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There's a new job posting on the Tesla careers page for the head of business development for the semi-truck for EMEA, which is Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It looks like the location could be in Amsterdam or Berlin. Tesla is looking for a manager in Europe to build and maintain customer relationships and plan for Tesla's future semi-deployments. This person will regularly meet with prospective European semi-customers to understand use cases, needs, and duty cycles. Eventually, they'll work with individual site managers to spec vehicles and associated charging infrastructure. And finally, this person may work with government agencies and customers on projects involving external funding.
That comes at a great time because the Tesla Semi is set to make its European debut, as the Semi will be one of the most intriguing exhibitions at the IAA transportation show in Hanover, Germany starting September 21st. But we have the CEO of Chinese truck manufacturer Windrose saying that their upcoming electric truck is a direct challenge to the Tesla Semi. Windrose just announced plans to build a new assembly plant in the US to sidestep those Chinese tariffs. There are reports out there saying this truck already has the lowest coefficient of drag of any electric semi, but that's dependent on something at least for the US.
Windrose is hoping to use externally mounted cameras feeding vertically oriented tablets in lieu of traditional side mirrors. So if they get approval, their truck will have a drag coefficient of .2755. For comparison, the Tesla Semi is .36, the lower the better. The Windrose CEO said the US market is friendly towards Chinese heavy electric trucks because of the fact the tariffs on imported trucks are much lower than those on cars. Many of our clients are US firms, for example Nike, and we can serve them in their home market.
Windrose is still a pre-production truck, but they're saying it'll be at the same price as the Tesla Semi around $250,000 with a 700kWh battery which would be good for up to 418 miles of range fully loaded at 49 tons. The Tesla Semi has a 900kWh battery pack and can do around 500 miles on a single charge fully loaded. Windrose says US companies account for the majority of its approximately 6,500 standing orders, orders which will ideally be filled by their planned US assembly plant in Georgia which will piece together chassis and other vehicle parts made in China. And the company plans to expand its manufacturing operations in the EU.
This assembly plant in Georgia is aiming for delivery of this truck there by 2025. The company did say they plan to make and deliver that order book of around 6,500 over the next three years, but they did not say how much they'll invest in the US or give specifics on how many orders came from buyers in the US. But doing some digging, Windrose will start delivering its first batch of electric trucks in China this month and they aim to achieve a global production capacity of more than 10,000 per year by the end of 2027. We don't know how long it's going to take Tesla to ramp up its new semi-factory, but their capacity goal is 50,000 per year.
In the US, retail class 8 truck sales are about 200,000 to 300,000 per year, so there's plenty of room for more than one company to win in this market. So this is new competition for the Tesla Semi in the United States and maybe earlier than some were expecting, but we still need to see the final production specs and real world performance, a major hurdle that the Tesla Semi has already conquered. Again though, if these electric trucks can be more economical, which all signs are pointing to right now, there's plenty of market share available for a few players to begin earning.
Heads up, there are a few new items available for redemption in the Tesla referral program. Like an air compressor and a tire repair kit, a new cyber soft blanket for a thousand credits, which I did acquire, some new carbon fiber wheel caps for the Model 3, and some others like a Tesla logo branding iron. So if you're interested, have a look.
The light bar for the Cybertruck is about to begin installations, but the word is that service text will not plug it in after they install it. The main reason this is really intended only for off-road use. And Tesla doesn't want owners turning this light on on the way home from the service center. Tesla by-law can't install the light bar electronics and configure the vehicle for light bar control. Tesla requires the tech to install a roll of blackout film on the lens of the light bar. This ensures the truck can't light up the road, even if the owner accidentally engages the light bar from the touchscreen. Add another one to the list of Tesla's famous workarounds.
Cybertruck 的灯条即将开始安装,但有消息称,安装后服务人员不会将其接通。主要原因是这款灯条实际上只适用于越野使用,Tesla 不希望车主在从服务中心回家的途中开启这盏灯。法规规定 Tesla 不能安装灯条的电子设备或配置车辆的灯条控制。Tesla 要求技术人员在灯条的镜头上安装一层遮光膜,以确保即使车主不小心在触摸屏上开启了灯条,卡车也不会照亮道路。这又是 Tesla 著名的变通方法之一。
Chargepoint just announced its new OmniPort, an EV connector solution that ensures any EV can charge in any space regardless of connector type. The easiest way to think of this, it's just like Tesla's Magic Dock. OmniPort is the only publicly available solution to solve North America's connector confusion across both AC and DC charging. It will be incorporated into select, Chargepoint AC and DC charging stations at no additional cost. Drivers just need to enter their vehicles make and model into the app, tap to charge, and allow the charging station to automatically release the correct connector type. For those that don't use the app, a driver simply selects the correct connector on the charging screen. There's no need to download any dedicated app if you prefer credit card payment and the OmniPort enables full support for 800 volt architecture. In addition to availability on new chargers, OmniPort will begin shipping by the end of the year and can be retrofitted onto certain Chargepoint chargers.
So like always, you can initiate a charge directly from the Chargepoint app or you can come up, tap your device, and now I'm driving an Ford F-150 Lightning. So I select which side and it's automatically going to deploy a CCS connector. Now let's say that I came today with a friend who's driving a Tesla, I can manually select Nax and I get a Nax connector deployed.
Reading articles like this, on one hand I'm encouraged because it'll help the public charging situation, but on the other hand I can't help but think how much easier things would have been if the whole industry would have just picked one standard in the early days and everybody stuck to that. There's a video going around of a Cybertruck hauling a pallet full of quick crete and they're saying that it's hauling 5,400 pounds. A quick search tells me that a pallet of quick crete is 80 pound bags and there's 42 per pallet, which is 3,360 pounds. The Cybertruck payload capacity is listed at 2,500 pounds. Apparently these gentlemen did not have any problems but I just felt like I needed to say just because you maybe can does not mean that you should.
We got the breakdown for Tesla China's wholesale figure for the month of July. Exports came in at 27,890 leaving 46,227 domestically. Thus year to date, January through July, the domestic number is still down 0.3% year over year. And the export number is down 18.1%. It is true that this domestic figure is the best first month of a quarter ever for Tesla China as many are saying. But we have to keep in mind at least a portion of that is thanks to Tesla continually unwinding this delivery wave in which they have that heavy emphasis on exports in the first month. That's been the case historically but over the past year that's also what they've been unwinding. So not to be a downer but no matter how you slice all of these zoomed in comparisons, taking a look at the bigger picture, Gigasang High is still scrapping just to get back to the numbers it did in 2023. All of the main metrics are still down year over year.
Part of that is thanks to the Chinese competition continuing to do things like this, their 2025 version of the seal EV, a direct competitor to Tesla's Model 3 was just released. And it has some pretty impressive specs while being $8,000 to $10,000 more affordable than the Model 3. The 2025 seal base model is going to be $24,500 USD. Obviously not for sale in the US that's just the equivalent. Tesla's base Model 3 in the Chinese market starts at $32,300. Somehow the 2025 seal is using silicon carbide technology which if you remember, Tesla's actually looking to remove most of that on its next gen powertrain. The reason they gave, while the technology is very performant, it's also quite expensive.
The seal also has an 800 volt platform and a new LIDAR mounted to the roof, a first for BYD sedans. It'll do 0 to 62 miles per hour in 3.8 seconds. It has a heat pump and will be available in 61 or 80 kilowatt hour battery packs. The range for the small pack is 510 km which is 316 miles so if you convert that WLTP to the EPA cycle, it's roughly 246 miles of range. Then on the high end this vehicle should be around 315 miles on the EPA cycle. The center screen does rotate vertically and this vehicle has a heads up display. We know that to date BYD's 8-ass features have been pretty limited, especially relative to Tesla but we'll see what type of new improvements they've made in that category with this new LIDAR.
There's no way around it if you draw a trend line on this chart of Tesla's share in China's NEV market. You can see that from January of 2021 to July of this year, Tesla's gone from between 10 to 15% market share down to between 5 and 10%. Look, it would be great for Tesla to maintain a 10% plus market share in China but with only selling really two models there and all of this new competition continually flooding the market at lower prices. It just doesn't feel realistic for Tesla until the next gen platform. And don't forget those EV market share metrics really are just math as more competition floods the market, Tesla's market share is naturally going to come down even if Tesla's sales in China stayed steady which we're on track to do this year.
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The main Tesla account shared some data from Consumer Reports showing how Tesla vehicles cost the lease to maintain. This then started circulating as if this was new, but we covered this back in April. A quick refresher though, in the chart the blue is the cumulative 1-5 year cost, then the light blue is the cumulative 6-10 year cost, and the gray is the total 10 year cost. Focusing on the latter, Tesla comes in first at $4,035 followed by Buick in second at $4,900, Toyota in third, $4,900, Lincoln in fourth, $5,040, and then Ford rounds out the top 5 at $5,400.
There was a report Tesla paused all Model Y deliveries in Canada that's because they started importing again from China and the government needed to approve the rebate situation. As of today, that approval for the rebates has been updated so deliveries should be able to resume. Tesla Electric has a new partner in Sunrun, and this partnership will allow residents to receive compensation for sharing energy from their Powerwall to help the Texas grid. Customers will be compensated $400 per year per Powerwall for participation. Customers retain a portion of the energy in their batteries to provide backup power to their homes, and Sunrun will earn incremental recurring revenue for the program. This is Sunrun's first program like this in Texas, and right now it has more than 150 customers.
With Tesla's VPP program, that is in response to specific events where Powerwall energy would go to the home or to the grid. One difference with Tesla Electric is that in an ongoing basis, Tesla is basically buying and selling energy from these Powerwalls. So Tesla Electric really is an energy retailer. This partnership makes a ton of sense. Sunrun is one of the largest solar installers in the country, and they're already partnered with Tesla to install their Powerwalls, along with their solar installations. More provinces in China are now eligible to buy Tesla vehicles for their fleets. This move by government agencies in different provinces reflects China's commitment to developing the EV industry through an open-up policy. They expect provinces and regions across the country to allow more foreign brands into the procurement process.
Tesla's entry into the government procurement process shows a clear attitude of the Chinese government to encourage the development of intelligent connected vehicles, irrespective of whether the manufacturer is Chinese or foreign. A stark contrast from some other countries around the world. A researcher said Tesla and other foreign automakers are likely to land more government orders in the future. Now we have multiple different provinces where local governments, government agencies and organizations will be able to buy a range of EVs for the first time, including the Tesla Model Y. As we've been saying, this is in part thanks to the fact that Teslas have been found to comply with China's data security requirements.
I'm guessing many of you have already seen this, but Tesla did release some new accident data for quarter two of this year. I just wanted to clarify, I saw many people making the mistake saying that wait a second, Tesla's autopilot safety data was actually worse in quarter two than quarter one, so things are going the wrong direction. But with accident safety data, you really should be looking at the same quarter because this is going to be heavily weather dependent. Thus comparing quarter two of 2023 to quarter two of this year, we do see a slight improvement. I like this chart that James Dauma shared, you can see that Tesla on autopilot when it comes to miles between accidents, so the higher the better is continually getting better over time.
Compare that to the red line, which is Teslas driven by humans not on autopilot and the yellow line, which is the US average from NHTSA. The main takeaway here is that humans are not getting any better and you can argue are actually getting worse. I also saw too many people saying that this data includes FSD data, but as far as I know, it does not. This is strictly autopilot. In the methodology, Tesla says to ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which autopilot was deactivated within five seconds before impact. And we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed. Perhaps most interesting as a refresher, they don't differentiate based on the type of crash or fault. For example, more than 35% of all autopilot crashes occur when the Tesla vehicle is rear ended by another vehicle. In this way, we're confident the stats we share unquestionably show the benefits of autopilot.
Unfortunately, in South Korea at a terrible time, a Mercedes electric vehicle that was not plugged in caught on fire and because of it, 700 residents were evacuated and the fire damaged about 140 cars. 23 people were also hospitalized. Many of the chargers in South Korea are in basement-like structures of apartment buildings. Several office buildings have now banned EVs from entering and parking. We don't know how the fire started, but I found the battery in the car was made by China's Pharisees energy. As you may expect, after this, many social media users are now questioning the viability of EVs. I say it's bad timing because in June of this year, there was a lithium battery factory that caught fire and killed over 20 people.
Here's a picture of the aftermath of that Mercedes EQE. As expected, Tesla's continuing the build-out of its private 5G network across all factories now including Shanghai. An analyst from S&S, a company working with Tesla on this project said Tesla continues to remain very tight-lipped about the scale of its private 5G rollout. With private 5G, we enable mobile machines to communicate ultra reliably and just keep running all the time. On the Cybertruck, Kyle Conner said Tesla asked for the Cybertruck back for some engineering research. In return, they're upgrading his motor to one of the latest pedigree that promises more reliability and efficiency. You know how Elon says it usually takes three generations for a product to be truly great? Well, I can't wait to see what the third generation of the Cybertruck looks like.
Just one more anecdote that these legacy OEMs are not going away as fast as many were rooting for. We have Honda's quarterly operating profit setting a new all-time high. The week Yen did of course play a role in this new all-time high, but so did sales of hybrid vehicles. More and more, it's looking that hybrid sales for legacy OEMs are going to serve as the profit bridge for them to go from ICE to EV. GM has finally begun shipping the Sierra EV Denali Edition 1 to dealers. For this edition 1, GM on their website has an estimated range of 440 miles, 0 to 60 in less than 4.5 seconds max trailering up to 10,000 pounds. And how could you forget the crab walk? This edition will start right around $99,000.
只是另一件佐证,那些传统汽车制造商不会像许多人所期望的那样迅速消失。我们看到,现代的季度营业利润创下了历史新高。日元的疲软当然助力了这一新高,但混合动力汽车的销售也同样起了作用。越来越多的迹象表明,传统汽车制造商将利用混合动力汽车的销售作为从燃油车向电动车过渡的盈利桥梁。
另外,通用汽车终于开始向经销商运送Sierra EV Denali首发版。在其官网上,通用汽车对这款首发版的预计续航里程为440英里,0到60英里加速时间少于4.5秒,最大拖曳能力为10,000磅。还有怎么能忘记它的蟹行模式?这款车型售价将开始在99,000美元左右。
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