Tesla has announced that it will postpone the start of production of the Tesla Semi electric truck until 2022 due to battery production issues. The Tesla Semi will be equipped with a battery pack that uses the new 4680 battery developed by Tesla, but there are still some issues remaining in the production of this new battery, so Tesla has stalled several projects. I'm eating
Tesla Semi is the first commercial vehicle produced by Tesla and was announced in 2017. What attracted attention was its extremely low coefficient of air resistance (Cd value) of 0.36, which is amazing for a truck. It means that there is. Also, the cruising range, which can be said to be the weak point of electric vehicles, was revised to 500 miles (about 805 km) at the time of announcement, and later to 621 miles (about 1000 km). The charging time is also explained by using the Tesla Megacharger to restore the charge to the point where it can run 400 miles in 30 minutes. And sales were scheduled to start in 2019.
After that, although there was news that several companies were interested in Semi and placed orders, Semi's development progress has not been released in detail, and it has passed 2019 when it was scheduled to be released. Since then, there has been some talk about postponing the production period. The most recent mention made by CEO Elon Musk was in an internal email in June 2020, stating, "So far, we're in limited production." Also, documents submitted in 2020 said the Tesla Semi was aiming to start delivering in 2021.
And this week, Tesla said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it is on track to build the first Model Y in 2021 at the factories it is building in Berlin, Germany and Austin, U.S. there is," he said. However, he explained that the production pace of each car will be affected by the pros and cons of introducing new manufacturing technology, supply chain issues, and the progress of approval applications in each region. Furthermore, due to the current limited availability of battery cells, we are postponing the start of the Tesla Semi program to 2022.
The 4680-type cell was expected to reveal the date of mass production in the documents, but it is still not clearly stated. Tesla will be in the Model Y as well as the Semi (it was supposed to be in the Model S Plaid, but that plan fell through). Whether or not the Tesla Semi will actually go into production in 2022 is something to keep an eye on for a while.
Source: Insider, Electrek
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