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Concept cars aren't driven, let alone sold/given to actual customers.

AFAIK the Tesla Semi isn't being sold to general customers. Pepsi is participating in the testing program, but they knew full well that they were early adopters, and they're doing it in part for the positive PR. It's sort of like a closed beta.

They also aren't normally intended to ever be produced. They are one-offs, to experiment with design ideas and get reactions.

GP was speaking about Tesla overall, not their concept art department.

Yeah, but concept cars are well denoted as such and CEOs don't normally go all "this and that is production ready and it's financial suicide to buy anything else".