PepsiCo Unveils Fleet Of 18 Tesla Semi In Sacramento via insideevs.com
According to media reports, PepsiCo intends to use 21 Tesla Semi at the Sacramento plant for local deliveries of Pepsi products. Another 15 vehicles will be used by PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay manufacturing plant in Modesto, California.To prepare for the electrification, the company installed high-power DC fast charging stations at both sites. The article mentions four 750-kilowatt charging stalls , which visually are very similar to the V4 Superchargers.
One of the most interesting things is that PepsiCo's initial purchase of Tesla Semis was in big part paid for by state and federal grants."The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District paid for 18 of the 21 trucks to be used at the South Sacramento bottling plant with $4.5 million in grants, said Alberto Ayala, its executive director."
"PepsiCo received a total of $15 million in state and local grants for the vehicles and charging infrastructure in both Sacramento and Modesto, plus $40,000 per vehicle from the federal government"An interesting thing is that, according to Erica Edwards, senior vice-president for manufacturing for PepsiCo, the Tesla Semi trucksTesla says that the range is 500 miles when fully loaded, whileAs more and more fleets start receiving their vehicles, we will probably see some valuable range...
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