我是Tesla这里的卡车项目负责人，我非常荣幸地欢迎各位来到洛杉矶。

你们所有人。你们所有人都为促成这场活动并确保Tesla取得成功发挥了非常重要的作用。在座的许多人为销售提供了大量转介绍。非常感谢。

你们那边有很多人帮助了我们的 Trek 项目，向我们提供了反馈，给了我们很多建议，还为 Trek 下了很多预订。所以非常感谢你们的支持。

最后，我要感谢我们在洛杉矶、旧金山湾区以及超级工厂的所有员工，感谢他们为了某件事所付出的全部辛勤努力。

我们作出了很多牺牲，但我想，当你们看到那些漂亮的产品时，你们会同意我的看法，认为这一切都是值得的。我个人对卡车非常有热情。我很幸运，能在那个行业工作很长时间。而且我很自豪地说，我们拥有有史以来最好的卡车。

你们准备好见到它们了吗？

把它们开上来。

想给这些卡车一点时间吗？给这些卡车一点时间。

好了。

好了。欢迎，欢迎，欢迎来到，来到这个，欢迎来到 Tesla Semi 卡车发布会。希望你们喜欢眼前所见。

我要向你们介绍这辆卡车能做的一切。它让我大为震撼。我想它也会让你们大为震撼。先从性能说起。所以，我们想出了一个缩写，我认为它确实描述了这种性能。好吧，这是个技术术语，但让我们通过加速来看看它是什么意思。所以，Tesla 真正在意的一件事是，我们真的非常在意性能。我们想要一辆感觉不可思议、加速表现无与伦比的车。

让我们展示一下卡车。坐在 Tesla 卡车里是什么感觉。这是实时画面。

这就是 Tesla。Tesla Semi 从 0 加速到 60 英里/小时只需 5 秒。

这是卡车单独行驶或挂着拖车时的表现。现在，在最大车辆总重为 £80,000 时，这是在美国公路上所能承载的最大重量。这就是 Tesla Semi 的实时加速表现。左边那个看起来像是没在动的东西是一辆柴油卡车。

给它一点时间。

抱歉让你们觉得无聊。我道歉。

很无聊。我知道。

它最终会到那里的。好了，即使拖着 £80,000 的最大总重，它也能在 20 秒内达到每小时 60 英里，这就是它能做到的。现在，上坡时又怎么样？

好，最好的柴油卡车只能达到每小时 45 英里。在 5% 的坡度上，Tesla Semi 能以每小时 65 英里的速度爬上最高 5% 的坡度，也就是在最大总重下持续保持每小时 65 英里。

这意味着，如果你正，如果你拖着货物翻越落基山脉，或者在某种山地地形上爬坡，你是按英里赚钱的，那么你每英里赚的钱会比驾驶柴油卡车多 50%。这是一个巨大的差别。

现在，人们向我们提出的关于电动卡车的最大问题之一是，嗯，它们能跑多远？因为，嗯，让我们来看看。所以，续航里程为 500 英里。

但 500 英里的续航里程意味着什么？顺便说一下，这是在最大重量下以公路速度行驶 500 英里。所以你的速度大概是每小时 60 英里。

这是最糟糕的情况。但它意味着，因为绝大多数路线，因为绝大多数都不到 250 英里，所以你可以到达目的地再返回。即使你的目的地没有充电设施，你也可以去那里再回来，去那里，在家，不用充电。所以你可以把货物运到荒无人烟的地方，然后再回来。

那么我们是如何做到这一点的？我们采用的方法之一，是把 Tesla 卡车设计成像。普通柴油卡车的设计更像一面谷仓墙，而这是一颗子弹。你可以从风阻系数中看出这一点。Tesla Semi 的风阻系数为 0.36。这是一个非常出色的数字。

作为比较，一辆价值 200 万美元的超级跑车布加迪 Chiron，风阻系数为 0.38。它的风阻系数比超级跑车还要好。

顺便说一下，我们，没错，顺便说一下，你们可以从设计中看出来，我们做到这一点的可能方式是采用子弹形车头。我们还有侧翼，可以贴合你所牵引的任何路径，无论是新拖车还是旧拖车，侧翼都会贴合你所牵引的任何路径，并封闭间隙。所以这，这对风阻系数有着巨大的影响。卡车底部也完全平坦，因此空气可以直接流过。

这些都是你在其他任何卡车上看不到的设计。而且它让我们获得了不可思议的公路续航里程。其中一个关键因素是，我们还配备了 4 台独立电机。每个后轮上都有一台电机，并且配备独立前悬架。所以驾驶这辆卡车极其舒适。

是的。

然后，纯粹是出于兴趣，我们打造了一个 Tesla Semi 的皮卡版本。

这是一辆能装载一辆皮卡的皮卡。

顺便说一下，这个，你可以合法驾驶它。这不应该合法，但你实际上可以用普通驾驶执照合法驾驶它。这有点不对劲，但我喜欢。

现在，驾驶员体验怎么样？驾驶这辆卡车是什么感觉？

这太棒了，因为这辆卡车没有多个挡位。它，没有，你不需要不断换挡。它只有1个，1个挡位。所以它，它，它很平顺。就像驾驶，就像驾驶一辆 Tesla。就好像你驾驶的是 Model S、Model X 或 Model 3。只是它很大。它真的，它超级容易驾驶，而且感觉响应极其灵敏，与你开过的任何卡车都不一样。

而且你拥有的视野也令人难以置信。我们把驾驶员安排在中央，所以驾驶员实际上位于卡车的中央。你所处的位置就像在赛车里一样。

你可以完整地看到道路和周围的一切。

内饰漂亮又宽敞。你可以在里面站起来。它配有冗余屏幕，而且，驾驶它的感觉就是不可思议。这是最棒的感受之一。它太。它比另一辆，比道路上的任何其他卡车都好得无可比拟。你真的必须亲自驾驶，才能明白那种感觉究竟有多好。就像我能驾驶这东西，可我根本不知道该怎么驾驶这个。我是吗？

所以再拍几张，再拍几张内饰照片。

只是让你有个概念。顺便说一下，我们会说，比如。

另外，前面还有一个小行李厢。好吧，我们也把这个加进去。

相比之下。

我不想伤害你们的眼睛，但如今的柴油卡车就是这个样子。里面杂乱地堆着第三方设备。使用起来非常困难。它需要集成、安装。这些东西彼此不通信。非常麻烦。它还有高昂的附加成本。而 Tesla Semi 则包含这一切。每辆卡车都包含这些。一切都能直接使用。

你拿到卡车的那一刻，它什么都有了。

而且它们一与所有车队系统集成，那些对卡车运输业真正重要的东西。那么如今加油是什么样的？如果你在给柴油卡车加油，就会有油气、泄漏、有毒环境，价格还一直变化。而很多人没有意识到的是，实际上，给一辆卡车加满油最多需要15分钟或更长时间。油箱加油时，你必须在那里待上15分钟。

相比之下，给 Tesla 卡车充电时，你可以在出发地或目的地充电。所以卸货的时候，你就可以充电。

所以400英里之所以重要，是因为你最终必须休息。所以，如果你驾驶，如果你驾驶5或6个小时，这差不多就是你愿意连续驾驶的最长时间，因为你必须停下来上厕所、吃点东西，事实上，法律要求你必须停车休息30分钟。所以但是你，如果400英里大约相当于6个多小时，6到7个小时的驾驶时间，这意味着，实际上这意味着，等到你，你结束休息时，卡车已经准备好出发了，你不必等卡车充电。

这意义重大。

而且，由于将会安装 Wallet 的 Tesla Megacharger，就像我们已经在全球安装了超级充电站一样，你们都看过超级充电站地图。它一开始只有少数几个，只有加利福尼亚州的少数几个充电站。现在我们在世界各地都有超级充电站。驾驶 Tesla 乘用车，你将能够去任何地方。Tesla Semi 也会如此。你将能够借助 Tesla Megacharger 网络前往世界上的任何地方。

这意味着我们可以保证电价，因为这些将是由太阳能供电、为 Tesla Powerpack 充电的 Mega charges，是 24,7 保证的低价电力。

而且因为这些大型充电设备由太阳能供电，你的卡车就是靠阳光行驶。好了，安全性呢？现在我说安全性时，我谈的是驾驶员的安全。我也在谈道路上其他车辆的安全。我说的是行人。每个人的安全。

如果有 £80,000 的东西以每小时 60 英里的速度移动，那是非常危险的。我们售出的每辆卡车都会把增强版自动辅助驾驶作为标准配置。好了。

卡车会自动坏掉。

对，你也能读出来。

它会自动坏掉，但实际上也会自动保持车道。所以即使，即使，即使你在卡车里突发医疗状况，卡车也会保持在车道内并逐渐停下来，然后打开危险警示灯。如果它没有听到你的回应，实际上会呼叫紧急服务并叫一辆救护车。它会照顾你，会照顾其他车辆，也会照顾行人。

这是安全性的巨大提升。

关于安全性还有其他几件事。由于采用那个中央位置，你处在一个非常安全的位置。即使你要与另一辆半挂卡车相撞，你也拥有较低的重心，从而带来非常好的操控性。这意味着侧翻的概率大幅降低，因为电池组位于底板中，侧翻风险显著降低。或许最重要的是，折刀现象通常是卡车司机最可怕的噩梦。

如果你身处恶劣条件，如何阻止车辆发生折刀现象？卡车会自动阻止折刀现象，因为每个车轮上都有独立电机，而且它会动态调节每个车轮的扭矩，从而使折刀现象变得不可能。

有了这辆卡车，你最可怕的噩梦就消失了。消失了。再也不用担心它。

悲惨的工作。

可靠性。

可靠性极其重要。卡车就是你的生活。它是你的生意。卡车坏了，你就会让客户失望。那会是糟糕的一天。也可能是糟糕的一周。它可能会在荒郊野外抛锚。那会带来安全问题。

可靠性极其重要。我们投入了大量关注。这让这辆卡车变得极其可靠。因此我们保证，这辆卡车行驶100万英里都不会抛锚。

在不保证它行驶100万英里不会抛锚的情况下，因为它有4台独立电机。这4台电机中即使损失2台，卡车仍然可以继续行驶。事实上，即使4台电机中只有2台在工作，它仍然会是一辆柴油卡车。

这真的不公平。

然后呢，它还有，你知道，也有其他一些优势。刹车。刹车对卡车来说是件大事。你必须让£80,000停下来。这并不容易。需要大量刹车。刹车磨损也很严重。但因为使用电动机，你可以把刹车变成发电机。所以每次刹车时，制动产生的动能都会直接回到电池组中，而不是，而不是磨损刹车片。

所以刹车片基本上能永久使用。你永远都不需要更换刹车片。永远。

所以，是的，没有刹车。永远不用更换刹车片。不必担心变速箱，因为根本没有变速箱。变速箱不会坏。没有排放，没有洗涤器，没有差速器。而且，而且这是我最喜欢的功能。防热核爆炸玻璃。

差不多。我的意思是，很接近。所以，标准玻璃。现在这为什么重要？因为他们看到，看，核爆炸后什么都没留下。那太不可思议了。所以实际上这里重要的是，但它能经受核爆炸，否则你会得到全额退款。

全额退款。

这之所以重要，是因为卡车的挡风玻璃非常大，而且大约每年都会裂一次；如果卡车的挡风玻璃裂了，你就不允许驾驶。所以它实际上会让卡车无法上路。如果你的挡风玻璃裂了，裂了，那就意味着收入损失，只要给客户指出来。那是糟糕的，那是糟糕的一天。而且如果你被困在荒郊野外，要花很长时间才能，才能拿到一块新挡风玻璃。

所以实际上，这个，这个，这个细节，这个细节对于真正从事、了解卡车运输的人来说非常重要。它，它虽小但非常重要。然后，在与卡车连接、了解正在发生什么方面。我们有Tesla应用，可以向你提供卡车的完整信息。这算是很正常的。如果你有Model S或Model X之类的车，我们就像是把这视为理所当然。但对卡车来说，这实际上并不正常。

你可以完整访问卡车的所有信息。你可以进行远程诊断，你可以，你可以看到正在发生什么。预防性维护。卡车实际上会预判它什么时候需要，什么时候需要维护，并提前通知你，而且它会与车队连接。所以，如果你有，试图管理一个由数千辆卡车组成的车队，这也极其重要。所有这些数据都会传进来，你会确切知道正在发生什么。

它真的会帮助你管理卡车运输。说完这些，你们现在可能想知道这要花多少钱？因为Tesla的东西很贵。

但我们意识到，卡车运输的经济性极其重要。如果，如果你有一辆卡车，如果你的每英里成本太高，在经济上就不合理，你就没办法运营。所以我们确实对此考虑了很多；当你把一切都考虑进去，把最低成本、保险成本、维护成本和所有因素都算进去，也就是完整核算后的卡车运输真实成本。一辆柴油卡车每英里的成本将比，比Tesla Semi高20%。

我想说清楚，这是从第一天起，从第一天起，拥有一辆Tesla Semi在经济性上就会胜过柴油卡车。第一天。而且这是，这是最坏的情形。所以实际情况会比这更好。这是，这是，这是最坏情形的比较。这采用了最大的车辆增长。它以每小时60英里的速度行驶，并假定汽油价格为$250。我们保证每千瓦7美分的批发价。

当我把这一点说清楚时。这是真的，这些都是真实数字。而且实际情况只会比这更好。这是最坏的情形。

现在，单独来看，一辆卡车，一辆Tesla卡车，就胜过其他柴油卡车。但如果你有一个车队呢？所以，如果你有卡车，有2辆卡车跟随呢？这样你更像是一名火车司机。事实上，车队技术、跟踪技术，这是我们有信心今天就能做到的事情。比人类驾驶员安全10倍。所以我想说清楚，这是我们现在就能做到的事情。

而且。

那架飞机在哪里？好了。

现在，如果你看看卡车车队的经济性，情况会好得多。

现在，一辆柴油卡车的成本是Tesla Semi的2倍。

所以这意味着，使用一辆柴油卡车不仅是经济自杀。对铁路来说也是经济自杀。它胜过铁路。

所以。而且我认为这真的相当，相当深刻。我们相信，从功能角度看，这款产品在各个方面都更好，在最坏的情形下也能在经济性上战胜柴油卡车。而且在车队情形下能击败铁路。生产将于2019年开始。所以如果你现在订购，2年后拿到卡车的一部分。

好了，

所以这就是Tesla，Tesla Semi。希望你们喜欢刚才看到的内容。

好了，各位，交给你们了。

谢谢。

谢谢。

所以结果发现卡车里装了些货。卡车里有些货。我们想把它运出来。

我们创办Tesla时，我们以一辆跑车创办了Tesla，也就是Tesla Roadster。

就是这样。那个宝贝让我们起步了。它，它是，曾经是，整个公司的基础就是Tesla Roadster。很长时间以来，人们一直问我们，你们什么时候会造一款新的Roadster？我们现在就在造。

而且你知道，有，我不知道你是否看过棒球的电影，但这个，只有一样东西，只有一样东西超越荒谬，那就是格纹。

所以这款 Tesla，全新的 Tesla Roadster 将成为有史以来速度最快的量产车，就这样。

而这是，这是基础款。好吧。这是基础款。我们会谈谈超越基础款的东西。也许明年某个时候。这款基础款，基础款从 0 加速到 60 英里/小时只需 1.9 秒。

好吗？

它会。那，那是最快的。这确实是首次有汽车从 0 加速到 60 英里/小时突破 2 秒。

它会，它会是加速到 100 英里/小时最快的车。加速到 100 英里/小时只需 4.2 秒。

会比，比那边那架喷气式飞机还快

，

它跑四分之一英里只需 8.9 秒。

这将是首次有汽车突破 9 秒。首次有量产车在四分之一英里赛程中突破 9 秒。

这些是，这些全是，这些全都是世界纪录。好吧。这就是我们在原型车上实现的成绩。

我不会说实际最高时速是多少，但超过每小时250英里。

续航。这将配备一个200千瓦时的电池组。

606。这是。这些数字听起来很疯狂，但都是真的。600、620英里的续航里程。那是1000公里的续航里程。这将是电动汽车首次突破1000公里。量产电动汽车将能以高速公路速度单次充电行驶超过1000公里。

但你将能够以高速公路速度从洛杉矶开到旧金山再返回，而不必充电。

这样做的目的，就是要狠狠击败汽油车。

驾驶。驾驶汽油跑车会感觉像是一台配着乳蛋饼的蒸汽机。

这东西将有3台电机，所以是全轮驱动。前面1台电机，后面2台。我们能够进行扭矩转向。我说把我们的电池组转成10000牛顿米的扭矩，如果你知道那是什么意思的话。这太蠢了。

它也是一辆4座车。

是的。

所以它是2加2。2加2。好吧。你不能把大块头的人放在后排座椅上，但你可以放，好吧，一个被挤着的大块头，或者一个能坐进后排的小个子。

所以。但是它是一辆4座车。不像是，这就是4个座位。它是敞篷车。所以车顶可以拆卸，而且有大量储物空间。所以你真的可以开它去某个地方，带上行李，带上任何你想带的东西，并且仍有充足的储物空间。能载4个人，像一辆真正的汽车。并不只是硬塞进去。所以它在拥有4个座位的同时具备所有这些功能。

以及上市。预计这将在2020年上市，所以。

是的，正是如此。那么你愿意上来吗？你愿意上来并且。

好，上来吧。来。

吧。

I'm the leader of the truck program here at Tesla, and it's my great pleasure to welcome you here in Los Angeles.

All of you. All of you have played a very important role in making this event possible and ensuring the success of Tesla. Many of you here have given lots of referrals for the sales. Thank you very much.

Many of you over there have helped us on the Trek program, have given us feedback, have given us a lot of advice, and have placed a lot of reservations for the Trek. So thank you very much for your support.

And finally, I want to thank all of our employees here in Los Angeles, in the Bay Area and at the Gigafactory for all their hard work for something.

We make a lot of sacrifices, but I think you will agree with me that it's worth it when you see those beautiful products. I'm personally very passionate about trucks. I've been lucky to work in that industry for a long time. And I'm proud to say that we have the best trucks ever.

Are you ready to see them?

Bring them on.

Want to give the trucks a moment? Give the trucks a moment.

All right.

All right. Welcome, welcome, welcome to the, to the welcome to the Tesla Semi Truck event. I hope you like what you see.

I'm going to tell you about everything that this truck can do. It blows my mind. I think it'll blow yours. Starting with performance. So an acronym we came up with that I think really describes the performance. Well, Technical term, but let's show you what that means in acceleration. So one thing that we care about, Tesla, is we really care about performance. We want a vehicle that feels incredible, that accelerates like nothing else.

Let's show what the truck. What it's like to be in a Tesla truck. This is real time.

So that's the Tesla. The Tesla Semi will go 0 to 60 in five seconds.

That's by itself or with a trailer. Now, at £80,000 max gross vehicle weight, that's the most amount of weight you can carry on a US Highway. This is the real time acceleration of a Tesla semi. That on the left, the thing that looks like it's not moving is a diesel truck.

Give it a moment.

I'm sorry to bore you. I apologize.

Boring. I know.

Eventually it'll get there. All right, even with £80,000 pulling max gross, getting 60 miles an hour in 20 seconds, that's what it can do. Now, what about up a hill?

Okay, the best diesel trucks can only do 45 miles an hour. Up a 5% grade Tesla Semi can do 65 miles an hour up to 5% grade, That's 65 miles an hour continuous at max gross.

What this means is that if you've got, if you're pulling a load over the Rockies or some mountainous terrain up a hill, you're earning per mile, you're earning 50% more per mile than you are in a diesel truck. That's a gigantic difference.

Now one of the biggest questions we've been asked about electric trucks is, well, how far can they go? Because, well, let's find out. So, 500 mile range.

But what does a 500 mile range mean? And by the way, it's 500 miles at maximum weight at highway speed. So you're doing like 60 miles an hour.

That's a worst case scenario. But what it means is that since because the vast majority of routes, because the vast majority are under 250 miles, it means that you can go to your destination and back. Even if your destination has no charging, you can go there and back, go there at home without recharging. So you can deliver a load out to the middle of nowhere and come back.

Now how do we achieve this? One of the ways we do this is we designed the Tesla truck to be like. So whereas a normal diesel truck is designed more like a barn wall, this is a bullet. You can see this in the drag coefficient. So the Tesla Semi has a 0.36 drag coefficient. This is a really good number.

As by way of comparison, a Bugatti Chiron, which is a 2 million dollar supercar, has a 0.38 drag coefficients. This has got a better drag coefficient than a supercar.

And by the way, we, yeah, by the way, you can see that in the design, the probably we achieve that is with the bullet shaped nose. We also have side flaps that map to the whatever trail you're pulling, whether it's a new trailer or old trailer, the side flaps will map to whatever trail you're pulling and close the gap. So this, this makes a huge difference to the drag coefficient. The bottom of the truck is also completely flat, so the air can flow straight through.

These are things that you don't see on any other trucks. And it gives us incredible highway range. One of the key factors, we also have four independent motors. There's a motor on each of the rear wheels and an independent front suspension. So it's incredibly comfortable to drive this truck.

Yeah.

And then we just for interest sake, we created a pickup truck version of the Tesla semi.

It's a pickup truck that can carry a pickup truck.

By the way, this is, you can Legally drive that. It shouldn't be legal, but you will actually be able to legally drive that with a normal driver's license. It's kind of wrong, but I like it.

Now, what about the driver experience? What does it feel like to drive this truck?

That's amazing because this truck has no gears. It's, there's no, you're not constantly shifting gears. It has one, one gear. So it's, it's, it's smooth. It's like driving, it's like driving a Tesla. It's as though you're driving a Model S or Model X or Model 3. It's just big. It's really, it's super easy to drive and it feels incredibly responsive, unlike any truck that you've ever driven.

And the point of view that you have is also incredible. We put the driver in the center, so the driver is actually in the center of the truck. You're positioned like you're in a race car.

You have complete visibility of the road and all the surroundings.

It's a beautiful, spacious interior. You can stand up inside. It's got redundant screens and it's, it just feels incredible to drive this. It's one of the best feelings. It's so. It's incomparably better than another, than any other truck on the road. You really have to drive it to understand just how good that feels. Like I can drive this thing and I have no idea how to drive this. Am I?

So take a few, take a few more shots of the interior.

Just gives you a sense. By the way, we'll say like.

Also there's a little trunk in the front. All right, we'll throw that in there.

As compared to.

I don't want to hurt your eyes, but that's what a diesel truck looks like today. It's a clutter of third party devices. It's very difficult to use. It requires integration, installation. These things don't talk to each other. It's a pain in the neck. It has significant add on costs. Whereas the Tesla semi, all of this is included. It's included in every truck. Everything just works.

The moment you get the truck, it's got everything.

And as soon as they integrate with all the fleet systems, the things that are really important to the trucking industry. So what about fueling today? If you're fueling a diesel truck, you've got fumes, spills, toxic environment, prices change all the time. And what a lot of people don't realize is it actually, it takes up to 15 minutes or more to actually fill a truck. You have to sit there for 15 minutes while the tank gets filled.

As compared to charging a Tesla truck, you can charge at your origin or destination. So while you're unloading your cargo, you can charge.

So the reason 400 miles is important is because you have to take take a break eventually. So if you drive for, if you drive for five or six hours, which is that's about as much as you want to be driving continuously because you have to stop for bathroom break, get a bite to eat, in fact, you're legally required to stop for 30 minutes. So but you, if 400 miles is like six plus six to seven hours of driving, which means, what this means in practice is that by the time you are, you're done with your break, the truck is ready to go, you will not be waiting for your truck to charge.

It's a big deal.

And because of the Tesla mega chargers that will be installing Wallet, just like we've got superchargers installed worldwide, you've seen the supercharger map. It started off with just a few, with just a few chargers in California. Now we have superchargers throughout the world. And you'll be able to go anywhere with a Tesla consumer vehicle. The same will be true of the Tesla semi. You'll be able to travel anywhere in the world on the Tesla mega charger network.

And that means we can guarantee the electricity rates because these will be solar powered mega charges that charge to a Tesla power pack is 24,7 guaranteed low electricity.

And because these mega charges are solar powered, your truck is running on sunlight. Okay, What about safety? Now when I say safety, I'm talking about the driver safety. I'm also talking about other cars on the road. I'm talking about pedestrians. Safety for everyone.

If you've got £80,000 moving at 60 miles an hour, it's a very dangerous thing. Every truck we sell will have enhanced autopilot as standard. Okay.

The truck will automatically break.

Yeah, you can read it too.

It'll automatically break, but it will actually automatically lane keep as well. So even if, even if, even if you're in the truck and you have a medical emergency, the truck will stay in lane and gradually come to a halt and put on the emergencies. If it doesn't hear a response from you will actually call emergency services and get an ambulance. It's going to take care of you, it's going to take care of other cars, it's going to take care of pedestrians.

This is a massive increase in safety.

A few other things about safety. It's got with that central position, you're in a very safe position. Even if you were to collide with another semi, you have a low center of gravity that gives you really good handling. Means the probability of a rollover is massively reduced because the battery pack is in the floor pan and rollover risk is dramatically reduced. And perhaps most importantly, jackknifing is usually the worst nightmare of a trucker.

How do you stop your vehicle from jackknifing if you're in difficult conditions, the truck will automatically stop jackknifing because it's got independent motors on each wheel and it'll dynamically adjust the torque on each wheel so that jackknifing is impossible.

Your worst nightmare is gone with this truck. Gone. Never have to worry about it.

Miserable job.

Reliability.

Reliability is incredibly important. Truck is your life. It's your business. Truck breaks down, you're disappointing your customers. It's a horrible day. It could be a horrible week. It could break down in the middle of nowhere. That's safety issues.

Reliability is incredibly important. We're putting massive attention. It's making this truck incredibly reliable. And that's why we are guaranteeing that this truck will not break down for a million miles.

Without guaranteeing it won't break down for a million miles because it has four independent motors. You can lose two of those four motors and the truck will still keep going. In fact, even if you only have two of the four motors active, it'll still be a diesel truck.

It's not fair, really.

So then it has, you know, there's a few other benefits as well. Brakes. Brakes are a big deal for trucks. You got to stop £80,000. It's not easy. That's a lot of brakes. That's a lot of brake wear. But because with an electric motor, you can turn the brakes into generators. So every time you brake, that kinetic energy of braking goes right straight back into the battery pack instead of, instead of wearing down a brake pad.

So brake pads basically last forever. You never need to replace brake pads ever. Ever.

So, yeah, no brake. No brake pad changes ever. Don't have to worry about transmission because there's no transmission. Transmission can't break. There are no emissions, no scrubbers, no differentials. And, and this is the feature I like best. Thermonuclear explosion proof glass.

Close. I mean, it's close. So standard glass. Now why is this important? Because they see, look, nothing survived a nuclear explosion. That was incredible. So actually what's important here is but survives a nuclear explosion or you get a Full refund.

Full refund.

The reason this is important is because truck windshields are huge and they crack about once a year and if the truck windshield is cracked, you're not allowed to drive. So it actually, it's truck off road. If you have a cracked, cracked windshield and that means lost revenue, just point to customers. It's a terrible, it's a terrible day. And if you're stuck in the middle of nowhere, take ages to get to get a new windshield.

So actually this, this, this detail, this detail matters a lot to someone who really is, understands trucking. It's, it's small but very important. Then we have in terms of connectivity to truck, understanding what's going on. We have the Tesla app that gives you full information about your truck. This is sort of normal. It's like we take it for granted with if you've got a Model S or Model X, something like that. But this is not normal actually for trucks.

You have full access to all your truck information. You've got remote diagnostics, you can, you can see what's going on. Preventative maintenance. The truck will actually anticipate when it needs to be when it needs maintenance and inform you ahead of time and it connects with the fleet. So if you've got, trying to manage a fleet of thousands of trucks, this is also incredibly important. All this data is coming in, you know exactly what's going on.

It's going to really help you manage your trucking. Now having said all this, you're probably wondering how much is this going to cost? Because Tesla stuff is expensive.

But we realized that trucking, the economics of trucking matter tremendously. If, if you have a truck, if your cost per mile is too high, it doesn't make economic sense, you can't make it work. So we really thought about this a lot and when you take everything into account, take the least cost, the insurance cost, maintenance, all of the factors, the, the fully accounted for true cost of trucking. A diesel truck will be 20% more expensive than, than a Tesla semi per mile.

I want to be clear, this is from day one, from day one having a Tesla semi will beat a diesel truck on economics. Day one. And this is at, this is a worst case scenario. So it gets better than this. This is the, this is the, this is the worst case scenario comparison. This is taking max vehicle growth. It's going at 60 miles an hour and it's assuming $250 gasoline price. We're guaranteeing a 7 cent kilowatt wholesale price.

When I'm clear about that. This is real, these are real numbers. And it only gets better than this. This is the worst case scenario.

Now, one truck, a Tesla truck, considered by itself beats other diesel trucks. But what if you have a convoy? So what if you have trucks, two trucks following? So you're more like a train driver. In fact, the convoy technology, the tracking technology, this is something that we are confident we can do today. 10 times safer than a human driver. So I want to be clear, this is something we can do now.

And.

Where's that plane? There you go.

Now if you look at the economics of a truck convoy, it gets way better.

Now a diesel truck is twice as expensive as a Tesla semi.

So what this means is it's not just economic suicide to use one diesel truck. It's economic suicide for rail. This beats rail.

So. And that's I think really, quite, quite profound. We're confident that this is a product that is better in every way from a feature standpoint, that wins on economics against diesel trucks in a worst case scenario. And that defeats rail in a convoy scenario. And production begins 2019. So if you order now, get part the truck in two years.

All right,

So that's the Tesla, the Tesla semi. I hope you guys enjoyed what you saw.

All right, guys, take it away.

Thank you.

Thanks.

So it turns out there was some cargo in the truck. There's some cargo in the truck. We thought we'd bring it out.

We started Tesla, we started Tesla with a sports car, Tesla Roadster.

So that's that. That baby got us going. It's, it's the, it was, the foundation of the whole company was the Tesla Roadster. People have asked us for a long time, when are you going to make a new Roadster? We are making it now.

And you know, there's, I don't know if you've watched baseball's movie, but this, there's only thing, there's only one thing that's beyond ludicrous, which is plaid.

So the Tesla, the new Tesla Roadster will be the fastest car, production car ever made, period.

And this is the, this is the base model. Okay. This is the base model. We're going to talk about things beyond base. Maybe next year sometime. This base model, base model will do 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds.

Okay?

It'll. That, that is the fastest. This is really the first time that any car has broken two seconds at zero to 60.

It'll be, it'll be the fastest to 100 miles an hour. 4.2 seconds to 100 miles an hour.

Be faster, faster than that jet over

there,

it'll do the quarter mile in 8.9 seconds.

This will be the first time that any car has broken nine seconds. Any production car has broken nine seconds in a quarter mile.

These are, these are all, these are all world records. Okay. This is what we're achieving in the prototype.

I wouldn't say what the actual top speed is, but it's above 250 miles an hour.

The range. This is going to have a 200 kilowatt hour battery pack.

606. This is. These numbers sound nutty, but they're real. 600, 620 mile range. That's a thousand kilometer range. This will be the first time an electric vehicle breaks a thousand kilometers. A production electric vehicle will travel more than a thousand kilometers, a single charge at highway speed.

But you'll be able to to travel from LA to San Francisco and back at highway speed without recharging.

The point of doing this is to just give the hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars.

Drive. Driving a gasoline sports car is going to feel like a steam engine with a side of quiche.

This thing will have three motors, so it's all wheel drive. One motor in the front, two on the rear. We're able to do torque steering. I said turn our battery pack 10,000 Newton meters of torque, if you know what that means. It's stupid.

It's also a four seater.

Yeah.

So it's a two plus two. Two plus two. Okay. You can't put giant people in the rear seat, but you will put, okay, a giant person squashed or a small person fit in the back.

So. But it's a four seater. It's not like this is four seats. It's convertible. So it's a removable roof and it has tons of storage. So you'll actually travel somewhere, bring luggage, bring whatever you want and have plenty of storage. Carry four people like it's a real car. It's not just crammed in. So it has all that functionality with four seats.

And available. Expecting this to be available in 2020, so.

Yeah, exactly. So would you like to come up? Would you like to come up and.

Okay, coming up. Come.

On.