Tesla Europe published the Semi's European specification on 11 September 2026, four days before the truck's formal launch at IAA Transportation in Hannover. The numbers are official now rather than inferred from regional web listings, and they confirm Europe gets one truck rather than the Standard/Long Range pair sold in North America.
What is now official
| European Semi | North American Semi (Long Range) | |
|---|---|---|
| Range | Up to 550 km | 805 km (500 mi) |
| Rated at | 40 t gross combination | 82,000 lb (37.2 t) |
| Consumption | 1 kWh/km | ~1.7 kWh/mile |
| Curb weight | 9,100 kg | — |
| Battery | Not published | 822 kWh |
| Charging standard | MCS | Tesla megawatt connector |
| Peak charging | Up to 800 kW | 1.2 MW |
| Recovered in 30 min | ~60% of range | ~70% of range |
| ePTO | Up to 25 kW | Up to 25 kW |
| Price | Not published | $260,000 / $290,000 |
TeslAnt reported the 550 km and 800 kW figures on 25 August, when they appeared on Tesla's UK and Dutch sites and superseded an earlier 1.2 MW listing that turned out to describe the American truck. What today adds is Tesla's own confirmation, plus the consumption figure of 1 kWh/km and the half-hour charging claim for the European specification.
One truck, and a pack Tesla has not named
The single-variant decision is the substantive news. North America buys a 500-mile Long Range Semi on an 822 kWh pack or a shorter Standard Range; Europe gets one listing. The curb weight suggests which: at 9,100 kg the European truck is lighter than the US Long Range Semi and sits on the US Standard Range figure of under 20,000 lb. Tesla has published no European battery capacity, so that stays an inference from the weight rather than a specification.
The 40-tonne rating is what makes the truck sellable here at all: it is the standard maximum for an articulated combination across most of the EU, so a Semi homologated to it drops into existing haulage contracts without dispensation.
Charging is a deliberate European choice
800 kW is lower than the American truck's 1.2 MW, and it is the more useful number anyway, because of what it plugs into. The European Semi charges on MCS, the Megawatt Charging System that European operators and charge-point companies are standardising on, while the North American truck uses Tesla's own megawatt connector.
That means a European Semi can use somebody else's megawatt charger, and somebody else's truck can use Tesla's. Where megawatt truck charging barely exists yet, an open standard is worth more than a proprietary peak — a fleet buyer is being asked to trust a network several companies are building, not one. For a driver, the number that matters is the 30 minutes: roughly 60% of range inside the mandatory 45-minute break.
What is still missing
No European price, no on-sale date, and no homologated range figure — 550 km is a manufacturer number, not a heavy-duty type-approval result. Tesla has also not said whether European trucks will be imported from Nevada or eventually built closer to their market.
Against the competition the headline is respectable rather than commanding: Mercedes-Benz already has the eActros 600 working here with a 500 km range, and Volvo, MAN, Scania, DAF and Renault all have electric tractors on European roads. And Einride's 500-truck order — placed by a European company, with not one truck bound for Europe — remains the clearest measure of where Tesla can actually deliver today.
IAA Transportation runs from 15 to 20 September in Hannover.
Update: 2026-09-14
On 14 September 2026, with the Semi on display at IAA Transportation in Hannover for the second time, a member of Tesla's stand staff told Teslamag that nothing fundamentally stands in the way of a Long Range version for Europe and that it could follow later — which qualifies the single-variant picture above. He argued Europe does not need the 805 km American range, because mandatory driver rest periods make it redundant. Tesla also placed European deliveries at the beginning of 2027, the on-sale timing this article noted was missing, with US deliveries possibly starting on 24 September. The European truck's visible changes are camera mirrors, twin headlights in place of the light bar, and wheel guards, all to satisfy EU regulations.
Update: 2026-09-15
The truck went on the stand at IAA Transportation in Hannover on 15 September 2026, and the show floor filled in what the specification sheet left out. The European Semi drops conventional side mirrors for a camera system — Tesla's team counts ten cameras around the truck and claims a 360-degree view with no dead spots — and replaces the American truck's full-length lightbar with standalone headlights, with no amber markers above the cab. The black trim behind the cab is gone, and the tractor has been adapted for European trailer couplers, as Drive Tesla reported from the launch.
On the one-variant question, a member of Tesla's stand staff told teslamag.de that nothing fundamentally stands in the way of a Long Range version and that it could follow later. That is a remark at a trade-show booth rather than an announcement: Tesla has still confirmed only the Standard Range truck for Europe.
Update: 2026-09-28
On 28 September 2026 Automobile Propre published an interview with Dan Priestley, who runs Tesla's Semi programme, conducted at IAA Transportation in Hannover. It answers the production question this article left open: Tesla considers the Nevada factory sufficient for initial European demand, and says moving production closer to the market would only become "pertinent" as volumes grow — so the first European trucks are imports. Priestley also split the 2027 timing recorded in the update above: test vehicles and customer demonstrations in the first half of the year, commercial deliveries in the second. He named France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Benelux countries, Poland, Spain and Italy as initial markets, heavy-freight corridors first, adding that Tesla "will go everywhere the market takes us". Sales are to be direct to the customer whatever the fleet size, backed by a dedicated Tesla service network with mobile support, and tractor units launch first — rigid cab-over trucks are technically possible but not planned. Sources: Le patron du Tesla Semi dévoile ses plans pour l'Europe.