Tesla delivers electric semis to PepsiCo at Nevada factory
Tesla has delivered its first electric semis to PepsiCo more than three years after Elon Musk said the company would start making the trucks
By AP News
Published - Dec 01, 2022, 09:07 PM ET
Last Updated - Jun 23, 2023, 08:56 AM EDT
DETROIT (AP) — Tesla delivered its first electric semis to PepsiCo Thursday, more than three years after Elon Musk said his company would start making the trucks.
Musk drove one of three Tesla Semis in front of a crowd inside the factory. One was white, one was painted with a Pepsi logo, and another with Frito-Lay colors.
PepsiCo, which is based in Purchase, New York, is taking part in a zero-emissions freight project at a Frito-Lay facility in Modesto, California. That project is being funded by a $15.4 million clean-freight technology grant from the California Air Resources Board that includes 15 Tesla battery-electric tractors and other electric- and natural-gas powered trucks.
