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Australian Roads Are Too Tight For Tesla’s Enormous Semi – Gizmodo Australia
The Tesla Semi is allegedly coming in 2021. But before you get too excited, we may never actually see one on Australian roads.
Last week we saw the first video of a Tesla Semi in a few years. But before you get too excited, we may never actually see one on Australian roads.
This is because the trucks are too big for our roads. Under Australian regulations, vehicles wider than 2.5 metres aren’t allowed to drive on our roads. Unfortunately for Tesla, the Semi is two-inches too big.
Comparatively, the limit in the US is 2.6 metres and in the EU it is 2.55 metres.
Tesla highlighted this in a submission to the National Transport…
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