Lance Ulanoff Lance Ulanoff was Chief Correspondent and Editor-at-Large of Mashable. Lance acted as a senior member of the editing team, with a focus on defining internal and curated opinion content. He also helped develop staff-wide alternative story-telling skills and implementation of social media tools during live events. Prior to joining Mashable in September 2011 Lance Ulanoff served as Editor in Chief of PCMag.com and Senior Vice President of Content for the Ziff Davis, Inc. While there, he guided the brand to a 100% digital existence and oversaw content strategy for all of Ziff Davis’ Web sites. His long-running column on PCMag.com earned him a Bronze award from the ASBPE. Winmag.com, HomePC.com and PCMag.com were all been honored under Lance’s guidance.He makes frequent appearances on national, international, and local news programs including Fox News, the Today Show, Good Morning America, Kelly and Michael, CNBC, CNN and the BBC.He has also offered commentary on National Public Radio and been interviewed by newspapers and radio stations around the country. Lance has been an invited guest speaker at numerous technology conferences including SXSW, Think Mobile, CEA Line Shows, Digital Life, RoboBusiness, RoboNexus, Business Foresight and Digital Media Wire’s Games and Mobile Forum. There's no transmission, no clutch, no big motor, and no after-treatments or differentials in the Tesla Semi. And even those facts to paint a picture of just how foreign the Tesla Semi may be to every red-blooded trucker on American roads today. In part because of the lack of conventional truck parts, Musk made some of his trademark outsize claims about the reliability of the Tesla Semi at Thursday's event. He said it's guaranteed not to break down for "a million" miles of driving and that the brake pads last "forever." Musk also claimed the glass on the truck is "thermonuclear explosion-proof," and (jokingly?) said he would refund anyone's Tesla Semi that didn't survive a nuclear explosion. Tesla has taken the cabin, a place where the average trucker will spend 10-14 hours a day (and maybe more if they sleep in the ruck), thrown the components up in the air, and settled them into what the company believes are more ergonomic and useful spots. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable All this is clear to me as I, under the rumble of overhead helicopters and gulf jets, examine the Tesla Semi cabin for the first time. Tesla ferries small groups of journalists in gulf-wing Model X's around from the front of Hawthorne Airport to the back, past the famous first Boring Tunnel dig and an actual Hyperloop Test tube that extends down much of a side road, to a hanger just behind the Tesla Design Studio. Inside are two Tesla Semi truck prototypes and one Day Cab Class 8 truck, probably not enjoying the comparison with Tesla's innovative cargo movers. Hello, beautiful What's instantly notable here is that these are all day-cabins, meaning the first Tesla Semi trucks do not include sleeper cabin space behind the driver's compartment. That's surprising considering most full-time truckers do spend some time sleeping in their trucks. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Tesla tells us they're considering a sleeper model in the future, which will extend the length of the cabin, but not the overall truck length. The trucks will charge at new "Megachargers," which will be located where the trucks unload cargo, and a 30-minute charge can add 400 miles of range. At the event, Musk said drivers are legally required to stop for at least 30 minutes when they're on break. Up close, the Tesla Semi truck is gargantuan. Thanks to the aerodynamic fairing affixed to the top, it towers above us. That half-cone of hard material rises to the exact height of a trailer, so the wind glides from the front of the Tesla Semi's curved snout, up past the angled windshields (there are three) and over the top of the truck. Up close, the Tesla Semi Truck is gargantuan They lead us around to the back of the truck where, not for the last time, we encounter reused technology. The four "super singles" tires each have their own Tesla Model 3 motor, each of which can operate independently. Semi trucks typically use double or single wheels. Tesla put the singles on this prototype, but it could just as easily use "duals." Sitting between these tires is the "Fifth Wheel," the tire-sized, notched and heavily greased panel that truckers use to attach their trailers to the truck. It's unremarkable and standard in design or, as Tesla put it to us, "trailer agnostic." Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Telsa later later notes that there are currently no plans to build custom Tesla trailers with extra battery power. This makes sense when you think about how truckers keep their trucks, but usually leave the cargo trailers behind when they're done with a job. Mashable Light Speed