Deployment
Semi at California
The Tesla Semi is a Class 8 battery-electric heavy-duty truck (325-mile and 500-mile range variants), unveiled in November 2017 with first deliveries to PepsiCo on December 1 2022. The registry records it at commercial maturity on the strength of PepsiCo's sustained, multi-site, multi-year fleet operation (Sacramento beverage and Modesto Frito-Lay), with additional independent pilots at ArcBest/ABF and DHL (first delivery December 2025). Critically, the Tesla Semi is a human-driven electric truck: every deployed unit runs with a driver, Tesla has made no Level 4 claim, and it removed Autopilot/FSD references from the Semi's marketing. Full autonomy is a roadmap claim only, so the registry does not wire the Semi to Tesla's FSD stack. Volume production at the dedicated Giga Nevada Semi factory is targeted for 2026 (a repeatedly-slipped Tesla target); production is still ramping. 2017-era pricing of $150k-$180k is a stale projection.
Semi by Tesla · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/tesla-semi-arcbest-pilot.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/e8016473-ddd5-4965-80ec-3bcc36c6e75a
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Footage
Tesla's December 2022 Semi delivery event (first customer deliveries, to PepsiCo). The Semi is a battery-electric Class 8 truck and is human-driven: it has no driverless or autonomous-trucking product, and Tesla's Full Self-Driving is a separate consumer-car program.
A completed, time-boxed pilot, not an operating fleet. ArcBest's less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight ran a single Tesla Semi for about three weeks, with results announced July 2025: 4,494 total miles, ~321 miles/day, 1.55 kWh/mile, over routes including Reno-to-Sacramento over-the-road service, Bay Area regional runs, and the 7,200-ft Donner Pass climb. Performance generally matched diesel counterparts with positive driver feedback; ArcBest flagged charging infrastructure as the gating constraint. ArcBest does not currently operate any Class 8 battery-electric tractors in regular service. Battery-electric truck with driver-assist, not autonomy.
Key facts
- Operator
- ArcBest / ABF Freight
- Pilot
- 1 truck, ~3 weeks, 4,494 mi, 1.55 kWh/mi; results July 2025
- Verification
- PILOT (completed one-off; no ongoing fleet)
Exposure
- Customer segment
- logistics
- Scale tier
- pilot lt10
- Customer
- (registry company)
Each exposure value carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Semi at California.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-07-10
- Model
- Semi
- Company
- Tesla
- Location
- United States/California
- Status
- ended
- Operator type
- customer deployed
- First seen
- 2025-07-01
- ID
e8016473-ddd5-4965-80ec-3bcc36c6e75a
Timeline
- Jul 2025First recordedSemi first documented operating at California.
- Jun 2026created
- Jul 2026Current status: ended, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
Semi operates in California. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (2)
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-10
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-10
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: truck
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Semi at California.Common questions
- What is the Semi deployment at California?
- Semi, built by Tesla, is recorded as a deployment at California on the DEPLOY registry. Tesla operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates Semi at California?
- Tesla, the manufacturer of Semi, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- When did the Semi deployment at California go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting July 1, 2025 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Is the Semi deployment at California still active?
- As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is no longer operating at this location.
- Have there been incidents at the Semi deployment at California?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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