Tesla has unveiled a rendering of its upcoming “Semi Factory” to build semi-trucks alongside Gigafactory Texas in Nevada.
The Tesla Semi program has experienced delays, even since it officially went into production.
It was first introduced in 2017 and was scheduled to be released in 2020, but it didn’t officially go into production until late 2022.
Although it started more than a year ago, the program is still very limited.
In October 2023, we learned that Tesla had only built about 70 Tesla Semi trucks and that the company manufactured them in-house and with one major customer: PepsiCo.
In January 2023, Tesla announced the creation of Gigafactory Nevada to build the Tesla Semi in volume.
However, more than a year later, we haven’t heard much about this effort.
Earlier this year, Tesla finally began moving dirt and began painting structures at the site of the new factory. In April, Tesla said the plant is expected to be completed next year and begin generating Tesla Semi trucks through “the end of 2025. “
Now, Dan Priestley, Tesla’s Semi program manager, has shared a symbol of the existing progress on the Semifactory and a rendering of the planned finished semifactory:
The construction photo shows that Tesla has paintings on the foundation:
You call the guy who shakes the stick to keep everything moving in the semiconductor factory?
With the trucks next to the base anchors we get an idea of the impressive scale of this building.
Tesla shared a rendering of the planned finished factory:
We can see that the structure will be giant once it is completed.
Tesla hasn’t revealed many details about the plant, but the automaker has already discussed its goal of producing up to 50,000 Tesla Semis per year.
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