PepsiCo employee says the Tesla Semi is a "disaster" & does 400 miles "at best" with round-the-clock servicing by Tesla engineers

PepsiCo employee says the Tesla Semi is a “disaster” & does 400 miles “at best” with round-the-clock servicing by Tesla engineers

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    301·
    11 months ago

    So, barring the apologists take, the issues seem to be:

    • They used car parts, not semi truck parts
    • the batteries wear out incredibly fast, such that a fully loaded ride from LA to Phoenix had to have two backup tesla semis towed by a diesel rig alongside for when it broke down
    • batteries wear out quickly, at about $100k per replacement
    • the trucks are entirely paid for by CA taxpayers, and Pepsi keeps using them for eco-credits, not because they’re useful
    • 100k trucks were promised, 90 (not 90k - ninety) were manufactured

    That the whole thing appears to be stock-pumping vaporware is an opinion, but it does track.

    Is all that hearsay? Well, yeah, it’s illegal to talk about it. Against the NDA anyway. Classic Musky.

    • dynamojoe@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      I skimmed it and tend to agree. It’s just a list of complaints, a non-critical attempt at a technical clarification of each complaint, and no analysis beyond “this user says this sucks, here’s a possible explanation why it sucks”. The multiple references to a stock pump towards the end and the financial disclaimer at the bottom makes me think this is TSLAQ fodder.

  • darganon@lemmy.world
    52·
    11 months ago

    The tone of this article is the guy wants to hate the Tesla semi, and provides no facts other than “A Pepsi insider said so”