Walmart Canada continues its march towards a 100% alternative fuel fleet with the deployment of its first hydrogen fuel cell-powered Nikola Tre.
With the deployment of this truck, Nikola says Walmart Canada has become the first major retail chain in North America to introduce a hydrogen fuel cell electric semi truck to its fleet.
The Nikola HFCEV is a Class 8 tractor with a range of about 800 kilometers (over 400 miles) “per tank” and an 82,000,000 GCWR that can, when compared to a conventional semi, avoid putting nearly 100 metric tons of CO2 tailpipe emissions into the air each year – which is one of the reasons electrifying the commercial truck sector is so critical.
Back in April, Reuters reported that retailers like Walmart and Pepsi were becoming frustrated by long waits and continued delays for Tesla’s electric semi trucks, and were turning to rival electric-truck makers as the moved to decarbonize their trucking fleets.
Has Tesla missed the boat. Or is Tesla mutating from being an automotive corporation.
Musk’s mentality/personality seems to be driven to push into new ventures & push the envelope-underground tunneling, Space-X, brain chip, robots etc.
Has Musk moved on-lost focus or interest in EVs? Does Musk consider the EV challenge surmounted and thus it is time to move on?
And perhaps the EV part of Musk business should be turned over to execs with manufacturing & marketing expertise. Folks with mentalities to concentrate on the mundane day to day operation of a business.