Tesla – the transition to the "heavyweight"

3 May 2017

Elon Musk is already talking about the new project

At the TED conference held in Vancouver, Elon Musk has presented a teaser of the truck tractor on the electric range from Tesla. And the image is so uninformative that with the same success he could just words to say about their intentions.

It's something you can see strips of led lights, high close-coupled cabin and aerodynamic full face. Most likely the truck was very beautiful, to addition, Musk said that even riding on the prototype for the Parking lot. The head of the company said that the truck was "very moving" and that "in managing it as a sports car."

The team of developers of Tesla electric truck hired Jerome Gilena. To the way, the last working place of Mr. Gilana was firm Daimler, where he worked on the development of tractor-trailers Mercedes-Benz. Recently, the firm with a star was presented by a city truck on electric private development, so the competition has increased.

According to the statements of Mask, with a technical standpoint, the Tesla truck should not just to catch up, but and to overtake diesel rivals. However, for the truck's mileage from the charging charging more important than for a conventional electric vehicle, because to compete with them on heavy fuel "Tesla" will have to exert maximum effort.

It is expected that the current instance of the Tesla truck will present in September. It should be noted that many have begun the development of projects in this area, but never offered by sales of the model. Take the firm under the name Nikola, who is working on a similar idea – the project is, but can not buy yet.

This year Tesla, among other things, is going to present the pickup with electric drive, production of which is deferred to a later date. Later in the company plans a new Roadster, of which representatives of the firm only saying, but not called the timing of development.