
Tesla Semi Delivery Event
Elon Musk Podcast
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The Impact of Semi-Trucks on the Environment
The US is like 15 million passenger vehicles and a couple hundred thousand semi-trucks. So, when you factor in the number of hours driven and the weight that it's carrying, it's actually 20% of vehicle emissions. And it's over a third of all the particulate emissions. From a sort of health standpoint, particularly in like cities, this is a huge impact, like it's gigantic. That's why we're doing it.
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