Tesla plans to deploy a public charging community for its Tesla Semi truck, beginning with 46 stations in 2027, based on a brand new presentation.
At a brand new presentation on the ACT Expo this week, Tesla’s head of the Semi program, Dan Priestley, revealed a number of new particulars concerning the long-awaited electrical semi-truck.
Through the presentation, Priesley claimed that Tesla Semi vehicles have already cumulatively traveled 7.9 million miles (12.7 million km).
He didn’t disclose what number of vehicles contributed to this complete mileage, however he did add that “greater than 26 Tesla Semi vehicles” have every traveled over 100,000 miles.”
These numbers have been up to date from a earlier presentation in September 2024, when Priestley stated the Tesla Semi fleet had traveled 7.5 million miles and {that a} single truck had traveled 250,000 miles (400,000 km) over the past 1.5 years.
Tesla additionally confirmed that the truck goes to be outfitted with a 25 kW Energy Take Off (PTO) on the again to energy exterior methods, like a refrigerated trailer, for instance (by way of Jake Guerra on LinkedIn):
Priestley additionally revealed just a few extra particulars about Tesla’s deliberate enlargement of its charging community for the Tesla Semi.
The corporate presently operates the Supercharger community. It’s the most intensive EV fast-charging community in North America, however it’s geared towards passenger electrical automobiles and never sensible for greater industrial automobiles, like Tesla Semi.
Tesla has already deployed Megachargers, its charging station for electrical semi vehicles, at its personal installations and people of some customer-partners who’ve been testing the Tesla Semi, however now it plans to deploy public charging stations to allow long-haul trucking with the electrical truck.
Priestley stated that Tesla is now aiming to deploy 46 Megacharging stations as a part of its public charging community by early 2027.
It’s not clear whether or not the areas on the map precisely symbolize the plans, however it seems probably based mostly on beforehand reported Megacharger data.
The presentation follows an replace launched by Tesla this week concerning the Tesla Semi manufacturing unit in Nevada.
The automaker goals to start out quantity manufacturing of the truck in 2026.
Tesla Semi was first alleged to enter manufacturing in 2019, however it has been considerably delayed as Tesla tried to ship on the promise of vary and capability.
It seems that the automaker might be able to ship on these, however at a considerably increased worth than beforehand introduced, as we not too long ago reported.
