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Sunday 4 October 2026

Tesla Semi explained: the electric big rig now in production

The Tesla Semi is Tesla's electric big rig. It went into volume production in Nevada on 24 September 2026, almost nine years after it was first shown.

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The Tesla Semi is finally a production truck. On 24 September 2026, Tesla launched high-volume production of its battery-electric big rig at a dedicated factory in Sparks, Nevada, and said customer deliveries "start now". That came almost nine years after Elon Musk first showed the truck off.

A Pepsi-operated Tesla Semi on the highway near Sacramento, California, in October 2023 — Photo: Dllu / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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