{"id":131117,"date":"2021-02-14T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=131117"},"modified":"2021-02-14T19:28:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T00:28:05","slug":"tesla-semi-to-have-500-kwh-battery-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tesla-semi-to-have-500-kwh-battery-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Semi to have 500-kWh battery pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftesla-semi-to-have-500-kwh-battery-pack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=131117&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2372132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2372132\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2372132\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-875152628-660x437.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk unveils the new &quot;Semi&quot; electric Truck to buyers and journalists on November 16, 2017 in Hawthorne, California, near Los Angeles. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ Veronique DUPONT (Photo credit should read VERONIQUE DUPONT\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"660\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2372132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk unveiled the new \u201cSemi\u201d electric Truck to buyers and journalists on November 16, 2017 in Hawthorne, California, near Los Angeles. (Photo by VERONIQUE DUPONT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 4:27 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, February 14, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the battery pack sizes for the company\u2019s highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/semi?redirect=no\">Semi trucks<\/a>. In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Musk explained the standard Semi will have a range of 300 miles, and cost upwards of of $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are other options including a more expensive truck with a longer range. Tesla is planning to offer a Semi with a range of 500 miles for $180,000, this version is the one that is closest to the model Musk described at the Semi\u2019s unveiling in 2017.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2372133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2372133\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2372133\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-875152678-660x437.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk steps out of the new &quot;Semi&quot; electric Truck during the unveiling for buyers and journalists on November 16, 2017 in Hawthorne, California, near Los Angeles. \/ AFP PHOTO \/ Veronique DUPONT (Photo credit should read VERONIQUE DUPONT\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"660\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2372133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk stepped out of the new \u201cSemi\u201d electric Truck during the unveiling for buyers and journalists on November 16, 2017 in Hawthorne, California, near Los Angeles. (Photo by VERONIQUE DUPONT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSince the vast majority of routes are under 250 miles, it means that you can go to your destination and back, even if your destination has no charger,\u201d Musk stated.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla is planning to start producing the trucks later this year at a facility in Texas, which is currently under construction. The company projects they will be able to produce around 2,500 trucks by 2022.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/dr-gottlieb-biden-must-work-harder-to-battle-covid-19\/\">Dr. Gottlieb: Biden Must Work Harder To Battle COVID-19<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893438,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6736,6737,4334,6738,6735,6734],"class_list":["post-131117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-500-kwh","tag-battery","tag-have","tag-pack","tag-semi","tag-tesla"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}