Latest job listings present that Tesla is transferring forward with its long-delayed plans for its electrical Semi truck, an initiative it first unveiled in 2017.

Three current job listings name for workers to work on “Semi-Truck manufacturing traces” in Sparks, Nevada. That is the place Tesla already makes batteries for its electrical autos, in partnership with Panasonic.

Tesla announced the Semi in November 2017, and stated on the time that it might ship the vans to clients in about two years. At the moment, the corporate stated it might promote a 300-mile vary model of the Semi for $150,000, and a 500-mile vary model for $180,000, and that the vans would go from 0-60 miles per hour in 5 seconds with out cargo, or 0-60 in 20 seconds with an 80,000 pound load.

After taking reservations for the vans from corporations corresponding to Anheuser-Busch, DHL Group, PepsiCo, Satisfaction Group and Walmart, Tesla introduced Semi manufacturing delays throughout a third-quarter earnings name in 2019, and once more in April 2020.

In June 2020, Musk despatched an e-mail to all employees at Tesla that known as for “quantity manufacturing” of the Semi.

“It is time to go all out and convey the Tesla Semi to quantity manufacturing. It has been in restricted manufacturing up to now, which has allowed us to enhance many points of the design.” Musk additionally stated in that memo, “Manufacturing of the battery and powertrain would happen at Giga Nevada, with many of the different work most likely occurring in different states.”

However within the firm’s third-quarter 2020 monetary submitting, Tesla solely talked about its Semi initiative twice, saying it was “in growth,” and noting U.S. places for Semi manufacturing had been but to be decided.

Extra just lately, in an interview on the European Convention on Batteries November 24, 2020, Musk boasted that Tesla was aiming for a Semi that might go even additional on a single cost than initially promised, saying “You would take the vary, for long-range trucking, simply as much as 800 kilometers and we see a path over time to get to 1,000 kilometer vary with a heavy responsibility truck.”

The corporate has a couple of prototype Semi vans which have been in operation for over a yr. However Musk has not disclosed when full-fledged manufacturing of the Semi, or longer vary batteries for it, may start.

At present, Tesla is taking $20,000 refundable reservations to order a Semi. (It initially required $5,000 per reservation.) The bottom value for a 300-mile vary model is listed at $150,000, and for a 500-mile vary at $180,000. Potential clients also can order a “Founders Sequence” Semi for $200,000.

In the meantime, Daimler is in small-scale manufacturing with its heavy responsibility eCascadia electric trucks within the U.S., and Quebec-based Lion Electric has plans for a SPAC, a brand new U.S. manufacturing unit, and has inked a deal to ship as much as 2,500 battery-powered electrical vans to Amazon over the subsequent 5 years.

Traders will probably press Tesla for particulars on the standing of its Semi program on its This fall 2020 earnings name on Jan. 27.

Tesla didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.