Update – teaser video
Tesla Semi unveil, 8pm PT tomorrow — watch live at https://t.co/8uVlhvzpu5 pic.twitter.com/hCIm5iCW6J
— Tesla (@Tesla) November 15, 2017
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Tesla Semi Truck unveil to be webcast live on Thursday at 8pm! This will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate dimension. Just need to find my portal gun ...
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2017
After having been postponed from 26 October, this “mind blowing” event is just 15 hours away as of this writing.1
And ... video has appeared of what appears to be a test mule
No sign of exhaust, remarkably quiet as the mule moves away, & it bears a striking resemblance to a truck in the background of the previously published image of an apparent Tesla Truck prototype.2
Tesla Truck, with apparent test mule circled in red
Credit: Electrek
Electrek – “Tesla Semi working test mule potentially captured on video for first time”,
https://electrek.co/2017/10/10/tesla-semi-test-mule-spotted-video-driving-street/
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1 20:00 Thursday 16th November US west coast time
that's:
04:00 Friday 17th GMT
15:00 Friday 17th Australian east coast daylight saving time (NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania)
14:00 Friday 17th Queensland time
2 Hhg2Tech: “Is this the first sighting of the Tesla semi truck?”, https://hhg2tech.blogspot.com/2017/10/is-this-first-sighting-of-tesla-semi.html
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