Welcome to Electrified, it's your host, Dylan Loomis. First up today, reservation holders for the Cybertruck in Canada are finally getting their emails to place their order. Reservation holders will be among the first to take delivery in Canada starting in October of this year. But it's not just Canadians getting the email as reservation holders in Mexico are getting it as well.
There was some momentary consternation out there today, as for a moment, the Cybertruck had a federal luxury tax on the all-wheel drive variant of over $8000 and over $13,000 for the cyberbeast. It seems like that was a mistake because in Canada, the federal luxury tax is for vehicles over $100,000 but that are also under a certain GVWR. Gross vehicle weight rating. Any vehicles above 8,501 pounds should be exempt from that tax and the Cybertruck is indeed above that number. From the Cybertruck owner's manual, its GVWR is over 8,800 pounds.
Shortly thereafter, it was confirmed the Cybertruck is now luxury tax-free. And yes, the online configurator in Canada has been updated to reflect the change. I did see a lot of people bokeying at the price for the foundation series all-wheel drive, which in this case is the base model for now, being at $138,000. But when you factor in the exchange rate from the US dollar to the Canadian dollar, it's effectively the same price right around $100,000, which leaves the cyberbeast starting at $166,000.
Both variants of the Cybertruck are expected to be delivered in October or November 2024. I was able to find some screenshots for Mexico and the all-wheel drive variant is starting at $2.2 million, which is about $117,000. Estimated delivery September to October this year. And the Cybertruck is $2.6 million, which is $138,000. Same delivery time frame. At the same time in the US, you no longer need a reservation to place an order so anybody can head to the website and buy an all-wheel drive or cyberbeast foundation series.
Tesla has also expanded the availability to demo drive a Cybertruck. I'll have this link below. You can plug in your zip code and there are more locations available. It looks like Tesla's gone through all the reservation holders for the Cybertruck in the US, meaning roughly 15 to 20,000 people have opted for the foundation series. The expectation has always been that there were well over 1 million reservations for the Cybertruck and now it's looking like Tesla will end up selling between 15 and 20,000 foundation series Cybertruck in the US after working through that whole list.
There are people out there saying that's not a good sign for demand. Personally, I don't really agree with that. I think it's pretty obvious a majority of people are waiting for the more affordable variants, especially when you consider some of the challenges with the benefits of the foundation series. One being FSD still is not actually delivered to the Cybertruck, although it should be right around the corner. And two, when it comes to power share, many users were reporting much higher installation costs than I think many were expecting. All of this brings us one step closer to the more affordable variants of the Cybertruck and it's looking like that may happen sometime during quarter three.
Tesla owners of Kentucky shared they got word that Tesla's sales license has been granted in Kentucky just today. Tesla will be selling from Louisville soon. And to date, in Kentucky, direct sales by manufacturers have been restricted. This should mean that Tesla can now offer financing and leases in Kentucky as well. Elizabeth Warren just sent a 10-page letter to Tesla chair member Robin Denholm, basically criticizing the board about its lack of oversight and asking for answers when it comes to Elon's involvement and conflicts of interest with his other ventures.
Senator Warren has long been out to get the ultra-rich and of course, Elon falls in that category and they've had many public disputes in the past. Remember Warren's ultra-millionaire tax act, which was looking to tax capital, not income, and it would take 2% of household wealth north of $50 million up to $1 billion. And then 3% over $1 billion. To that, Elon said transferring capital from highly efficient capital allocators like entrepreneurs to highly inefficient allocators like the government would destroy the economy making everyone worse off. By the way, Sam Bankman Fried's father is Elizabeth Warren's tax legislation advisor. I really don't think it's worth spending too much time on this, the main reason being that Senator Warren has written letters like this to Tesla's board in the past. And so far, Tesla nor the board have actually ever responded to her. So I'm not sure they will this time around either. She brought up things like the chip reallocation, which we covered at length earlier this year. She argued that the existence of XAI creates unavoidable conflicts of interest, but again, we've talked at length how they're really not direct competitors when you actually understand the business models of both. Not to mention that long term Tesla is likely going to benefit heavily from the existence of XAI. And that most of the talent currently at XAI was never coming to Tesla no matter what they offer. So for Elon, it was let them go to some other company or start XAI Warren asked for the answers to her 10 questions no later than August 23rd this year. Warren still hyper focused on Tesla and Elon. But meanwhile, not batting an eye at things like insider trading in the government or the pentagon failing its independent audit now for six years in a row. I see states going after the fair share of the rich that create all the jobs in this country through their risk appetite in the capital they put to work. And we want to punish them. That's so un-American. It's a new issue that I don't think we've dealt with before. But to punish entrepreneurship, which essentially what is going on here, the first time we've ever had multi-billionaires from one idea of the Tesla idea, for example, the amount of jobs my son works for Tesla's the amount of jobs he's created. You may like him, you may hate him. There are very few people that take the risks that he takes that are willing to take those risks. And as a result, he deserves the rewards. Having politicians tell me that I've done something wrong, I find that very distasteful just because my outcome is success. That's un-American.
Acacia energy has started construction of a 410 megawatt hour battery storage project that will use Tesla megapacks commercial operations are expected to begin in 2026. Some of you have been asking about the sizing of these projects. For me, just a simple rule of thumb from zero up to 500 megawatt hours, those are smaller projects from 500 megawatt hours to 1000 megawatt hours or one gigawatt hour. Those are moderate size. Then in my book, anything over 1000 megawatt hours or one gigawatt hour would be a large project. They said the brandale best is one of four projects under development in the state. And it's clear that the Queensland energy sector is serious about the transition.
Charge map has now integrated Tesla's superchargers into its program across most of Europe, including Germany. Charge map users do still use the Tesla mobile app. Charge map users have access to the supercharger network and more than 1500 others. As the name implies, Charge map aggregates many of the different charging providers into one app that you can sort in filter. In short, their inclusion of the supercharger network should provide a slight boost to Tesla's utilization rates across Europe. For the Model S and the Model X in the United States right now, Tesla is offering a new three year bundle for $5,000, which will include FSD, free supercharging and premium connectivity.
Charge Map 现在已经在大部分欧洲地区(包括德国)将特斯拉超级充电站整合到其程序中。 Charge Map 用户仍然需要使用特斯拉手机应用程序。 Charge Map 用户可以进入超级充电站网络以及超过1500个其他充电站。 正如其名字所暗示的那样,Charge Map 将许多不同的充电服务提供商聚合到一个应用程序中,用户可以进行筛选和过滤。 简而言之,整合超级充电站网络应当可以稍微提高特斯拉在欧洲的使用率。 在美国,特斯拉目前为 Model S 和 Model X 提供一个新套餐,售价5000美元,包括三年内享受FSD(完全自动驾驶)、免费超级充电和高级连接服务。
Naturally, a three year bundle and you would think this would be a good option for people looking to lease. If you just paid the $99 per month though, over a three year term that works out to $3,564 premium connectivity for three years adds another $300, meaning you would have to supercharge $1,136 worth just to break even on this deal. If you assume 10,000 miles per year for the lease over three years is 30,000 miles, and then if you assume an average cost per mile for supercharging of 11 cents, that would be about $3,300 worth of free supercharging with this deal. That is, if you drive the max mileage allotment and do all of your charging at a supercharger.
The word is, they're going to offer this bundle in Canada as well, but they've yet to put it on the Canadian configurator. In the US, Quicksilver is now an option for the Model 3 for an additional $2,000. On Tesla's supercharger page, they now have Nissan listed as coming soon. In 2023, Nissan sold just over 20,000 EVs in the US between the Aria and the Leaf. FSD version 12.5.1.3 has now begun rolling out to some early access customers so far, hardware for only, this is on software2024.26.10.
Al Root wrote a piece for Barons talking about his experience with FSD12.5. It was very fair, but overall he did say it's much better than it once was. He said the car isn't perfect, some mistakes get made, but the overall experience with version 12.5 was eye opening. The car simply drove way better than in 2023 and early 2024. For me, the number of interventions was down with version 12.5 and the number of drives with zero interventions was up. It may not seem like much, but a fair review, dare I say nearly a positive review from a mainstream publication is a breath of fresh air. Rivian Tracker on X said they were able to confirm the charging port for the upcoming R2 has been moved to the rear driver side which will make it fully compatible with Tesla superchargers.
This means the port will be in the same position as Tesla vehicles and the R2 is supposed to use Nax natively. This upcoming Rivian feature is pretty awesome and one that hopefully Tesla will actually copy from Rivian. In a Rivian software release, this is what you'll see saved to your USB drive. Every launch gets the driving data in times stamped in the video. Peak G4s, 0 to 60 time, top speed, state of charge, pretty nice. We knew retaliation was coming from China and here it is, they've lodged a complaint with a World Trade Organization over the EU's decision to impose tariffs. They said we urged the EU to immediately correct its wrongdoing and together safeguard China-EU economic and trade cooperation as well as the stability of the EV supply chain.
China has already threatened retaliation against European farmers and planemakers. For whatever it's worth, a law professor said the utility of the WTO case is limited as the case is likely to take at least two years to conclude. Remember earlier this year China filed a WTO complaint over US EV subsidies. Tesla stock closed the day at $200 flat, up 0.58% while the Nasdaq was up 0.51%. It was another very low volume day for Tesla trading about 61 million shares below the average volume the past 30 days. Hope you guys have a wonderful and a safe weekend. Please like the video if you did. You can find me on X linked below and a huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters.