Tesla obtained 10 orders for its Class 8 Semi from MHX Leasing LLC (MHX), a full-service logistics operator in California. The Tesla Semis will probably be used as a part of MHX’s efforts to electrify its fleet of trucks within the South Coast Air High quality Administration District. 

Along with the Tesla Semis, MHX may also be buying two Tesla Megachargers for its MHX-Napa Fontana distribution facility in Fontana, California. The Megachargers might be used to cost the Tesla Semis’ batteries at a tempo that may be similar to when an EV makes use of an everyday Tesla Supercharger.

To buy the Tesla Semis, MHX sought funding from the Cellular Supply Air Air pollution Discount Overview Committee’s (MSRC) Zero & Close to-Zero-Emission Trucking-to-Warehouse, Distribution, & Intermodal Services grant program. The MSRC finally awarded MHX $1.9 million to buy the all-electric Class 8 vehicles. 

MHX has not indicated if the $1.9 million funding will probably be used for the Tesla Semis solely or if the quantity additionally corresponds to the prices of constructing the 2 Megachargers. Tesla presently lists the Semi’s base 300-mile variant with a $150,000 value, whereas the automobile’s long-range 500-mile model is listed with a $180,000 value.

The Tesla Semi’s Megachargers are essential to the rollout of the Class 8 all-electric vehicles. Throughout his look on the Joe Rogan Podcast in February, Elon Musk confirmed that the Tesla Semi could be geared up with a 500 kWh battery pack. That’s about 5 instances the dimensions of the batteries used within the firm’s flagship autos just like the Tesla Mannequin X Efficiency. Charging the Semi’s battery would require chargers whose output far exceeds that of Tesla’s Supercharger V3 community. 

The specs of the Tesla Semi’s Megacharger haven’t but been introduced, although hypothesis among the many electrical automobile group means that the fast chargers could have an output equal to a number of Supercharger V3 stations mixed. In 2019 when Tesla submitted its charging commonplace for electrical vehicles to CharIN, the business physique behind the Mixed Charging System (CCS) commonplace. Tesla’s submission hinted at a charging system that would present an output over 1 MW. 

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