Jay Leno came away impressed with the Tesla Semi after hopping behind the wheel.
is underway following the truck's unveiling in 2017, with the first examples delivered to customers late last year. While he's not exactly the target customer, Jay Leno recently got to take the battery-powered semi-trailer truck for a spin for the latest episode of his"Jay Leno's Garage" online series.
The idea came from then-CTO JB Straubel , Priestley explains in the video. Straubel felt that shipping battery packs from Tesla's Gigafactory plant in Reno, Nevada, to its vehicle plant in Fremont, California, in diesel trucks was contrary to the company's mission of zero-emission transportation. With encouragement from another Tesla executive who previously worked at truck maker Freightliner, the idea eventually"snowballed" into a production-bound project, Priestley said.
The front corners of the Semi were designed to be easily repairable since they're also the most likely to be damaged. And while the Semi has about the same ride height as a diesel semi truck, designers tried to make it easier to get in an out of the cab—including added suicide doors. Falling off a truck is the number one source of trucker worker's compensation claims, Priestley said. And that centered driver's seat allegedly improves visibility.
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