A lot of claims made in this video about lowering emissions and other wild claims. Yet, no mention that a lot of electricity in North America still comes from coal or natural gas generators. And the amount of rare earth minerals required to make a Tesla semi - none of it is recyclable. When the truck is done, it goes into a landfill. While other diesel trucks - almost all of it gets recycled.
Nearly your entire post is full of toejam.
Your electric energy supply is only going to get greener over time, your diesel engine is dirty for life.
The only component that might use a small amount of rare earths in the Tesla Semi is the motors, if they use permanent magnets. Tesla has also used induction motors which don't have magnets, and I haven't heard which they'll use in the Semi yet. And no reasonable person has expressed environmental concerns over the rare earths in the existing Tesla motors to date.
The batteries are going to be fully recyclable. See Tesla's most recent Battery Day presentation. And the batteries don't have rare earth elements in them.
There's no reason at all to think that a Tesla Semi will go in a landfill at the end of its life, and plenty of evidence, based on the salvage value of existing Tesla vehicles, to think the exact opposite.
About the only thing you got right was point out that existing energy often comes from dirty sources. But even the dirtiest coal plant in America is cleaner than the cleanest semi-truck-sized diesel engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JohGniYph-c&t=22Just saying.
Indeed.
