Posted on 06/16/2022 12:22:45 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
The Tesla Semi is still being tested on the grounds of Frito Lay’s factory in Modesto, California, and employees at the facility say they have been told company use is “coming soon.”
Frito Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo., was set to receive the first 15 Semi units from Tesla late last year as the automaker reportedly started producing the vehicle at Gigafactory Nevada. However, the date was then pushed back to early 2022, but deliveries never took place. CEO Elon Musk then clarified that Tesla would not be releasing any additional products in 2022 due to market conditions and parts shortages, which would have the company focusing on the manufacturing of its mass-market vehicles, the Model 3 and Model Y.
PepsiCo. has an order for 100 total Tesla Semi units. The company said in late 2019 that the Semi, along with Tesla’s Solar and battery storage products, would help the company significantly decrease the amount of carbon emissions it produces during day-to-day operations.
However, new developments out of the Modesto Frito Lay facility show that the company may be preparing for the imminent inclusion of the Semi into its corporate fleet. A Teslarati reader familiar with the Frito Lay site, who wished to be identified as “Ricardo,” sent photographs of the Semi testing around the facility.
Ricardo said the Semi has been at the facility for the entire week, and other employees at the plant have indicated the all-electric truck will be “coming soon,” meaning it could be added to the company’s fleet sooner than many think.
Frito Lay did not immediately respond to our request for comment.
Tesla also was testing the Semi’s Megacharger, a Supercharger specially designed for the class-8 truck. Frito Lay now has a series of four Megachargers, one more than what was spotted there in January by The Kilowatts, so the expansion is ongoing.
The Semi was spotted on two other instances this week testing on public roads, but Tesla has done this routinely with the vehicle for several years. Spotting a Semi at Frito Lay invokes slightly more excitement due to the company’s massive order for the truck and the fact that deliveries were scheduled for six months ago but never occurred. With more Megachargers being added to the facility as well, perhaps Tesla is working toward producing the Semi in limited volumes for some of its clients in a potential redirection of company goals for 2022. While this is unlikely due to parts shortages and an already-lengthy order bank for its passenger vehicles, Frito Lay is confident the Semi is “coming soon.”
Frito Lay has an additional Megacharger on site.
It can pull two full-sized trailers - one for the cargo and one for the battery. :)
A tow truck will accompany the Tesla semi wherever it goes.
with a full load of half full bags of chips the truck was still overloaded (this is a joke)
plug in all those trucks at night and I bet the grid says f%%# this and shuts down.
wiki: "Doritos (/dəˈriːtoʊz/) is an American brand of flavored tortilla chips produced since 1964 by Frito-Lay..."
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A tow truck will accompany the Tesla semi wherever it goes.
We ate “Wise” potato chips that came in huge tin cans. We occasionally ate Fritos which were invented in 1932. Doritos were the new kid on the block in 1964. I still think of them as the “new” snack.
Light weight product....might make sense for that.
Can’t they just run trucks with the recycled oil from the fryers?
They’re hell bent on choking off the power grid.
For short hauls, like factory to warehouse, it would be good.
At the seaports, with their stiff environmental regulations, it will do well to haul cargo from the port to a nearby facility where diesel trucks can take over.
The batteries are highly flammable and very toxic. Like, the amount on the head of a pin will kill you if placed on your skin.
It should have a hazmat truck with it.
Internal combustion on ANY fuel is a no-no to the wokesters.
Most efficient if a load of ingredients fills the empty trailer on the return trip.
Electric cars/trucks do not have enough range with a heavy load.
We had Hiland Potato chips. Plants in Davenport, Des Moines and Omaha (maybe Council Bluffs). Now long gone. Their slogan was “The chippiest chips around!”
I remember the first Doritos that I had were the Taco Flavored ones. The Nacho Cheese were introduced a bit later, as I recall.
That was smart.
Doritos were the new kid on the block in 1964. I still think of them as the “new” snack.
Some things never get old. Funny that there's a huge concept across Christianity known as the "age of grace". (Okay, as everyone already knows... "she passed away 30 years ago")
See? Truth really is stranger than fiction. Talk about timing. Doritos are 58 years old this year, and that *is* the age of grace (the numeric sum of חן chen, Hebrew for grace, which reverses to נח, Noah.)
It's all very interesting:
The name of Noach (nun-chet) is the word “favor” reversed (chet-nun). The word grace and Noach, with a gematria of 58, form a mirror image of each other,I'm not going off on a tangent because at this very time, when Doritos is 58, the Doritos website has some strange reversal stuff ("Live from the upside-down") -- their link leading to a countdown clock for an "iconic concert".חן = נח = 58
Interestingly, our Parashah doubles his name,
“This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man…”
Genesis 6:9
I only just noticed this, not like I'd otherwise wander to the Doritos site. But hey, Doritos are triangles and I only recently was posting these same concepts about upside-down triangles as a golden hourglass and how they merged together. It's a long post about the scroll of Esther as a flipped over story so people might get irritated, but indeed they are in there! Golden triangles.
Wikipedia sez: "The term dorito is a contraction of Spanish doradito (little fried and golden thing), which is a diminutive of dorado (fried and golden thing). "
It could be, that ♪ El Dorado ♫ is straight ahead. Classic -- a man with a dream that will never let go.
Gotta live a little!
People just need to look up, because there's much more to life than the things we can see. Summer Triangle.
iconic concert
I wonder if the Go-Gos will cover anything by the Doors?
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A diesel powered tow truck. Oddly there is a place for electrics for commuting short distances as in to work and back, if the price is right for the electric vehicle. Long haul semis, aint gonna happen. It is all about energy density and weight and recharge time. It should also be noted that 80% of electrical power today is generated by fossil fuels.
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