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Tesla to be its own first electric semi truck customer with cargo route
between Fremont and Gigafactory 1
While orders for the Tesla Semi electric truck are piling up, Tesla’s VP of
Truck programs, Jerome Guillen, confirmed that Tesla will be its own first
customer and that it will use the trucks to carry cargo between its factory
in Fremont, California and its battery factory in Nevada.
Tesla的卡车项目VP, Jerome Guillen, 证实Tesla将会是自己Semi卡车的第一位客户
Semi卡车将被用来运送货物，路线是Fremont工厂与电池工厂之间。
Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously referred to the automaker’s logistic costs to
carry cargo between the two locations as “gigantic”.
Elon Musk以前曾经说过，这两间工厂之间的物流成本非常的巨大。
He even suggested that they are considering building a hyperloop system for
cargo with his Boring Company startup in order to address the issue.
他甚至建议过要考虑利用他的挖洞公司建造一个hyperloop系统来解决这问题。
During a presentation about the new Tesla Semi at the annual conference of
Transport and Logistics in the Netherlands today, Tesla VP of Truck programs
Jerome Guillen confirmed that they will first address the problem by using
their electric semi trucks.
He said:
“Tesla will be the first customer for the truck. We will use our own truck
to carry cargo in the US between our different facilities. We have an
assembly facility in California, the Gigafactory in Nevada, so we will use
our trucks to carry things in-between.”
Tesla卡车项目VP, Jerome Guillen说：
"Tesla将成为这辆卡车的第一位客户。
我们会利用我们的卡车来运送在美国的两个工厂之间的货物。
我们有一个在加州的装配工厂，一个在内华达州的电池工厂，
所以我们会使用我们的卡车在他们之间来运送货物。
It just so happens that the route between the two factories is almost the
perfect example of the capabilities of the semi truck that Tesla claimed
during its presentation last week.
刚好这两间工厂之间的距离是上周发表会演讲时说的完美例子。
The most important claim was a range of 500 miles for a capacity to bring a
full load to a destination 250 miles away, which represents 80% of the market
according to Tesla, and then bring a load back to the original location on
the same charge.
其中最重要的一个宣称是有着500miles的续航里程，可以在满载的状况下到达250miles
外的目的地，然后回到出发点，这可以涵括80%的市场需求，并且是在同一次充电中做到。
According to Google Maps, the shortest route between Tesla Fremont and Tesla
Gigafactory 1 is exactly 258 miles:
根据Google地图显示，这两间工厂的最短距离刚好是258miles。
It should be an excellent showcase of the capabilities of the Tesla Semi and
if Tesla truly achieves the cost of operation savings that they claimed, they
should achieve some important logistic cost savings.
这应该是Tesla Semi功能的一个很好的展示，如果Tesla真的做到了节省那么多他们
所宣示的营运成本的话，他们应该可以在物流这件事情上省下不少钱。
Interestingly, Tesla requested permission to test electric truck prototypes
for platooning and self-driving in Nevada and California earlier this year.
At the Tesla Semi unveiling last week, Tesla confirmed that they had a
platooning technology to reduce the cost of operation to $0.85 per miles with
a three-truck convoy:
It wouldn’t be surprising that they requested to test the vehicles in those
two states exactly for that route that Guillen now confirms will be one of
the first routes to see Tesla’s new semi trucks.
The landscape that they used to showcase the convoy technology in a video
presentation even looks like the terrain around the route between Fremont and
Reno/Sparks, where Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 is located:
We already speculated that Tesla is likely going to be its best own customer
for the program. In California, Tesla operates its own truck fleet of about
100 trucks, according to public documents. It would make sense for the
company to update its fleet with its own trucks.
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自己做的卡车自己先用，这很Tesla。
像Model 3也是先交车给自己的员工，一方面是一种展示、一方面也是一种实地测试
而Semi卡车先给自己用不但能展示给客户看，也能节省物流成本
最重要的是能知道实际开上路后会不会有什么样的问题。
就像Semi卡车发布后，有些看过影片跟实车照片的卡车司机就很怀疑没有镜子会不会有
视线死角？有些卡车甚至装了大大小小超过10面后照镜来避免死角问题发生。
诸如此类的问题可能要每天长途开车才会发觉
恰好能借此机会来进一步做测试。
只是不知道到底要多久之后才能看到Tesla Semi真的在加州公路上跑？