latest batch of community-picked Supercharger sites. The official Tesla Charging account on X shared 36 new winning locations for Q3 2026, now marked on Tesla’s Find Us map, and announced that a new Supercharger voting round for the fourth…
HAYWARD, CA — A Tesla semi-truck completely shut down I-880 in Hayward Tuesday evening after it suddenly combusted, authorities said. It's unclear what caused the semi-truck to catch fire. California Highway Patrol around 8 p.m. said officers closed the northbound and southbound…
If you drove through the East Bay area of California on Tuesday night, you probably got caught in a nightmare. A Tesla Semi traveling down Interstate 880 in Hayward caught fire during the evening commute. There was no crash, no multi-vehicle…
Tesla is planning to expand its Supercharger network in Malaysia with six additional stations before the end of 2026, building on the company’s growing charging infrastructure across the country. According to Tesla Malaysia, the company currently operates 21 Supercharger stations with a…
The Tesla Semi is the company's bid to electrify the backbone of the economy: the heavy truck. Unveiled in 2017 with bold claims about range, efficiency and operating costs, it promised to change long-haul trucking by replacing diesel engines with battery power. The first deliveries came in December 2022, to PepsiCo, years later than originally promised. Since then the Semi has been tested by fleets on regional routes, where its range and quick charging have drawn attention.
The Semi's design breaks with trucking tradition. The driver sits in the center of the cab, flanked by screens, and the truck uses multiple electric motors for strong acceleration even when fully loaded. It charges at Megachargers, high-power stations designed specifically for heavy trucks. Fleet operators have reported encouraging efficiency numbers, while skeptics question the cost, weight and infrastructure needed to make battery-electric heavy trucks work at scale. Like other electric trucks, it has faced scrutiny over battery fire risks.
The Semi competes with electric trucks from established manufacturers, including Freightliner's eCascadia, Volvo's VNR Electric and models from Chinese makers, as well as hydrogen fuel-cell trucks. Tesla has built a dedicated factory near its Nevada Gigafactory for volume production, and truck-stop operators have begun opening Megachargers beyond California. Its success will depend on whether it can deliver on cost, range and reliability for fleets that live on thin margins and measure everything in cents per mile, and whether a charging network for heavy trucks can grow fast enough to support long-haul routes.
The coverage here includes fleet deployments, Megacharger openings, production news, safety incidents, regulatory developments and comparisons with diesel and hydrogen trucks. Expect stories about real-world efficiency, freight operators' experiences with charging stops and payload limits, and the broader question of how quickly the trucking industry can move away from diesel. Emissions rules in California and other states, and federal policy on clean trucks, will shape that answer as much as the hardware does, which makes the Semi as much a policy story as an engineering one.
Tesla's electric big rig, unveiled in 2017 and delivered from 2022, now chasing volume production and a network of Megachargers.
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