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Considering everyone tends to point out the Achilles heel of EV trucks is the high kerb weight limiting the tonnage of useful cargo, I find it really funny that their premier touted customer is Frito-Lay, whose products are universally referred to as bags of air.



Did a quick search. Diesel Semis' curb weight ranges b/w 10000lbs-25000lbs. The 10000lbs one may not be comparable in performance/range to Tesla Semi so keep that in mind.

Tesla Semi based on the estimate in the article, is about 27000lbs.


Though their other launch customer is Pepsi whose products are cans of water.


Just to point out the obvious, Pepsi and Frito-Lay are owned by the same company, PepsiCo.




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