Hacker News with Generative AI: Trucking

EV could reboot medium-duty trucking by not reinventing the wheel (arstechnica.com)
GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—There's no shortage of companies looking to reinvent the delivery experience using everything from sidewalk drones to electric vans. Some are succeeding, but many more have failed by trying to radically rethink the simple, age-old task of getting stuff from one place to another.
A Tesla Semi has already traveled 250k miles in 1.5 years (electrek.co)
We learned a lot about Tesla Semi thanks to a new presentation from the head of the electric truck program at Tesla, including the fact that Tesla ran one of the trucks 250,000 miles (400,000 km) already.