02.26.18 – Daimler, DHL, Musk Comment on Tesla Semi
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
– Daimler expresses skepticism on the Tesla Semi
– Musk expects to exceed announced specifications
– DHL discusses Semi payback period
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Monday February 26th 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial |
| 0:12.0 | Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | My name is Rob Maower and today we are talking more about the Tesla Semi, |
| 0:16.3 | where we have new comments made from Daimler, DHL and Elon Musk. |
| 0:20.6 | Tesla stock on Friday closed up 1.70 to $3.52.5 |
| 0:25.0 | This compared to the Nasdac up 1.77%. |
| 0:29.1 | On the week, Tesla finished up 5.5%, |
| 0:31.5 | compared to the Nasdac up 1.5%. Supercharger Network update, we are currently |
| 0:35.6 | at 1,167 supercharging locations with one new station opening up in Tampa, Florida. |
| 0:42.0 | Getting into the news then, over the last few days we've had a number of interesting comments made |
| 0:45.7 | about the Tesla Semi. |
| 0:47.3 | Starting with Daimler, their head of trucks, Martin Dom, shared some pretty extreme skepticism |
| 0:51.6 | with reporters on the specification claims for the Tesla |
| 0:55.0 | Semi. |
| 0:56.0 | Dom said, quote, if Tesla really delivers on this promise, we'll obviously buy two trucks, |
| 1:00.4 | one to take apart and one to test, if that happens something has passed us by. |
| 1:04.4 | But for now the same laws of physics apply." |
| 1:07.3 | Essentially what Martin Dom is suggesting here is that Tesla's announced mix of price and performance claims on the Tesla's South. is Heavy Dutyi-Doo truck within their Actros line. |
| 1:22.8 | Looking at the targets that Mercedes-Benz has for this vehicle, |
| 1:25.9 | it's no surprise that they are skeptical |
| 1:27.8 | of the claims that Tesla is making. |
| 1:29.8 | Last week, Daimler had a press release |
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