Everything Elon Musk Said At Tesla's Q1 2024 Earnings Call
Summary
TLDRThe transcript discusses Tesla's Q1 performance amidst challenges, including the ramp-up for the updated Model 3 and Fremont's production pressures. Despite global EV adoption rates being under pressure and other manufacturers shifting to plug-in hybrids, Tesla remains committed to electric vehicles, expecting them to dominate the market. The company achieved record profitability in the energy business, largely due to the MEAP pack's all-time high deployments. Tesla is also expanding its AI training capacity, with plans to accelerate the launch of new vehicle models, including more affordable ones using a blend of current and next-generation platforms. The company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) V12 has been rolled out to over 1.8 million vehicles in North America, with a significant portion of users adopting it. Tesla's AI infrastructure is growing, with 35,000 h100 computers commissioned and plans to increase to 85,000 by year's end. Regulatory approval for unsupervised FSD in the US is anticipated, with Tesla positioning itself as an AI robotics company. The company is also developing Optimus, a humanoid robot, aiming for limited production by the end of the year. Tesla continues to focus on growth, profitability, and preparing for an autonomous and electric vehicle future.
Takeaways
- 🚗 Despite challenges, Tesla remains committed to electric vehicles (EVs) and believes they will dominate the market over plug-in hybrids.
- 📈 The Tesla team achieved record profitability for the energy business in Q1 and anticipates continued growth in the future.
- 🚀 Energy storage deployments, particularly the MEAP pack, reached an all-time high in Q1.
- 🔧 Tesla has more than doubled its AI training capacity sequentially, indicating a significant expansion in AI capabilities.
- 🚀 New vehicle models are in the pipeline, with an accelerated launch expected in early 2025, including more affordable options using aspects of both next-generation and current platforms.
- 🤖 Tesla's AI-based self-driving, FSD version 12, is being rolled out to all cars with Hardware 3 in North America, with a rapid improvement rate.
- 📉 Tesla has reduced the Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscription price to $99 a month to encourage more users to try it out.
- 🤖 Tesla is actively working on expanding its core AI infrastructure, with plans to significantly increase the number of active h100 computers by the end of the year.
- 🚖 The company envisions a future where autonomous electric vehicles are as common as elevators, with a fleet operated by Tesla, combining elements of Airbnb and Uber.
- 🔋 Tesla is considering the potential for distributed inference, similar to AWS, utilizing the idle compute power of its large fleet of cars for additional revenue streams.
- ⚙️ The company is making progress with its 4680 cell production and sees it as a hedge against rising battery costs from other suppliers.
Q & A
What challenges did the company face in Q1?
-The company navigated several unforeseen challenges, including the ramp for the updated Model 3 and Fremont, and a decrease in the global EV adoption rate which led to other manufacturers pulling back on EVs in favor of plug-in hybrids.
What is the company's stance on the shift of other manufacturers to plug-in hybrids?
-The company believes that the shift to plug-in hybrids is not the right strategy and maintains its belief that electric vehicles will ultimately dominate the market.
What was the performance of the energy storage deployments in Q1?
-Energy storage deployments, particularly the MEAP pack, reached an all-time high in Q1, leading to record profitability for the energy business.
What is the expected timeline for the launch of new vehicle models?
-The company has updated its future vehicle lineup to accelerate the launch of new models, with production expected to begin in the second half of 2025 or possibly late 2024.
How will the new vehicle models be produced?
-The new vehicles will use aspects of the Next Generation platform as well as aspects of the current platforms and will be produced on the same manufacturing lines as the current vehicle lineup without the need for a new factory or massive new production line.
What is the current status of FSD version 12?
-FSD version 12, which is a pure AI-based self-driving system, has been rolled out to all cars with the cameras and inference computer from Hardware 3 on in North America, and is being used by around half a million vehicles with increasing adoption rates.
How has the company addressed the subscription price for FSD?
-The company has reduced the subscription price to $99 a month to make it more accessible for users to try out.
What is the company's vision for its robot taxi, CyberCap?
-The company plans to showcase its purpose-built robot taxi, CyberCap, in August, indicating a move towards autonomous vehicle services.
What advancements have been made in AI training capacity in Q1?
-The company more than doubled its training compute sequentially in Q1, indicating significant expansion in its AI training capacity.
What is the current status of the Optimus humanoid robot?
-The company is working on bringing Optimus to limited production in the actual factory by the end of the year and may be able to sell it externally by the end of the next year.
What is the company's perspective on regulatory approval for unsupervised FSD in the US?
-The company believes that as long as there is conclusive data showing that autonomous cars are safer than human-driven cars, there should not be significant regulatory barriers to approval.
How does the company view its role in the future of transportation?
-The company envisions a future where gasoline cars that are not autonomous will be as obsolete as riding a horse and using a flip phone, and it sees itself as an AI robotics company at its core.
Outlines
🚗 Q1 Recap and EV Market Outlook
The first paragraph recaps the challenges faced in Q1, including the ramp-up for the updated Model 3 and Fremont's production pressures. Despite global EV adoption rates being under strain and other manufacturers shifting to plug-in hybrids, the company maintains confidence in the future dominance of electric vehicles. The Tesla team is praised for their performance, especially in energy storage deployments, which reached an all-time high in Q1, leading to record profitability for the energy business. The new vehicle lineup is updated to accelerate the launch of more affordable models, which will utilize aspects of both the Next-Generation and current platforms. The production of these new models is not contingent on new factories or production lines, aiming to efficiently increase capacity to over 3 million vehicles. FSD version 12, a pure AI-based self-driving system, is highlighted for its rapid improvement and adoption rates, with over 300 billion miles driven since its launch. The vision-based approach using end-to-end neural networks is touted as the correct solution for scalable autonomy. The subscription price for FSD is reduced to $99 a month, and a purpose-built robot taxi, Cyber Cap, is announced for an August showcase. The company's AI infrastructure expansion is discussed, with 35,000 h100 computers (presumably a misstatement for GPUs) installed and operational, expected to increase to 85,000 by year's end.
🤖 Optimus and Autonomous Future
The second paragraph discusses the development of Optimus, a humanoid robot, and its potential for limited production within the year. The speaker anticipates selling Optimus externally by the end of the next year, suggesting its potential economic value could surpass all other products combined. The capabilities of Tesla's inference efficiency are emphasized, highlighting the company's significant lead over competitors. Regulatory approval for unsupervised FSD in the US is touched upon, with the expectation that conclusive safety data will overcome barriers. The analogy of elevators is used to illustrate the future of autonomous vehicles, where human intervention will no longer be necessary. Tesla's plans for operating a fleet of autonomous cars are outlined, comparing it to a combination of Airbnb and Uber, with options for car owners to add their vehicles to the fleet and set usage parameters. The potential for Tesla to offer a distributed inference service, akin to Amazon Web Services (AWS), is also mentioned, leveraging the idle computing power of their large fleet of cars.
📈 Tesla's Growth and Autonomous Solutions
The third paragraph focuses on the speaker's commitment to Tesla's prosperity, emphasizing the company's success and future growth. The speaker expresses confidence in higher sales this year compared to the previous one. The competitive landscape is discussed, with Tesla's performance in China being compared favorably to its competitors. Tesla is redefined as an AI robotics company rather than just an auto manufacturer. The importance of solving autonomy is stressed, as it is considered a key factor for investment in Tesla. The potential for a 25% voting control of the company and the risks associated with advanced AI, particularly sentient humanoid robots, are mentioned. The speaker assures that Tesla will continue to work on autonomy even if he were to disappear. The need for the company to reorganize for different phases of growth is highlighted, drawing parallels to the growth of a human organism.
🚘 Affordability and Global Expansion
The fourth paragraph delves into the importance of affordability and value for Tesla's products. The speaker acknowledges the need to continuously improve the product and reduce production costs to make Tesla vehicles more accessible. The commitment to improving affordability and product quality is emphasized. The potential for licensing Tesla's FSD technology is discussed, with the speaker expressing optimism about signing deals with other manufacturers. The timeline for launching FSD in additional geographies is addressed, with plans to release a supervised autonomy system in any market where regulatory approval is granted, including China. The impact of supply constraints on Q4 2023 results is acknowledged, and recent changes to simplify the sales process are highlighted. The concept of distributed inference using Tesla's vehicle fleet is further explored, comparing it to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the potential for monetizing unused computing power.
🔌 Battery Production and Cost Management
The fifth paragraph discusses the progress of Tesla's 4680 battery cell production, suggesting that internal cell production serves as a hedge against rising battery costs from suppliers. The speaker anticipates that Tesla's cell production will become more competitive by the end of the year. The fluctuating nature of battery cell production and the impact of government incentives, such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), on demand and supply are acknowledged. The speaker also recommends that potential investors in Tesla should experience FSD 12.3 to fully understand the company's direction and capabilities.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Unforeseen Challenges
💡Model 3 and Fremont Ramp
💡EV Adoption Rate
💡Plug-in Hybrids
💡Energy Storage Deployments
💡AI Training Capacity
💡Next Generation Platform
💡FSD (Full Self-Driving)
💡Optimus
💡Regulatory Approval
💡Distributed Inference
Highlights
The company faced unforeseen challenges in Q1, including the ramp for the updated Model 3 and Fremont, but still achieved record profitability for the energy business.
Despite global EV adoption rate pressures and other manufacturers shifting to plug-in hybrids, the company maintains its commitment to electric vehicles.
Energy storage deployments, particularly the MEAP pack, reached an all-time high in Q1.
The company is expanding its AI training capacity, more than doubling it sequentially in Q1.
The new vehicle lineup will accelerate the launch of more affordable models, integrating aspects of both next-gen and current platforms.
Production of new vehicles will occur on current manufacturing lines, aiming for over 3 million vehicles of capacity.
FSD version 12, a pure AI-based self-driving system, has been rolled out to all cars with Hardware 3 in North America.
Over 300 billion miles have been driven with FSD V12, reinforcing the vision-based approach with end-to-end neural networks as the scalable autonomy solution.
The subscription price for FSD has been reduced to $99 a month to encourage more users to try it out.
Tesla is planning to showcase its purpose-built robotaxi, CyberCap, in August.
The company has installed and commissioned 35,000 h100 computers, aiming for 85,000 by the end of the year.
Tesla's inference efficiency is significantly better than any other company, a key advantage for the future of autonomous vehicles.
Regulatory approval for unsupervised FSD in the US is anticipated, with the potential for rapid advancements in deployment.
Tesla envisions operating a fleet of autonomous cars, blending elements of Airbnb and Uber business models.
The company anticipates a training data flywheel effect, similar to Google Search, as the fleet grows and provides constant feedback.
Tesla is considering the potential of distributed inference, where idle cars could offer computational power akin to AWS on a global scale.
The company is in talks with a major automaker regarding the licensing of FSD technology.
Tesla is focused on improving the affordability and value of its vehicles, aiming to make them accessible to a wider audience.
The company is simplifying its sales process to make purchasing a Tesla as easy as possible.
Tesla is progressing with the 4680 cell ramp, aiming to achieve target yields and mitigate supply chain risks.
Transcripts
to recap in q1 we navigated several
unforeseen challenges as well as the
ramp for the updated model 3 and Fremont
there was as as people have seen the EV
adoption rate globally is under pressure
and and a lot of other water
manufacturers are pulling back on EVs
and pursuing plug-in hybrids instead we
believe this is not the right strategy
and electric vehicles will ultimately
dominate the market despite these
challenges the tales team did a great
job executing in a tough environment and
energy storage deployments the MEAP pack
in particular reach an alltime High q1
leading to record profitability for the
energy business and that looks likely to
continue to increase in the quarters and
years ahead it will increase we actually
know that it will it's significantly
faster than the car business as we
expected we also continue to expand our
AI training capacity in q1 more than
doubling our training compute uh
sequentially in terms of the new product
road map there's been a lot of talk
about our upcoming vehicle line in the
next in the past several weeks we've
updated our future vehicle lineup to
accelerate the launch of new models
ahead of previously mentioned stter
production in the second half of of so
we expect it to be more like the early
2025 if not late this year these new
vehicles including more affordable
models we'll use aspects of the Next
Generation platform as well as aspects
of our current platforms and will be
able to be produced on the same
manufacturing lines as a current vehicle
lineup it's not contingent on any new
Factory or massive new production line
it'll be made on our current production
lines much more efficiently and and we
think this should allow us to get to
over 3 million vehicles of capacity when
realiz to the full extent regarding FSD
version 12 which is the pure AI based
self-driving people that if you haven't
experienced this I strongly urge you to
try it out it's profound and the rate of
improvement is rapid we and we've now
turned that on for all cars with the
cameras and inference computer and
everything from Hardware 3 on in North
America so it's been pushed out to I
think around 1.8 million vehicles and
we're seeing about half of people use it
so far and that percentage is increasing
with each passing week so we now have
over 300 billion miles that have been
driven with FSD V12 since the launch of
full self driving supervised full self
driving it's become very clear that the
vision based approach with endtoend
neural networks is the right solution
for scalable autonomy it's really how
humans Drive our entire Road network is
designed for biological neural Nets and
eyes so naturally cameras and digital
neural Nets are the solution to our
current road system to make it more
accessible we've reduced the
subscription price to $99 a month so
it's easy to try out and as we've
announced we will be showcasing our
purpose buil robot taxi or cyber cap in
August yeah regarding regarding AI
compute over the past few months we've
been actively working on expanding
Tesla's core AI infrastructure for a
while there we were training constrained
in our progress we are at this point no
longer training constrained and so we're
making rapid progress we've installed
and commissioned meaning they're
actually working 35,000 h100 computers
or gpus GPU is wrong wood they need a
new
wood always feel like a win when I say
GPU because not GPU stands G stands for
graphics and doesn't do Graphics but
anyway roughly 35 h100s are active and
we expect that to be probably 85,000 or
their abouts by the end of this year and
training just for training we are making
sure that we're being as efficient as
possible in our training it's not just
about the number of h100s but how
efficiently they're used so in
conclusion we're super excited about our
autonomy road map and get it should be
obvious to anyone who's driving a
version 12 in a test that is only a
matter of time before we see the
reliability of humans and not much time
at that and we're really headed for an
electric vehicle an autonomous future
and I'll go back to something I said
several years ago that in the future
gasoline cars that are not autonomous
will be like riding a horse and using a
flip phone and that will become very
obvious in in hindsight we continue to
make the necessary Investments that will
drive growth and profits with Tesla in
the future and I want to thank the Tesla
team for incredible execution during
this period and look forward to
everything that we have planned ahead so
what is the current status of Optimus we
are ble to do simple Factory tasks or at
least I should say Factory tasks in the
lab the in terms of actually we do think
we will have Optimus and limited
production in the factory in the actual
Factory itself doing useful tasks before
the end of this year and I think we we
may be able to sell it externally by the
end of next year these just guesses as
I've said before I think Optimus will be
more valuable than everything else
combined uh if you've got a sentient
humanoid robot that is able to navigate
reality and do T asks at at request
there is no meaningful limit to the size
of the economy so that's what's going to
happen and I think Tesla is best
position of any humanoid robot maker to
be able to reach volume production with
efficient inference on the robot itself
the this perhaps is a point that is
worth emphasizing Tesla's inference
efficiency is vastly better than anyone
any other company there's no company
even close to the inference efficiency
of Tesla we've had to do that because we
were constrain by the inference Hardware
in the car wouldn't have a choice but
that that will pay dividends in many
ways what is the current assessment of
the pathway towards regulatory approval
for unsupervised FSD in the US it's
actually been pretty helpful that other
autonomous car companies been cutting a
path through the regulatory jungle but
the which is that's actually quite
helpful and they they have obvious been
operating in San Francisco for a while I
think they got approval for City of La
so these approvals are happening rapidly
I think if you've got at scale a a
statistically significant amount of data
that shows conclusively that the
autonomous car has let's say half the
accident rate of a human driven car I
think that's difficult to ignore because
at that point stopping autonomy means
killing people so I I actually do not
think that there will be significant
regulatory barriers provided there is
conclusive data that the autonomous car
is safer than a human driven car and in
my view this will be much like elevators
elevators used to be operated by a guy
with a relay switch but sometimes that
guy would get tired or drunk or just
make a mistake and Che somebody in half
between flows so now we just have we
just get in an elevator and press button
we don't think about it in fact it's
weird if somebody's standing there with
relay switch that'll be how cars work
you just summon a car using your phone
you get in it takes you to a destination
you get out you don't even think about
it just like an elevator it takes you to
to your floor that's it don't think
about how the elevator is working or
anything like that and and something I
should clarify is that Tesla will be
operating the fleet so you can think of
like how Tesla think of know some
combination of Airbnb and Uber meaning
that there'll be some number of cars
that Tesla owns itself and operates in
the fleet there'll be some number of
cars and there'll be a bunch of cars
where they're owned by the end user but
that end user can add or subtract their
car to the fleet whenever they want and
they can decide if they want to only let
the car be used by friends and family or
only by five star users or by anyone at
any time they could have the car come
back to them and be exclusively theirs
like an Airbnb you could ran out your
guest room or not anytime you want as
our Fleet grow
we have 7 million cars going to 9
million cars going to eventually tens of
millions of cars
worldwide with with with a constant
feedback loop every time something goes
wrong that gets added to the training
data and you get this training flywheel
happening in the same way that Google
search has the sort of flywheel it's
very difficult to compete with Google
because people are constantly doing
searches and clicking and and Google's
getting that feedback GL it's the same
with Tesla but at at a scale that is
maybe difficult to comprehend But
ultimately be 10
I I think there's also some potential
here for an AWS element down the road
where if we've got very powerful
inference because got Hardware 3 in the
cars but now all cars are being made
with Hardware 4 Hardware 5 is pretty
much designed and should be in cars
hopefully towards the end of next year
and there's the potential to have for
the to run when the car is not moving to
to actually run distributed inference
like AWS but with distributed inference
like it takes lot of computers to train
an AI model but many orders magnitude
less compute to run it so if you can
imagine the future paths where there's a
fleet of 100 million Teslas and on
average they've got like maybe a
kilowatt of inference compute that's 100
gaw of inference compute distributed all
around the world it's pretty hard to put
together 100 gaw of AI computer and even
in an autonomous future where the the
car is perhaps used instead of being
used 10 hours a week is used 50 hours a
week still leaves over 100 hours a week
where the car and fence computer could
be doing something else and seems like
it would be a waste not to use it we we
do have some insight into how good the
things will be in like let's say 3 or 4
months because we have advanced models
that are far more capable than what is
in the car but have some issues with
them that we need to to fix so they're
like they'll be they'll be a step change
Improvement in the capabilities of the
car but it'll have some quirks that are
that need to be addressed in order to
release it as a is saying we have to be
very careful in what we release to the
fleet or to to customers in general so
if we look at say 12.4 and 12.5 which
are really could arguably even be
version 13 version 14 because it's
pretty close to Total retrain of the
neural Nets in in each case or
substantially different so we have good
insight into where the models where how
the call how well the car will perform
in say 3 or 4 months can we get an
official announcement of the timeline
for the $225,000 vehicle really the way
to think of Tesla is almost entirely in
terms of solving autonomy and being able
to turn on that autonomy for a gigantic
Fleet and I think it might be the
biggest asset value appreciation in
history when that day happens when you
can do unsupervised full self driving
have any of the Legacy automakers
contacted Tesla about possibly licensing
FSD in the future we're in conversations
with one major order maker regarding
licensing FSD can we make FSD transfer
per permanent until FSD is fully
delivered with level five economy no I
was just wondering if you could
elaborate a little bit more on kind of
the new vehicles I think we've settled
we will on that front so what's your
follow maybe you can just talk about
where your heart is at as a constitutes
a majority of my work time and I work
pretty much every day of the week it's R
for me to take Sunday afternoon off make
sure Tesla is very prosperous and it is
I think it is prosperous and it will be
very much so in the future what's your
team's degree of confidence on growth
above 0% no I think we'll have higher
sales this year than last year how long
would it take your best Chinese
competitors to copy a cheaper and better
vehicle that you could offer a couple
years from now I don't know what our
competitors could do except we've done
relatively better than they have you
know if you look at the drop in our
competitors in China sales versus our
drop in sales our drop was less than
theirs so we're doing well but I think
Kathy would said it best like really we
should be thought of as an AI robotics
Company If You value Tesla as just like
a an auto company you just have to
fundamentally it's just the wrong
framework and will count if you ask the
wrong question then the right answer is
impossible so I mean if somebody doesn't
believe T is going to solve autonomy I I
think they should not be an investor in
the company like that is but we will and
we are and then you have a car that goes
from 10 hours of use a week like an hour
and a half a day to probably 50 but it
costs the same if you've not tried the
FSD
12.3 and like I said 12.4 is going to be
significantly better and 12.5 even
better than that and we have visibility
into those things then you really don't
understand what's going on it's not
possible we're putting the actual Auto
in automobile tell us about future horse
carriages you're making I'm like
actually doesn't need a horse that's the
whole point that's really the whole
point you've spoken about your desire to
obtain 25% voting control of the company
I think no matter what Tesla even if I
got kidnpped by aliens tomorrow Tesla
will solve autonomy maybe a little
slower but it would solve autonomy for
vehicles at least I don't know if it
would win on with respect to Optimus or
with respect to future products but it
would that there's enough momentum would
Tesla to solve autonomy even if I
Disappeared for vehicles now there's a
whole range of things we can do in the
future beyond that i' be more reticent
with respect to Optimus if we have a
super sentient humanoid robot that can
follow you indoors and that you can't
escape we're talking Terminator level
risk and yeah I'd be uncomfortable with
if there's not some meaningful level of
influence over how that is deployed and
if those shareholders have an
opportunity to ratify or ratify the sort
of competition I guess I can't say that
but that is a fact they have an
opportunity okay very good and yeah
we'll see if the company generates a lot
of posi cash flow we could obviously buy
back shares what are the types of
activities that you're presumably
sacrificing as a result of parting ways
with these folks we're not giving up
anything that it's significant that I'm
aware of we' we've just had a long
period of prosperity from 2019 to now
and so if a company organizationally is
5% wrong per year that accumulates to 25
30% of of inefficiency we've made some
corrections along the way but it is time
to reorganize the company for the next
phase of growth and you really need to
reorganize it just like a a human when
we start off with one cell and become of
zygote and elasticy and when you start
growing arms and legs and briefly you
have a tail and but you shed the tail
shed the tail hopefully and then your
baby and you basically you have to be
the organism a company is a creature
growing and if you don't reorganize it
for different phases of growth it it
will fail you can't have the same
organizational structure if you're 10
Cells versus 100 versus a million versus
a billion versus a trillion where humans
are like around 35 trillion cells
doesn't feel like it feels like one
person but you're you're basically a
walking cell colony of roughly 35
trillion depending on your body mass and
about three times that number in
bacteria anyway you you've got to
reorganize the company for a new phase
of growth or it will fail to achieve
that growth can you elaborate on how
much the licensing business opportunity
you mentioned today has progressed I
think we just need to it just needs to
be obvious that our approach is the
right approach and I think it is I think
we now with 12.3 if you just have the
car drive you around it is obvious that
our solution with a relatively low cost
inference computer and standard cameras
can achieve self-driving no Liars no
Radars no Ultrasonics nothing just no
heavy integration work for vehicle
manufacturers yeah it's so it would
really just be a case of having them use
the same cameras and inference computer
and Licensing out software and but it's
once becomes obvious that if you don't
have this in a car nobody wants your car
it's a smart car and I remember like
back when I was King of the Hill cell
phone yeah cring I come out with a
smartphone that was basically a brick
with limited functionality and then
iPhone and Android but people still did
not understand that all the phones are
going to be that way there's not going
to be any foot phon if there will be a n
product or home phone yeah not even
exactly it was last time you saw a home
phone the people don't understand all
cars will need to be smart cars or they
or you will not sell this the car will
not nobody will buy it once that becomes
obvious I think licensing becomes not
optional license it or nobody will buy
your car a deal signed now would result
in it being in a car 3 years that's like
lightning basally I I wouldn't be
surprised if we do sign a deal I think
good chance we do sign a deal this year
maybe more than one but yeah it would be
probably three years before it's
integrated with a car even though all
you need is cameras and our inference
computer so it's like not a massive
design change you still see meaningful
incremental price reductions as making
sense from here for the existing
products yeah I think we can be PR Casal
positive meaningfully end of the day
like for any given company if you sell a
great product at a great price the sale
if if you have a great product at great
price the sales will be excellent mhm
that's true of any Arena over time we do
need to keep making sure that that it's
a great product at a great price and
moreover that price is accessible to
people so it's not you have to solve
both the value for money and the
fundamental affordability question the
fundamental affordability question is
sometimes overlooked somebody's earning
hundred several hundred thousand a year
they they don't think of a car from a
fundamental affordability standpoint but
for vast majority of people are living
paycheck to paycheck so it actually
makes difference if the cost month for
lease or financing is $10 one way or the
other it's important to keep improving
the
affordability to keep s of like making
the price more yeah exactly make the
price more accessible the value for
money better and to keep improving that
over time but also to make kickass cost
that people want to buy yeah it's got to
be a great product at a great price and
the standards for what constitutes a
great product at a great price keep
increasing so there's you you can't just
be static you have to keep saying keep
making the car better improving the
price but improving the cost of
production and that's what we're doing
can you please help us understand maybe
some of the timing of launching FSD in
additional geographies including maybe
clarifying your recent comment about
China like new markets yeah we are a
bunch of markets where we don't
currently sell cars that we should be
selling cars in we'll see some
acceleration of that so the thing about
the all the an to neural net based
autonomy is that just like a human it
actually works pretty well without
modification in almost any market so we
plan on with the pro of The Regulators
releasing it as a supervised autonomy
system in any Market that that where we
can get regulatory approval for that
which we think includes China so yeah
it's just like a human you can go rent a
car in a foreign country and you can
drive pretty well obviously if you're if
you live in that country you'll drive
better and so we will make the car drive
better in these other countries with
country specific training but it can
drive quite well almost everywhere and
understands that it shouldn't hit things
no matter whether or not you feel that
Supply constraints that you mentioned
throughout the release impacted the
results and maybe can you help us
quantify that and is that why you have
some confidence in N growth in 2024 yeah
if you're' got cars that are sitting on
ships they obviously cannot delivered to
people and if you've got de excess
demand for one for model 3 or model Y in
one market but you don't have it there
it's like it's a quite a logist it's
it's extremely complex Logistics
situation so you know and I'd say also
the we did over complicate the sales
process which we've just in the past
week week or so have greatly simplified
so the it just it became far too complex
to buy a Tesla whereas it should just be
you can buy the car in under a minute so
we're getting back to the you can buy
Tesla in under a minute interface from
what was quite complex and your comments
around distributed inference can you
talk about what that approach is
unlocking Beyond what's happening in the
vehicle right now that's why I think
it's analogous to Amazon web services
where people didn't expect that AWS
would be the most valuable part of
Amazon when it started out as a
bookstore so that was on nobody's radar
but they found that they had excess
compute because the compute needs would
spike to extreme levels for brief
periods of the year and then they had
idle compute for the rest of the year so
then what should they do with all that
excess compute for the rest of the year
that's yeah monetized so it seems like
no-brainer to say okay if we've got
millions and then tens of millions of
vehicles out there where the computers
are idle most of the time that we might
as well have them do something useful
yeah exactly and that if you get to 100
million vehicle level which I think we
will at some point get to then and
you've got a kilowatt of usable compute
and maybe you're on Hardware 6 or seven
by that time then you really I think you
have on the order of 100 gaw of usable
compute which might be more than anyone
more than any company probably more than
any company like technically like apple
would have the most amount of
distributed computer but you can't use
it because you can't get the you can't
just run the phone at full power and
drain the battery yep so whereas for the
car even if you're a kilowatt level
referance computer which is crazy power
compared to a phone if you've got a 50
or 60 Kow hour pack it's still not a big
deal to run your plug with your plug in
or not plugged in or not plugged in you
could run for 10 hours and use 10
kilowatt hours with your kilowatt of
compute forever yeah got buil in liquid
cool thermal management yeah exactly for
data centers it's already there in the
car exactly so it's distributed power
generation just distributed access to
power and distributed Cooling and it's
already paid for looking at the the 4680
ramp can talk about how close you are to
Target yields and when you might start
to accelerate we're making good progress
on that but I I don't think it's super
important for at least in near term as
as L said we think it will be exceed the
competitiveness of suppliers by the end
of this year and then we will continue
to improve it a big part of the
4680 T during interal sales was a hedge
against how what would happen with our
suppliers because for a while there it
was very difficult because every big car
maker put in massive battery orders and
so the prices the per kilow hour of of
batter of lithium batteries went to
crazy numbers crazy levels Bonkers just
Bonkers okay we've got to have some
hedge here to deal with cost per kilow
hours numbers that would double what we
anticipated if we have internal cell
production then we have that hge against
demand shocks with too much demand so
that's really the way to think about
it's not like we want to take on a whole
bunch of problems that just for the hell
of it we we we did this s program in
order to address the crazy increase in
cost per kilow hour from our suppliers
due to gigantic orders placed by every
car maker on Earth and once again would
just like to strongly recommend that
anyone who is thinking about the Tesla
stock should really Drive FSD 12.3 You'
really you you you can't it's impossible
to understand the company if you do not
do this you mentioned that autoc cogs
per unit for the nextg vehicle would
decline by 50% versus the current 3 and
Y on that topic of 4680 cells I I I know
you know you mentioned it you really
thought of it more as like a hedge
against against Rising battery cost from
other OEM what seems to be happening is
that the unless I'm missing something
the orders for batteries from other
order makers have declined dramatically
so we're seeing much more competitive
prices for sales from our suppliers
dramatically more competitive than in
the past it is clear that a lot of our
suppliers have excess capacity yeah now
this is going to wax and Wayne obviously
there's going to be a boom and bust in
in battery cell production you know
where production exceeds Supply and then
Supply exceeds production and back and
forth I know DRM or something but it's
like what is true today will not be true
in in the future there's going to be
somewhat of a boom and bus cycle here
and then there are additional
complications by with govern incentives
like the inflation reduction act the IRS
always found like a funny name for
comical name yeah is it like the Irish
Republican Army the internet research
agency from Russia independent
retirement account yeah exactly Roth IRA
has Force FID man situations which which
Ira wins ises complicate the incentive
structure so that there's there there is
perhaps a stronger demand for cells that
are produced in the US than outside the
US but then how long does the
IRA I don't know
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