Tesla’s electric semi truck spotted again on its secret road trip

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Where Tesla’s prototype electric Semi — a battery-powered long-haul truck — will go next is anyone’s guess. But in recent days, Elon Musk’s truck was spotted in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A woman who said she’s a Tesla employee posted on her Instagram Friday pictures of the truck and an inside view of the big-rig. She wrote that it was only at the service center for an hour and “they wouldn’t tell us where it was going after this.”

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Anheuser-Busch orders 800 hydrogen-electric trucks from company that just sued Tesla

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Budweiser’s parent company is going electric — and it’s not with the company most synonymous with electric vehicles.

Anheuser-Busch, the beverage company that owns the popular beer, announced Thursday it’s ordering 800 hydrogen-electric, zero-emission semi-trucks from the Nikola Motor Company. 

Yes, that’s the same company that just sued Tesla for $2 billion over what it claims are patent infringements for its semi-truck design. The Tesla Semi is an electric truck with a 300-mile range and a $150,000 price tag. Nikola says its competing hydrogen-electric truck dubbed the One has a 500- to 1,000-mile range. It’s price is unclear, but it has a monthly leasing program reportedly starting at around $5,000 a month. Read more…

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Pepsi one-ups Budweiser brewer by ordering 100 Tesla electric semi trucks

 PepsiCo is the latest company to reveal that it’s placed orders for Tesla’s forthcoming electric semi-truck – and also the company with the largest order so far. The beverage company has ordered 100 of the trucks per Reuters, meaning it’s placed at least a $20,000 deposit for each of those since Tesla rose the downpayment amount for its original $5,000 starting… Read More

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