[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-tesla-semi-finally-enters-mass-production-nine-years-late":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},7984,"tesla-semi-finally-enters-mass-production-nine-years-late","Tesla Semi Finally Enters Mass Production, Nine Years Late","Tesla starts building its Semi truck at scale, but the real bottleneck is the charging infrastructure fleets will need to actually use it.","Tesla just started mass-producing the electric semi truck it first showed off in 2017 - but building the trucks may turn out to be the easy part.\n\nAt an invite-only, livestreamed event in Sparks, Nevada, Tesla announced that the Semi has entered high-volume production, nearly nine years after the concept debuted on stage in late 2017. A handful of fleet managers, all men, walked across the stage to be publicly thanked for their orders while techno music played. Musk skipped the event - his second consecutive vehicle debut missed in a row - because he was attending a White House state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. In a pre-taped video, he called the Semi \"a driver's truck\" and \"a sports car in truck form.\"\n\nMusk has spent the past year telling investors Tesla is really a robotics and autonomous-driving company, chasing a $20 trillion valuation - nearly four times Nvidia's current market value. Shipping an actual delivery truck to actual trucking fleets is a reminder that Tesla still runs an old-fashioned manufacturing business, one where success depends on infrastructure Tesla doesn't fully control: the heavy-duty chargers fleets need to keep these trucks running routes, not just parked at a factory event.\n\nA truck that took nine years to reach mass production isn't exactly evidence that the charging network needed to support it will arrive any faster.","[\"tesla\",\"electric-trucks\",\"ev-infrastructure\",\"elon-musk\"]","2026-09-26T10:45:09.000Z","2026-09-26T17:06:05.991Z","2026-09-26T17:06:11.679Z","published",null,[],"general",[26,27,28,29],"tesla","electric-trucks","ev-infrastructure","elon-musk",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"Ars Technica","https:\u002F\u002Farstechnica.com\u002Fcars\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fteslas-big-electric-truck-faces-an-even-bigger-infrastructure-challenge\u002F",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,52,57,62,66,71,76,81,86,91,94,99],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",4631,"2026-09-26T16:59:00.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",750,"2026-09-26T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Policy","policy",395,"2026-09-26T16:41:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Deals","deals",260,"2026-09-26T09:00:00.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Hardware","hardware",185,"2026-09-25T15:00:22.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":56},"Science","science",144,{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",135,"2026-09-26T14:30:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":73,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Software","software",90,"2026-09-25T20:55:00.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",84,"2026-09-26T04:20:58.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Startups","startups",76,"2026-09-25T18:33:59.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Gaming","gaming",48,"2026-09-25T18:35:21.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":24,"count":89,"latest_published_at":93},"General","2026-09-26T17:02:42.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":96,"count":97,"latest_published_at":98},"Reviews","reviews",30,"2026-09-24T20:07:31.000Z",{"name":100,"slug":101,"count":102,"latest_published_at":103},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]