Hey everybody Rob Maower here should be a pretty quick episode today. We have

some news on the Tesla Semi, a couple other Tesla related stories, and then also

some news from competition on their electric vehicle plans. But right now really all the focus for

Tesla is on closing out the end of the third quarter, which will happen end of day tomorrow.

Tesla stock on the day today finished down half a percent to $490.7

that compared to the Nasak which was down 0.3%.

First up is some news on the Tesla Semi.

It's been a while since we have had a lot of news on Tesla Semi reservation counts or

orders, but Walmart Canada announced today that they are more than tripling their number of reservations that they have for the Tesla semi as part of a three and a half billion dollar investment over the next five years which Walmart size is aimed to generate significant growth in the business and is also aligned with

Walmart's global goal to target zero emissions by 2040.

So Walmart Canada now says that they have 130 total semi trucks on order. This is actually the second time they've increased their

order. They started out with 10, added another 30, and then now has added 90 more. And then in addition

to that, I think Walmart US has five on order.

So as far as I know, this now makes Walmart the largest order or so far of the

Tesla Semi.

Even so, it's still a relatively small order in terms of the dollar amount.

130 semis, even if they're all founders. relatively small amount.

semi's, even if they're all Founders Edition, $200,000 versions, that's still only about $26 million in potential revenue

from this order.

Obviously, just a small drop in the bucket for Tesla's total.

But the point with all of these orders, these reservations for the semi is for these

companies to start to get a fleet that they can trial and test and then expand on if that trial phase is successful.

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