Last year Elon Musk released his "Master Plan Part II", and when he announced his intention to enter the semi truck business, many industry partners were shocked.
Musk confirmed on February 5, 2017 that the project is called “Tesla Semi†and has made progress, but we don’t have much hope before Tesla completes the Model 3 project.
As previously reported, Musk appointed the former Tesla Model S project director and Daimler Cascadia semi-trailer project general manager Jerome Guillen as the helm of the "Tesla Semi" project.
As Musk issued a tweet this morning, he said he would ask himself to confirm whether the Guillen semi-trailer truck project has improved.
Musk then officially, the project is underway, but Model 3 will remain the company's "top priority."
When Maske announced the "Master Plan Part 2" last year, he mentioned that the following models will be released: one for minibuses, pickups and semi-trailers. This type of vehicle project is now included in the Model 3 and Model Y projects.
Since Tesla Model 3 has a planned quantity of more than 400,000 units, Musk stressed that the company will integrate resources and work on Model 3 vehicle production. The promotion of other new projects will make way for the Model 3 project.
After Musk released the new truck project, some insiders questioned Tesla's distraction. Musk retorted that “pre-development work†would not take up too much resources of the Model 3 model project. Mold making and commissioning is the big money burner.
Based on Musk's response, we expect the Tesla Semi project to remain in the “early R&D work†phase, as Tesla will focus on the production of the Model 3 in the coming months.
As mentioned earlier, the development of the Tesla Semi project has long been led by Tesla executive Jerome Guillen. Prior to joining Tesla in 2010, he was a senior executive at Daimler Trucks North America, responsible for the development of the new Class 8 truck, located in Portland, Oregon. (Portland Oregon). The company was working on a "SuperTruck" that was set by the US Department of Energy to encourage the development of new technologies to improve the fuel economy of medium and heavy trucks.
For this purpose, Tesla has been involved in many engineers who have participated in the Daimler truck project.
Guillen also led the development of Daimler's container freight train product, the Cascadia truck, making it the best-selling 8-stage semi-trailer truck. He has extensive experience in the development of semi-trailer truck Cascadia and pure electric vehicle Model S, and has a unique personal advantage in the development of all-electric semi-trailer trucks.
There are also many challenges in developing battery-powered heavy-duty trucks, such as: car weight, charging and energy capacity. How Tesla will deal with it, let us wait and see.
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