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 · Operated by DHL Supply Chain · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/tesla-semi-dhl-california.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/cb1bc087-1bf0-48f8-b575-ae0da6a54dc6
- Data documentation: /data
An honest single-unit current state, not the oft-cited 2017 fleet order. DHL Supply Chain reserved 10 Tesla Semis at the 2017 unveiling, but that reservation sat dormant for about eight years; DHL took delivery of its first Tesla Semi only in early December 2025, operating one truck in Central California at roughly 100 miles/day and charging about once per week. DHL released testing data of about 1.72 kWh/mile hauling 75,000 lb over a 390-mile route. DHL says it has more on order with 2026 expansion (Ohio, Pennsylvania floated), but quantities and dates are not confirmed. Do not record as a multi-truck operating fleet. Battery-electric truck with driver-assist, not autonomy.
Key facts
- Operator
- DHL Supply Chain (Deutsche Post DHL Group)
- Current state
- 1 unit operating since Dec 2025 (Central California); 2017 reservation of 10 was dormant ~8 yrs
- Verification
- Single operating/pilot unit; larger order announced but unconfirmed
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
- Model
- Semi
- Company
- Tesla
- Location
- California
- Operator
- DHL Supply Chain
- Status
- active
- First seen
- 2025-12-01
- ID
cb1bc087-1bf0-48f8-b575-ae0da6a54dc6
Verifications (0)
No verifications recorded yet.
Sources (2)
Common questions
- What is the Semi deployment at California?
- Semi, built by Tesla, is recorded as a deployment at California on the DEPLOY registry. DHL Supply Chain operates the deployment.
- Who operates Semi at California?
- DHL Supply Chain operates this deployment as a customer of Tesla, the manufacturer of Semi.
- When did the Semi deployment at California go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting December 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 currently operating.
- 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.