Tesla‘s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Senior Manager of Semi truck engineering, Dan Priestley, has backed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) stronger Phase-3 emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
What Happened: Priestley took to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday to announce confidence in the company’s semi-truck saying that it is very capable of replacing diesel trucks.
Tesla’s fleet of Semis ships over 20,000 battery packs from Giga Nevada to its Fremont factory and can carry the same load as any diesel truck, he said, at substantially lower operating costs. “Now, it's about scale,” he noted.
Tighter emission rules, superior economics, and the electric truck experience will enable full market adoption “faster than many think,” Priestley added.