Tesla'S Semi-Electric Vehicle Is Put Through Durability Testing

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Tesla released a video showing their Class 8 semi-electric trucks being tested on their Durability and Reliability tests.

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The company released the video to try and entice people to join their vehicle testing team.

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Tesla marked commercial delivery of its very first Semi EV,

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five years after the massive electric vehicle was first unveiled by Elon Musk as the future of zero-emissions heavy transportation.

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Tesla has also released a time-lapse video showing an electric Semi making its way through 500 miles, fully loaded, on one charge.

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Believed to be an indication of just how much electric Semi trucks such as the Tesla Semi are capable of breaking down concerns and myths surrounding EVs as a whole.

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Much of the 100 Semis architecture itself is borrowed from the architecture of the Tesla passenger cars, said Tesla CEO Elon Musk,

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who is attributing millions, perhaps billions, of miles of real-world usage.

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Musk said in November 2017 that the Tesla Semi will have four EV engines, similar to those used by Teslas Model 3.

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