PepsiCo Unveils Fleet of 18 Tesla Semi in Sacramento

[hochmartinez]

https://insideevs.com/news/661934/pepsico-fleet-tesla-semi-sacramento/

[rad_gruchalski]

> "The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District paid for 18 of the 21 trucks to be used at the South Sacramento bottling plant with $4.5 million in grants, said Alberto Ayala, its executive director."

> "PepsiCo received a total of $15 million in state and local grants for the vehicles and charging infrastructure in both Sacramento and Modesto, plus $40,000 per vehicle from the federal government"

The taxpayer paid for that?

[nubinetwork]

18/100 in 6 years... maybe elon should fix that instead of screwing with twitter.

[knewter → nubinetwork]

Is your contention that Tesla is underperforming?

[gs17 → knewter]

Elon was "reasonably expecting" they would be making over 100,000 trucks per year (which seems to be more than any other producer of Class 8 trucks in the US) around now: https://electrek.co/2018/02/08/tesla-semi-electric-semi-truc... .

[nubinetwork → knewter]

Yes, Mack cranks out several model lines every year, and Tesla still pretends they don't have a waiting list.