Dan Priestley

Like we, y-you and I kinda-- You were actually ahead of us.

You got in the truck before we did, but we were the first to talk to, um, Dan Priestley, the head of Semi.

And it was like being thrown from, like, the refrigerator right into, like, the oven.

Like we were, I was, like, not prep- I was like, "Oh, w-what's happening now?"

Yeah, and same pants and same shoes.

Dang, I'm predictable.

You are.

You have a uniform.

And also, the Tucson just, um, um, got unveiled and I forgot to upload my Short.

[laughs]

Dang.

3:15 was the, uh... [laughs]

The site is in Sparks, Nevada, near Reno.

Dan Priestley is Tesla's director of semi truck engineering, and he says the production ramp will create more than 3000 jobs in the state.

Tesla unveiled the semi-truck in 2017 and began limited deliveries in late 2022.

The first truck from the high-volume line was completed in April.

No specific volumes for each manufacturer were released, but as the primary manufacturer, Tesla is expected to account for the majority of the 2,500-truck order." So I guess probably at least 1,300 of them.

Quote, "The Tesla Semi is designed for lower cost per mile operations than diesel," said Dan Priestley, director of the Tesla Semi program.

"ZET Scale's goals are exciting because they take the operational cost advantage and predictability that electricity provides and amplifies it at scale.

We are proud to have been the primary selection in this RFP and look forward to giving shippers and carriers a new competitive edge." End quote.

I will say I thought it was an excellent presentation in terms of the, the density of material.

Like, it was really targeted at the fleet operators, the people that are gonna be buying these things.

And you heard Dan Priestley there, the head of the Tesla Semi program, and Lars Moravy, friend to Ride the Lightning and Tesla's chief engineer.

They did a great job on that presentation, and I just love how they went through all of the improvements and changes they've made since building those initial prototypes in 2017, and then building the pilot fleet that PepsiCo and some others had been operating since.

Man, what is Lars's last name? Hold on one second.

Lars Moravi and Dan Priestley,

they're the two that are presenting at this event.

Elon did do a intro video, and that's the one we're going to start off with, but which he didn't do as far as I know at the CyberCab event.

We should probably start with Tesla Semi.

So Dan Priestley, semi-leader Tesla on hand, talk about rollout timelines and specs and charging.

I'll quickly run through the numbers unless you've got them on screen that you want to show.

We've talked about it before.