Deployment
Semi at Canada
The Tesla Semi is a Class 8 battery-electric heavy-duty truck (325-mile and 500-mile range variants), unveiled in November 2017 with first deliveries to PepsiCo on December 1 2022. The registry records it at commercial maturity on the strength of PepsiCo's sustained, multi-site, multi-year fleet operation (Sacramento beverage and Modesto Frito-Lay), with additional independent pilots at ArcBest/ABF and DHL (first delivery December 2025). Critically, the Tesla Semi is a human-driven electric truck: every deployed unit runs with a driver, Tesla has made no Level 4 claim, and it removed Autopilot/FSD references from the Semi's marketing. Full autonomy is a roadmap claim only, so the registry does not wire the Semi to Tesla's FSD stack. Volume production at the dedicated Giga Nevada Semi factory is targeted for 2026 (a repeatedly-slipped Tesla target); production is still ramping. 2017-era pricing of $150k-$180k is a stale projection.
Semi by Tesla · Operated by Walmart · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/tesla-semi-walmart-canada.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/52abd2a8-ea3d-4949-bf57-27d02532920a
- Data documentation: /data
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Footage
Tesla's December 2022 Semi delivery event (first customer deliveries, to PepsiCo). The Semi is a battery-electric Class 8 truck and is human-driven: it has no driverless or autonomous-trucking product, and Tesla's Full Self-Driving is a separate consumer-car program.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-06-12
- Model
- Semi
- Company
- Tesla
- Location
- Canada
- Operator
- Walmart
- Status
- operational
- First seen
- 2022-12-01
- ID
52abd2a8-ea3d-4949-bf57-27d02532920a
Sources (2)
- Electrek: Tesla Semi first deliveries — PepsiCo, Walmart Canada, Dec 2022 · https://electrek.co/2022/12/01/tesla-semi-deliveries-pepsico-walmart-canada/
- Reuters: Tesla begins Semi deliveries to PepsiCo, Walmart Canada, Dec 2022 · https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-starts-delivering-semi-truck-pepsi-2022-12-01/
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-12
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-12
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: truck
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Semi at Canada.Common questions
- What is the Semi deployment at Canada?
- Semi, built by Tesla, is recorded as a deployment at Canada on the DEPLOY registry. Walmart operates the deployment.
- Who operates Semi at Canada?
- Walmart operates this deployment as a customer of Tesla, the manufacturer of Semi.
- When did the Semi deployment at Canada go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting December 1, 2022 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Have there been incidents at the Semi deployment at Canada?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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