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[SCOOP]: The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess" (bradmunchen.substack.com)

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PepsiCo employee says the Tesla Semi is a "disaster" & does 400 miles "at best" with round-the-clock servicing by Tesla engineers

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

So, barring the apologists take, the issues seem to be:

They used car parts, not semi truck parts
the batteries wear out incredibly fast, such that a fully loaded ride from LA to Phoenix had to have two backup tesla semis towed by a diesel rig alongside for when it broke down
batteries wear out quickly, at about $100k per replacement
the trucks are entirely paid for by CA taxpayers, and Pepsi keeps using them for eco-credits, not because they’re useful
100k trucks were promised, 90 (not 90k - ninety) were manufactured

That the whole thing appears to be stock-pumping vaporware is an opinion, but it does track.

Is all that hearsay? Well, yeah, it’s illegal to talk about it. Against the NDA anyway. Classic Musky.