12.08.17 – Sysco Reserves 50 Tesla Semis, Tesla Confirms Development of AI Chip, Model 3 Configuration Invites
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 8 December 2017
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
– Food service distribution company Sysco has placed a reservation for 50 Tesla Semis
– Elon Musk confirms that Tesla is working on developing its own chip for artificial intelligence
– Second batch of Model 3 configuration invites have been sent out, DaveT gets a VIN
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Friday December 8th |
| 0:09.6 | 2017 edition of Tesla Daily on Official Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Rob Mower. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're talking about the Tesla Semi, |
| 0:15.0 | an Artificial Intelligence Chip from Tesla |
| 0:18.0 | and some information on Model 3. |
| 0:20.0 | Tesla stock on Thursday closed down 0.64% to 311. |
| 0:24.4 | 24 cents as compared to the NASDAQ up 0.54% |
| 0:28.4 | Supercharger network update which I completely missed yesterday |
| 0:30.9 | so sorry about that. |
| 0:32.1 | But we have four new stations opening |
| 0:33.6 | up in China, one new station in the Czech Republic, and one new station in Norway bringing the total |
| 0:37.8 | count up to 1,071 supercharging locations. In the news today we have yet another big |
| 0:43.0 | Tesla semi reservation this time from Cisco who has reserved 50 Tesla semis. So another |
| 0:49.0 | day another big reservation I think Electric.co is the first one to pick up on this |
| 0:52.2 | one. Cisco's another big company to pick up on this one. |
| 0:52.8 | Cisco's another big company, so this is a huge opportunity for Tesla, |
| 0:56.0 | and these 50 trucks are probably again sort of a test environment. |
| 0:59.0 | Cisco is actually the world's largest food service distribution network. |
| 1:02.4 | Electrex says that Cisco operates around 7. world's largest food service distribution network. |
| 1:02.6 | Electrex says that Cisco operates around 7,000 trucks. |
| 1:06.2 | As usual, what I'm not sure on is if that is just semi trucks |
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