It has been hailed by Elon Musk as ‘unreal’, but Tesla’s electric truck may have accidentally been revealed on the back of a trailer before its official unveiling later this month.
The image was posted to Reddit by someone who claimed it shows the truck being delivered to ‘an undisclosed place in California where they test Tesla vehicles’ – although they later deleted the image.
The truck’s shape resembles the shadowy rendering Tesla previously teased.
The image was posted to Reddit by someone who claimed it shows the truck being delivered to ‘an undisclosed place in California where they test Tesla vehicles.’
The truck is expected to be a battery-powered heavy-duty vehicle that can travel up to 300 miles on a single charge.
It will be revealed almost a month later than Musk originally suggested, and even now the Tesla CEO emphasises that the date is ‘tentative.’
Musk tweeted: ‘Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride tentatively scheduled for Oct 26th in Hawthorne.
‘Worth seeing this beast in person. It’s unreal.’
The entrepreneur has teased the trucking industry with the prospect of a battery-powered heavy-duty vehicle.
Tesla hopes that such a vehicle could compete with conventional diesels, which can travel up to 1,000 miles on a single tank of fuel.
Tesla’s plans for new electric vehicles including a commercial truck called the Tesla Semi were announced last year.
Tesla hopes that such its vehicle could compete with conventional diesels, which can travel up to 1,000 miles on a single tank of fuel
And in April, Musk said the release of the semi-truck was set for September.
Tesla has been making strides in self-driving technology and implementing it in an electric truck could potentially move it forward in a highly competitive area of commercial transport, also being pursued by Uber and Waymo.
In August, it was discovered that Tesla was developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that could drive itself and move in ‘platoons’ that followed a lead vehicle, according to an email discussion of potential road tests between the car company and the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has revealed that the firm will unveil its all-electric semi truck on October 26
Tesla’s electric big-rig truck could have a working range of 200 to 300 miles to compete with more conventional diesels.