Tesla installs Mega Chargers for PepsiCo!!?
The tesla mega chargers, installed at the Frito-Ley plant in Modesto, California, are expected to support the operation of its semi-pickup trucks.
As part of this, the company has installed the first mega chargers at the Frito-Lay plant, a subsidiary of PepsiCo in Modesto, California.
The first reports were that Ramon Lagwarta, CEO of the Beverage Company, would deliver before the end of 2021, as expected. But now it is expected that deliveries will take place in january itself.
The chargers are integrated with a megapack energy storage system that prevents high power surges from the grid.
Tesla has already set up a mega-charging station at its Giga Nevada battery Giga factory, where semi-pickups are reported to have entered limited production last month.
Late last month, Karat Packaging - a speciality distributor and manufacturer of eco-friendly and disposable foodservice products and accessories, announced that tesla would add semi-pickup trucks to its range.
Motor 1 reports that the company's 86 trucks and trailers can expand 10 tesla semis. tesla claims that the semi-electric vehicle can run for 805 km on a single charge.
Meanwhile, in another piece of tesla news, tesla raised the price of self-driving software in the US to $ 12,000.
Elon Musk, Tesla's chief executive officer, tweeted yesterday that he would raise the price of Advanced driver Assistant software, a full - self - driving (FSD) software in the US, to $ 12,000 on january 17th.
This increase in FSD prices comes two years after tesla raised its price from $ 8,000 to $ 10,000 in 2020.
In an effort to adopt the complete self-driving technology, Musk recently announced that it was developing a system built around eight 'surround' cameras that feed data into the vehicle's 'deep neutral network'.
Musk said the process will be based on live readings collected by a camera that feeds the AI system, which contains data stored over the years by tesla sensors.