Tesla announced that the first SEMI electric truck units will be on the production line by the end of 2025 at the SEMI plant in Nevada.

Dan Priestley, head of the program, said in a video posted on YouTube on Monday that the plant has an annual capacity of 50,000 units, adding that the company would be prepared for large volume production in the next quarters.

“The first units are going to be on the line by the end of this year and we will increase production all over 2026”said Priestley.

Tesla, who was trying to set up a truck construction operation for years, had said that he would have the trucks in production by 2019. In October 2022, CEO Masculine He told investors that his goal was to build 50,000 trucks in 2024.

Tesla’s plans for sending parts from China to the United States, for Cybercab and Semi, were suspended after the president Donald Trump Increased duties in Chinese products in the midst of trade war, Reuters.

The company was ready to spend the additional costs when Trump imposed a 34% duty on Chinese products, which put the plans in suspension.

Trump increased additional duties to 84%on April 9 and later to 125%, eventually raising the total duties to Chinese products exported to the US to 145%.

Tesla said last week that she would reassess her prediction for growth in three months because she was “Difficult to measure the impact of global trade policy on car supply chains” and that “Policy change could have a substantial impact on demand for our products in the short term.”