Elon Musk told his staff it was time to bring the Tesla Semi commercial truck to “volume production.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-truck-idUSKBN23H1PE
-Trump met with truckers, told them their industry was going to rebound.
-Amazon quarterly report said transportation costs skyrocketed 49% (at a time when fuel costs are very low).
-Now Elon says the time is right for his electric semi, which was first announced in 2017, same time he started the boring company and landed the first booster rocket back on the pad.
Did the technology for electric semis already exist? Used in tunnels where exhaust pollution is a big problem?
Tunnels that already exist, bored with technology that already exists?