Tesla’s Truck Reached Production, Nearly a Decade After the Concept
Musk has insisted that investors think of Tesla as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. The vehicle that actually got a launch event was the Tesla Semi, whose concept first rolled onto a Tesla event stage in late 2017. Nearly a decade later, Tesla launched high-volume production at a livestreamed but invite-only event at its factory. That gap is the instructive part: in trucking, the milestone that matters is the assembly line, not the concept on stage.
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The story being sold to investors is robots. The thing that got a launch event is a truck.
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The truck may be the harder test rather than the lesser one — nearly a decade from a concept stage to volume production is not a fast pivot.