Tesla's semi-truck 'The Beast' rolls out
Tesla's long-awaited electric tractor-trailer truck released on Thursday night in California. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has released a big, powerful truck he has nicknamed "The Beast." A teaser image Telsa has released, showing the truck heavily back-lit, reveals a tall silhouette with futuristic angular headlights. Musk has frequently touted the truck's reveal which was originally set for September, but it's been delayed. Most recently, it was pushed to November because, Tesla said, it needed to divert resources to help restore power in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.Tesla makes power storage equipment as well as cars. It also needed to attend to problems with the Model 3 sedan, only 260 of which have been made since July. But Tesla is rolling into a big new market very different from the passenger vehicles it sells now. And the company is already facing major production issues with the cars it already makes. It will be a challenging new line of ...