EVWire brief: Dan Priestley gave a presentation about Tesla Semi progress at the ACT Expo 2025. Here’s a video from Kyle and Out of Spec team, and some of our takes below:
The Tesla Semi fleet has cumulatively traveled 7.9 million miles by now.
This includes 26 vehicles with over 100,000 miles on them.
Tesla has 46 Megawatt-level sites under construction for public Semi charging.
Dan did reveal that the Semi will equip a 25-kW electric Power Take-Off (e-PTO) system that will help companies power auxiliary features like refrigeration, hydraulic systems, compressors, and more.
It looks like Dan and the Tesla team might have listened to me pleading to them last year about letting more of the public ride inside the Semi — as yours truly here happened to be one of the first-ever public people to ride along in a driving Tesla Semi late last year — Tesla gave some public Semi test rides at the ACT!
This time around they even allowed to film it: here’s an (unlisted) 6-minute video from Electrek on their Tesla Semi ride-along:
Meanwhile, Business Insider reports Tesla has hired over 1,000 factory workers in Nevada for its Semi program — and we’ve seen at least 73 jobs pop up on Tesla’s careers page.
And Elon recently (finally) mentioning Tesla Semi on FSD on the Q1 call might not be a coincidence either — a new proposal from California DMV would now allow initial testing of self-driving heavy-duty trucks.
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