Tesla Semi truck unveil & test ride set for Oct 26th !

fj12ryder wrote:

time2roll wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:

Dadoffourgirls wrote:
where is the semi?

I'm listening, but hearing nothing but crickets. But after all it's only been 4 years. :)

That is because those crickets are busy building the factory in TX. And Semi seems to have been pushed to come after ModelY & CT at the plant under construction.

Maybe they could have been upfront from the beginning, and explained it will be several years before the semi is available. But I don't remember ever hearing that. What I heard was Next Year, Next Year, ad infinitum. And of course "It's just around the corner".

Delays in new projects are common. Just look at anything done by Boeing or led by the military. Tesla also seems to have underestimated the demand for the Models S and Y and is pouring resources into making more of them. In the past year Tesla has nearly doubled their market share at the expense of nearly every other automaker on the planet. Nobody can do everything at once.

We all know that nobody on this forum has a Tesla semi on order and this entire thread is just about satisfying our personal interests in new technology. So, most of the griping about delays with the semi are really just people using any excuse to criticize Tesla. There are a multitude of reasons for people not employed by Tesla to fear for their jobs as Tesla disrupts a lot of industries around the globe. This could be the motivation for the griping. Jobs in jeopardy go beyond manufacturing. Since Tesla doesn't advertise most media jobs are threatened, dealerships are threatened, car parts businesses are threatened and some people are just emotionally attached to ICE vehicles.

Now, there are several people on this forum that have orders in for the Cybertruck and they have valid reason to complain about the delays. But they don't seem to feel the need to complain about it here. I think that on both the Semi and the Cybertruck the delays will help us see more developed technology and overall better packages than if they had been rushed through.

I am not taking a side, I am going to see where the technology goes. I do have a little bit of personal interest in that I live near a highway and am looking forward to not hearing ICE powered trucks going by. I wonder if people buying the new Harley electric motorcycles are going to find a way to make them as loud and obnoxious as the ICE powered ones.