Following on news that Walmart, the trucking firm JB Hunt, and the Canada-based grocery chain Loblaw will all be placing orders and putting down reservations for Tesla’s newly revealed semi truck, the truck leasing and fleet management firm Ryder Systems has revealed that it will be doing so as well.
Following earlier news that the US-based trucking firm JB Hunt would be reserving and ordering a number of Tesla’s new semi trucks, Walmart and the Canada-based grocery chain Loblaw have both revealed that they will be doing the same.
The official unveiling of the Tesla Semi has been scheduled for October 26 at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
While the Tesla Model 3 is interesting, the company’s semi-truck development program grabs my attention much more so … which brings us back to Musk’s tweet.
2016 was a pretty huge year for cleantech, but I think it was more like a foundation-laying year, whereas 2017 and 2018 will be the breakout years in which we start seeing the walls of the beautiful cleantech transition that foundation is going to support. (Building-integrated solar PV walls with EV charging plugs, of course.)
Tesla’s “Master Plan, Part Deux” spends a large portion of its content on heavier transportation, especially cargo and buses. Tesla is an intelligently incrementalist company which is very data driven, so how is this likely to play out? The first cut that’s necessary is about pickups in North America vs everything else that Tesla … [continued]
If you were genuinely a Tesla Motors early adopter (buying a Roadster or an early Model S), or if you just frequented the Tesla Motors Club forum much before the release of the Model X, you are very likely familiar with the name Jerome Guillen. However, if you came to the party … [continued]
