This article is misleading. The supposed e-trucks cited as being manufactured by major companies are all short-haul and relatively light-duty. The problems for long-haul heavy-duty transportation are the time taken to recharge and the battery duty life. Tesla's silly effort is doomed to fail not merely because of putative purchase price (if it's ever actually produced...) but because the economics aren't there. A Mack truck diesel engine has a duty life of around 1.5 million miles and can be refueled in under 10 minutes. There are thousands of repair shops across the nation. A large EV long-distance heavy hauler, by comparison, will need batteries replaced around every 2 years at horrific expense, and if something breaks in the electric motor, don't expect much in the way of rapid assistance. Until superior battery technology arrives, diesel trucks will remain the only economically viable way to move containers around North America. Musk is a moron, so he always thinks he's a "genius" but most of his ideas are at best superficial and at worst catastrophically stupid. The non-existent Tesla long-haul truck is just one more example of Musk's incapacity to grasp the blindingly obvious.