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A fully-electric Tesla truck, called simply the Semi, may be about to go into production after Tesla founder Elon Musk sent a company-wide email out yesterday. In the email seen by news agency Reuters, Musk told employees that it was time to bring the Tesla Semi to "volume production".

The Tesla Semi truck has been teased by Elon Musk, the company's CEO, during a TED talk this week. According to Business Insider, Musk told attendees: "This will be a very spry truck. You can drive this around like a sports car." Musk stated that the Tesla Semi's mission is to prove electric trucks can outperform their diesel counterparts in terms of range and torque. The teaser was flashed on the stage's big screen, and the image you see here was captured by Johana Bhuiyan‏ from Recode.