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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.