[flask_manager]

Awkward headline, since its not really much of a milestone. The first couple in a region are interesting, hitting significant proportions a year is interesting, a cumulative (relatively) small number is not that interesting.

[willio58]

Since when is 5k a couple? Volvo is selling these while companies like Tesla are cough asleep at the wheel. I think the article mentioned 140 Tesla semis sold.

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

They're tooling up the new Semi factory in Nevada (next to their first Gigafactory) and it has 50000 units/year volume production capacity.

[FireBeyond]

Cool. Sure. Considering they promised 5,000 units to Pepsi and UPS in 2017 and have delivered barely 100.

Just more of Musk kicking cans down the road.

[legacynl]

According to musk

[flask_manager]

5k over 6ish years when volvo sells well over 100k ice a year. It doesnt look like they are even selling 1 % electric a year yet.

[darkwizard42]

Given large fleet operators like JB Hunt operate about 30K vehicles, this is a pretty significant number.