Tesla’s Semi freight truck deliveries will being in late 2019, and will have different charging needs from Tesla’s cars with the possibility of a private network of “Megachargers” available to smaller customers.
Anheuser-Busch, PepsiCo, and United Parcel Service will build private charging stations on their own sites, in partnerships with Tesla whose terms are still being negotiated.
Many of the Semi’s early users are short-haul operators and will use the Semi to deliver loads along shorter, likely relatively fixed routes making building their own infrastructure sensible.
Read the article at Fortune.