With diesel prices crushing the trucking industry, the timing seems opportune for Tesla’s new electric semi. There’s just one problem: It doesn’t have enough chargers.

Late last week, the EV maker started “high-volume” production at its dedicated plant for the truck in Nevada, and Tesla says that facility will soon produce 1,000 units a week and up to 50,000 a year. But the company has only opened a handful of its own “Megachargers,” meaning its deliveries are likely to fall short of the thousands predicted.

“I might say 250 or less,” electric trucking researcher Jason Roycht, founder of Meridius Consulting in Detroit, told Forbes. “The problem is there’s not enough charging ready.”

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After meeting with billionaire AI executives at the White House, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that self-regulation in the industry is “very important,” but stopped short of saying the government would support new guardrails.

Trump signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence,” and also launched an official government chatbot on Tuesday.

OpenAI launched a new AI assistant called Dots, which can work on tasks in the background and can connect to thousands of apps, as tech companies compete to build publicly available AI agents.

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