Northern Fruit has reserved five of Tesla’s cybertrucks when production begins later this year at the new Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. The vehicles are expected to arrive in 2022. Pauly said one electric semi-truck also is on order, from the same factory, and he anticipates adding more electric vehicles to the fleet.
“We have vehicles every day in use with our company — passenger vehicles, pickup trucks, passenger vans, semi trucks, four-wheelers and forklifts,” he said. “The only one so far to make a transition to EVs is forklifts. Everything else is pretty much like it was when the company was founded in 1928. We have a steering wheel, a gas pedal and a driver behind it to operate the vehicle. I believe that’s about to change.”