Tesla Semi Truck has officially started mass production

For almost a decade, Tesla has been working to launch one of its most impactful products to reduce transport emissions: the Tesla Semi electric truck. Now, the first Tesla Semi has officially been produced off a high-volume production line in Nevada. On Tesla Semi account’s X page, the company shared: “First Semi off high volume line”along with a photo that shows a group of Tesla Semi gigafactory employees and contractors standing in front of the first Semi truck.

The factory where this mass production has commenced is capable of producing up to 50,000 Semi trucks a year, a big step up from pilot production and customer trials seen to date.

The first unit features the company’s latest tech which has been improved with learnings from the dozens of trials that have been undertaken so far with large logistics and freight operators in the US. Over the last couple of years, there have been sightings of the Tesla Semi being used by Walmart, retail store giant Costco and other logistics operators such as DHL.