Pepsi Reveals Tesla Semi Operations Details With Real Mileage Numbers

Add to that, the Federal government gave a Grant to PepsiCo for the trucks! Not some little trucking company, but the largest company in the world. I love EV and I admire Elon Musk, for solving big problems like internet for 3rd world companies, etc., but it is devastating for small trucking firms. Federal government tax dollars to make the richest companies even richer, killing the small firms is so typical. Like useless FEMA The counties and cities get the dollars, not the small businesses. Like the energy crisis, the immigration crisis, and the homeless crisis, political footballs for both sides to kick. All politics and no solutions at least Elon has great minds working on solutions to problems the world faces. Not perfect, just trying to make a difference.

Tesla total number of employees in 2022 was 127,855, a 28.77% increase from 2021. 2023 will be a similar increase.
Frito-Lay and Pepsi employ about 370,000 people.
Both companies are committed to reducing CO2 emissions to counteract global warming. Eliminating diesel emissions is part of the process.

Importantly, diesel trucks are a health hazard to children and people with respiratory issues, they produce significant a mounts of lung damaging particulate from exhaust emissions and brake shoe wear. The Tesla semi emits zero exhaust and almost zero brake particulate due to its regenerative braking (it slows the truck by generating power back into the battery when the driver takes his foot off the accelerator), reducing the need for mechanical brakes by around 99%.

Having significant ownership in a company is NOT greed, it is paper wealth in the form of stock certificates, it isn't stacks of dollars sitting somewhere, the stock has no spendable value until it is sold,though the mainstream media would have you think otherwise.

Excuse me??? Elon Musk owns about 13% of Tesla. That means 87% of the company is owned by other folks, many of whom are non-institutional investors, regular working folk like me. Combined and without considering institutional investors, I'd bet we surpass Elon.

Furthermore, Teslas sole in America regularly rank near or at the top for the percentage of the vehicle that is truly American made as opposed to just assembled here with foreign parts. They are as or more American developed and made as virtually any other vehicle on the road. Tesla has brought American engineering back to a reality it hasn't seen since the 60s.

And what the heck are you talking about with the driver nonsense??? We are a long ways from having drivers displaced by autonomous driving. And if some of the long, boring, easy miles do eventually convert over, that will just give our overworked drivers a bit of a breather. Did you not note that one of the biggest causes of shortages over the last couple of years was not having enough drivers despite companies like Walmart hitting 95K type salary levels? If we didn't have some of the load being handled by drivers from across the borders, our country would not be able to operate.

Open your eyes. Wow. Just wow.

My friend, its always been like this, its called progress, I really dont want to sound offensive but we could have stopped developing hundreds of years ago and instead of one two or three massive tractors working in the field you wpuld still have hundreds of people doing this job and getting paid for it... Stop being so fearful, its part of our nature to progress..

These trucks need drivers and will for a while. You sound like an old codger from the horse and buggy times. Truck drivers will need to retrain. If I was a trucker, I'd be learning to repair electric trucks starting NOW. Or you can sit around complaining and be left behind. As a share holder, I want my money to grow. You sound like a communist. Move to China or Russia or adapt. I've been an engineer for 20 years. I've had to continuously learn new things or I would've been obsolete as an employee years ago.

For Elon? For Pepsi? Maybe for the environment?! Hahahaah! Guess you forgot about the environment. What a great informative article! So exciting to see Pepsi try to grow their fleet and the human race making progress toward a better environment for our children! Thank you Pepsi and Tesla!

I didn't see anything for comparison. Fuel vs charging, insurances, hours of operation allowed, active use in yards in movements, loading, prepping. Trucks have a lot of changes in their in terminal uses, and everything should be fairly evaluated to understand the potential either way.

I don't think you get what he was saying exactly. They fully load the trailer volume with Frito lay chips, but it's still 45,000lbs net which is about normal max for a regular semi with a 48' trailer. And for Pepsi, yes it's very heavy, so for the same 45,000lbs trailer loading you won't be double stacking pallets and not fully cubing out the trailer like the chips. No diesel semi can be fully loaded with soda either as you max out the weight pretty quickly. It's still gonna be about 45,000lbs.

Given that they're able to carry 45,000lbs, which again on a normal diesel semi typically gets you to the max legal weight give or take 4,000lbs for a 2 axel 48' trailer. They aren't limited here by battery weight, nor is the 500 mile range some light load, but seems to be as stated at a bit over 80,000lbs gross they get 500 miles.