Tesla has produced the first Semi truck off its new high-volume production line at Gigafactory Nevada, moving the long-delayed electric hauler from pilot builds into volume manufacturing. The company shared an image of the truck on its official Tesla Semi account on X.
Volume production is now underway at the dedicated 1.7-million-square-foot factory, a milestone for a vehicle first unveiled in 2017. Tesla originally promised production in 2019, then pushed the target to 2020, 2021 and 2022 before delivering a handful of Semi units to PepsiCo in late 2022. Those early trucks were hand-built on a pilot line, and Tesla spent the next three years refining the design and cutting roughly 1,000 lbs from the truck.
The latest step matters because Tesla is finally trying to turn the Semi into a real commercial product rather than a demonstration vehicle. In February, the company revealed final production specs, saying the Standard Range Semi has 325 miles of range at full 82,000-lb gross combination weight and the Long Range version can go 500 miles. Tesla quoted about $260,000 for the Standard Range truck and $290,000 for the 500-mile model, while saying the factory is designed for annual capacity of 50,000 trucks.
Tesla also said the Semi uses 4680 battery cells made in the same complex at Gigafactory Nevada, along with an 800-kW tri-motor drivetrain producing 1,072 hp. Both trims support 1.2-MW Megacharger speeds, which Tesla says can restore 60% of range in roughly 30 minutes. The company opened its first Megacharger station in Ontario, California, and has mapped 66 Megacharger locations across 15 states.
The market around the Semi has moved while Tesla was still getting ready. Daimler’s Freightliner eCascadia and Volvo’s electric trucks are shipping in limited numbers, and Volvo is widely viewed as the global leader with thousands of electric trucks already delivered. Tesla, by contrast, has spent years catching up after a development cycle that slipped far beyond its original timetable.
That lag is also visible in public demand in California. In the state’s Clean Truck & Bus Voucher program, the Tesla Semi accounted for 965 of 1,067 applications between January 2025 and February 2026, while Daimler, PACCAR and Volvo combined received fewer than 100 applications during the same period. New entrants are still trying to build momentum too: Alyath is preparing to unveil a Tesla Semi as a Service model at ACT Expo on May 4, and MDB launched a three-week freight pilot using the truck at Southern California ports.
For Tesla, the first truck off the line answers the basic question that hung over the project for years: whether the Semi would ever reach full-scale production. It now has.