Welcome to Electrified, it's your host Dylan Loomis, a quick channel update. There will be no video for me tomorrow on Friday as we have a wedding this weekend, and then after that, we're actually taking our first proper cross-country road trip in the Model Y. So starting next week, I'll be coming to you from a new location for a bit, and as long as travels go according to plan, I should be back uploading either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
When it comes to Rivian, I've seen some questions out there if they're going to open up their adventure network to other automakers and at a recent event in New York, RJ Scoringe let us know. RJ said, and our network were about to open up, so today it's Rivian only. I'm really excited to open it up so that there are two great networks being built in the United States. The other one he was referencing was Tesla's, and he said Tesla's been a great partner to us on this, and he confirmed Rivian engineers work closely with Tesla to ensure compatibility and seamless charging.
For now, the adventure network is still CCS, but Rivian is saying that it should be open to other automakers later this year. Some local reporting in Korea is saying that Tesla Korea has entered the certification process to sell the Cybertruck in the domestic market. If Tesla Korea receives the sales certification for the Cybertruck, it will be able to establish a domestic sales base. Tesla Korea has not yet officially announced the domestic sales schedule for the Cybertruck.
Yesterday, Tesla North America posted the first Cybertruck deliveries have begun in Mexico with a little kickoff event. Back to Korea, the Cybertruck did actually start a tour over there on September 6th. If this happens, it would be the first market outside of North America to open up for public Cybertruck sales. Some other countries have of course been importing the vehicle privately. Another Korean source said, the vehicle was sent directly by Tesla for the certification process highlighting Tesla's direct involvement.
I certainly was not expecting a market outside of North America so soon, so we'll keep an eye on this one. I'm sure most of you have seen by now that the Invites for Tesla's Robotax event on October 10th have begun going out, and it's titled We Robot. The invite has a similar graphic design to the press to hold for some in-button that we saw in the potential Tesla app for the Robotaxi network. Elon is doing us no favors when it comes to keeping our expectations in check, saying on X this will be one for the history books.
I'm hearing that some people are able to bring A plus one, but then others are not. Tickets are non-transferable, you have to be over 21 to attend, there will likely be alcohol there, IDs will be checked, doors open at 5pm, and check-in begins at 5.30, remarks begin at 7pm. I don't want to go crazy with speculation with the robot, it's optimus involved. In the back, in this lens looking design, you do see some ones and zeroes, some binary. And Steven Mark Ryan had some interesting thoughts about these dots, potentially representing the number of riders, and then the lines being the length of a trip.
我听说有些人可以带一位陪伴,但其他人不可以。票是不可转让的,参加活动必须年满21岁,现场可能有酒精饮料,会检查身份证明。活动在下午5点开门,登记从下午5点30分开始,发言在晚上7点开始。我不想对机器人和Optimus大肆猜测。在后面这个类似镜头的设计中,你会看到一些零和一的二进制代码。Steven Mark Ryan 对这些点有一些有趣的想法,他认为可能代表骑行的人数,而那些线则可能表示骑行的距离。
For we, will there be multiple vehicles unveiled? I love all of the speculation, let us know your best guesses, but ultimately I'm just going to wait the remaining roughly two weeks. Curious what you guys think about what Jason Calicanis said about Tesla and Autonomy, he said there are a dozen folks who will solve Autonomy in the next three years. Part of the problem with a statement like this is, what do you mean by Autonomy because generalized Autonomy and then geofenced Autonomy are very different animals. For me, I still don't see any world where anybody else other than Tesla actually solves for generalized Autonomy in the next three years.
And frankly, you can make the argument that Tesla might not solve it in the next three years. I'm not saying I would make that argument, but I do think it's a fair one. Jason said Tesla does not have to partner, but partnering is the quickest way to reach the 10,000 plus cities Uber operates in globally, which is true. And I've said in the past, I think there's a chance Tesla does actually partner with Uber like we've seen other companies do. However, if Tesla believes there's a more efficient way to vertically integrate and control more of the process in house, then I think they're going to take it, not only just to have more control over the experience, but to ultimately keep more of the revenue coming in.
Jason said partnering, let's Tesla Waymo crews BYD focus on car production and software while Uber focuses on operations and cleaning the cars. I'd also add partnering with Uber would actually expose more people to both Tesla and FSD faster as well. There's obviously pros and cons and trade offs both ways, but hopefully two weeks from now will have a lot more information to go on.
Jason 说合作是指:让特斯拉、Waymo 和 比亚迪 专注于汽车生产和软件开发,而让优步 专注于运营和清洁汽车。此外,与优步合作实际上还能让更多人更快地接触到特斯拉和全自动驾驶技术。显然,这种合作有利有弊,但希望两周后我们会有更多信息支持。
Keys gave us another update on the latest with the regulatory environment for autonomy in Europe. He said system initiated maneuvers on highways will become the new standard meaning Tesla's technology will be further optimized for hands off driving on the highway. But that means some countries are still pushing to limit that to the highway, meaning the city streets driving for FSD supervised would have limitations. Not all of the documents from the latest meetings are public yet, so we still have to wait for a lot of this to become finalized. But it's looking promising at least on the highway for those system initiated maneuvers, so things like lane changes would not require driver confirmation.
There's some new drama at Giga Berlin between Tesla and E-Game at all, one of the trade unions. In recent weeks, Tesla has dispatched managers to check up on about two dozen employees who have drawn their pay packets while claiming to be too sick to work over the past nine months. They're saying it's not uncommon for more than 15% of the plant's workforce to be absent because of an illness and on occasion the rate has been above 30%. Naturally, the union is arguing that this stems primarily from stress, overwork, and a culture of fear. But Andre Tieric, Tesla's plant manager claimed some workers were taking advantage of Germany's generous labor protection laws and were unnecessarily calling in sick. In his analysis, some phenomena have become obvious. On Fridays and late shifts, about 5% more employees take sick leave than on other weekdays. It suggests that the German social system is being exploited to some extent.
Tieric said the company had identified about 200 members of staff who were still being paid but had not turned up for work at all this year. They submit a new sick note from the doctor at least every six weeks. And finally, he insisted that the home visits were common practice in the industry and the firm just wanted to appeal to the employees work ethic. That just reiterates the fact that optimists cannot come soon enough. Also at Giggabrelin, Tesla has begun the next phase of the expansion. They're working on a construction road that'll be used to transport materials and alleviate traffic on nearby public roads. But get this, the clearing of the forest for this phase was under police protection because you guessed it, those protesters in the camp are still there. The reason given for Tesla starting to clear some of these trees in the middle of the night was that it allowed the workers to get machinery on site and begin operations without delay. For the protesters, the police have indicated they will not evict them as long as the demonstrations remain peaceful.
Axios just put out some data saying that overall 49 out of every 100,000 insured cars are stolen every year. By contrast, only one out of every 100,000 insured Tesla Model 3s was stolen. When it comes to United States thefts, the GMC Sierra was the number one most stolen vehicle with 227 per 100,000. The lowest theft claims come from versions of the Tesla Model 3 and the Model Y. Even as the volume of EV thefts has increased over time, it's still extremely low in comparison to gas-powered vehicles. The two reasons they gave, one, the technology in EVs is not yet common knowledge for the thieves, and two, oftentimes EVs are parked in a garage or kept near the home for charging purposes, which makes them harder to steal. Plus, if thieves were smart, they would know about things like Century Mode and Tesla's ability to track the vehicle from the mobile app and all of the other safety features.
Bloomberg NEF, in partnership with the Smart Freight Center, just put out a pretty detailed report on the electric semi-market around the world. Zero emission truck sales were close to 38,000 units globally in the first half of 2024 and are set to be over 1.5% of total sales in 2024. But sales in China account for more than 80% of global volume with adoption approaching 5.5% in the first half of 2024. In Europe, sales are concentrated in a handful of countries, while the US market shows only limited market growth. Encouragingly, battery electric trucks accounted for more than 90% of zero emission, medium and heavy truck sales in the first half of the year. The rest are primarily fuel-cell trucks that have been mostly sold in China, where subsidies and availability of hydrogen fuel have supported the market. They said electric trucks are quickly becoming economically competitive to equivalent diesel vehicles starting with shorter routes. Even before 2030, heavy-duty long-haul battery trucks can also reach total cost of ownership parity. Bear in mind, they're using data for all electric trucks, so if Tesla was singled out, they clearly have the best efficiency so the numbers would be different.
China and the United States are by far the largest truck markets globally, accounting for between 17 and 22% of total 2023 and first half 2024 sales. Just so you know, in the report, they account for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and exclude light-duty commercial vehicles like delivery vans and buses. The global truck fleet, including medium and heavy-duty trucks, exceeded 83 million vehicles in 2023, growing just under 3% from the year before. The US is home to most medium and heavy-duty trucks at about 18% of the global fleet. The global market for low and zero-emission trucks has steadily been growing the past three years and the first half of this year it was more than 16 times larger than in the same period in 2021. The US market for zero-emission trucks is small, with about 1,000 units sold in the first half of 2024. The market lacks supply of suitable models and a few startup manufacturers have failed yet to scale up production. Translation, it's still a blue ocean out there for the Tesla Semi. And you can see on the chart in the second quarter of this year for the first time global sales of Zev trucks is over 20,000 units, the majority of which are full battery electric. Here you see the pattern for adoption rates in different countries, no surprise China leading the way but a large portion of that is driven by fuel cell vehicles. Overall though, E trucks were just under 2% of total truck sales in the second quarter.
This right here though was probably the most surprising thing I read since 2022, the share of LFP battery cells has grown rapidly and now accounts for more than 80% of capacity deployed in the sector globally. You would think that higher density chemistries like NMC or NCA would be used more often but apparently that's not the case. It's a very in-depth report I'll have the whole thing linked below if you want to check it out but clearly the market is still in its infancy, progress is being made but so much opportunity up for grabs. One of the most frustrating things for me recently has been the realization that by and large the media has become narrative pushers rather than fact presenters. If this reality is as frustrating to any of you as it is to me I would strongly encourage you to check out ground news. They do sponsor the channel but the truth is this fight against narrative pushers is far bigger than just my channel. Ground news is out to fix our broken media ecosystem by not using manipulative algorithms. They're affiliated with precisely zero corporate media or tech companies and you can access breaking news on the go with their mobile app in addition to their website and browser extension. And you can check them out at ground.news slash electrified which is linked below. Lately I find myself using the my news bias a lot more often.
Here's a snapshot of the past week for me. I realized only 6% of the articles I read were local and local reporters usually have the best on the scene reporting so that's an action item for me going forward. Even if you don't like politics like myself I believe it's our duty to be informed and to vote. Ground news is down my favorite way to achieve this because you can instantly see the political bias of each source with these tags as well as who owns each source which can tell us a lot. Plus the blind spot feature is as critical as ever showing stories disproportionately reported by both sides.
I know many of you have already signed up for the ground news vantage plan which is the one to get unlimited access and here are just a few messages from you guys I've seen as of late. So if you haven't already and you'd like to support a company doing what I believe to be crucial work you can get 40% off the vantage plan at ground.news slash electrified or you can use the QR code right on the screen. It looks like Sawyer got a message that Tesla has launched yet another virtual power plan this time with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power the largest municipal utility in the US. In the communication Tesla sent out join the VPP now to earn up to $350 per power wall in your first full year of participation. On the Tesla shop you'll find a new wireless portable charger for $130 that allows you to charge up to two Qi enabled devices at the same time. It's magnetic with wireless charging and has a 5000 milliamp hour capacity. You're definitely paying a premium but they do look pretty cool and you can charge them in your Tesla.
AI driver just put out a video with some new actually smart summon clips so want to share a highlight. The way that this version is seemingly able to predict the intention of other drivers is just seriously next level. Like you can see this person backing out of their parking spot here and it stops and gives them plenty of room to feel comfortable but watch how early it starts proceeding because it knows they're about to take off and move again. This is definitely starting to feel a lot more like full self driving where there's definitely some end to end stuff going on here. For the usual toward the end of the quarter some Wall Street analysts are coming out of the woodwork to increase their expectations for Tesla's Q3 deliveries. Dan Levy from Barclays is actually now expecting 470,000 for the quarter. The analyst consensus is hovering right around 460,000.
AI 驾驶刚刚发布了一段包含一些新型智能召唤功能的视频,想分享一下其中的亮点。这一版本能够预测其他司机意图的能力真是达到一个新水平。比如,你可以看到这个人在这里倒车出停车位,而系统停下并给他们充足的空间让他们感到舒适,但你可以注意到系统多么早就开始继续行驶,因为它知道他们即将再次启动并移动。这感觉真的越来越像完全自动驾驶了,其中显然有一些端到端的操作。
按惯例,每季度接近末尾时,一些华尔街分析师会纷纷提高对特斯拉第三季度交付量的预期。巴克莱的丹·利维现在预计本季度交付量为47万台,而分析师的普遍共识大约是46万台。
This screen was shared for the Cybertruck light bar software options and you can see three different settings. There are ditch lights, flood lights and then you can have them both on it once for max output. The ditch lights increase the light on the side so you can see off the side of the road and the flood lights focus the light on the center so you can see puddles and things ahead of you. There are some third party light bars out there but as far as I know they don't get access to that software control. I'll just put one fact for you which I think really underscores why the current EV tariff negotiations in Europe are so important. Almost 60% of all Chinese EV global exports are actually going to date to Europe. That's why the current negotiations in Brussels over the high tariffs are so tense and really still just hitting up right now. Those duties, those tariffs could be as high as about 35% on addition to the 10% tariffs that are already existing.
The breaking use today is that we understand the EU and China will continue negotiations even as the EU looks to perhaps pass through these tariffs as soon as the beginning of next month. What is missing is the affordable supply of electric vehicles in Europe by European manufacturers? Rivian is now doing its best century mode impersonation with what they're calling gear guard live. They said you can now see what's happening in and around your vehicle from almost anywhere right from the palm of your hand through the Rivian mobile app. Hungary has a new subsidy scheme to encourage mass adoption of battery storage. However they're starting from a very small base they have about 40 megawatt hours of battery storage on the grid but they're looking to bump that up to over 1.3 megawatt hours over the next few years. A huge jump but still quite small given that some projects around the world are bigger than this number alone.
The prime name that Toyota has been using for some plug-in hybrids is going away starting with 2025 model years. Instead they're just going to call these vehicles plug-in hybrids. The blue halo is also going away. Jeep is now going to consider traditional hybrids as a more cost effective alternative to plug-ins and full electrics. They'll focus on these HEVs in a range of segments because the technology does not require the costly batteries used in plug-ins and EVs. Between plug-in and HEV there's quite a bit of associated cost as we have the engine and a fairly good sized battery within the plug-in hybrid. For reference those costly HEV batteries the average size of a battery for last year in an HEV was about 1.3 kilowatt hours. Translation Jeep still has no idea how to have a cost effective electric supply chain. As I keep saying over and over these EV supply chains for these legacy OEMs are not going to build themselves eventually they're going to have to take the step and work through the hard challenges. The longer they put it off and use these hybrids as a crutch to maintain profitability the more it's going to hurt years into the future. And yeah it's probably going to take a while because consumers are for whatever reason loving the hybrid options right now but that's not going to last forever the way I see it. It's not just cars, trucks, bikes and boats but we also have excavators and bulldozers that are also being electrified. This company Fort Tisku just signed a $2.8 billion deal that includes the purchase of 360 autonomous battery electric haul trucks. The 240 ton haul trucks and the dozers will use electric power and propulsion systems developed by Fort Tisku and they'll also supply the hundreds of giant batteries needed for the machines. They said it's an important step to eliminate emissions from our Australian iron ore operations by the end of the decade. The announcement came the same day that Fort Tisku also announced an agreement to develop battery electric trains with Australia's downer which will eliminate emissions on the lengthy routes from mines to port. And Fort Tisku also developed a fast charging solution which can provide up to 6 megawatts of power and charge the current battery electric T264 in just 30 minutes. The CEO of Fort Tisku said we have more than 200 autonomous trucks across our mine sites traveling the equivalent of two trips to the moon and back Cox automotive just put out its quarter three report for this year for the US. I like this chart showing the Fed funds rate the past 20 years because you can see despite the recent rate cuts were still near the highs of the last 20 years. For the dealer sentiment this quarter the political climate is now a more important factor that's holding back business having an 8% jump quarter over quarter. Looking at OEM performance we'll focus on the year to date column you can see that Tesla is down 7.3% for the year.
The only brand on this list doing worse is Delantis down 17.3%. When it comes to the ED market share it looks like we're going to come in just shy of 9% for quarter three and compared to quarter three of last year we're looking at an 8% growth rate year over year. It's pretty clear from the end of last year the ED market share really has been stagnant. I guess the silver lining though would be ice sales are now down to 81.6% whereas in 2021 they were still up around 93% but it's the hybrid electric vehicles that are growing a bit faster than the fully electric. If you're wondering why the ED growth is stagnating well this is a huge part for the US market the average transaction price for a new EV in August was $56,500.
The South China Morning Post reported that the Chinese automakers are finally turning the page when it comes to autonomy and making sure their latest vehicles have the best technology. We've said in the past to date BYD really has not done very much on the autonomous front but now the expectation is there will be around 1 million EVs in China that will have level three capabilities by 2026. And companies like BYD and Li Auto have launched new models with 8-ass software with level three but Beijing has yet to approve the use of level three and higher. An employee from Li Auto said based on my experience more Chinese customers are looking at autonomous driving tech before making their car purchase decisions. Yet another reason why Tesla getting FSD approved in China will be such a big deal.
The CEO of Stellantis Carlos Tavares is now calling all of these tariffs a trap arguing they'll hurt legacy automakers by shielding them from the reality that Chinese rivals make EVs for about a third or less. He said the best way to compete is instead to try to be Chinese ourselves. We know Stellantis recently bought a 21% stake in LEAP Motor to produce some of their technology and Jim Farley recently said we believe many of our competitors will turn to Chinese companies to use their platform globally. Tavares said the tariffs are a major trap for the countries that go on the path because they will not allow Western automakers to avoid restructuring to meet the challenge from lower cost Chinese manufacturers.
Stellantis的首席执行官卡洛斯·塔瓦雷斯现在称这些关税为“陷阱”,他认为这些关税会伤害传统车企,因为它们会让这些车企无法面对中国竞争对手生产电动车成本仅为其三分之一甚至更低的现实。他说,最好的竞争方式是尽力成为“我们自己的中国人”。我们知道,Stellantis最近收购了LEAP Motor 21%的股份,以生产他们的一些技术,Jim Farley最近也表示我们相信很多竞争对手会转向中国公司,使用他们的平台进行全球化生产。塔瓦雷斯说,这些关税对于选择这条道路的国家来说是个大陷阱,因为它们不会让西方汽车制造商避免重组,从而无法应对来自成本更低的中国制造商的挑战。
When you fight against the competition to absorb 30% of cost competitiveness in favor of the Chinese there are social consequences but the governments the governments of Europe don't want to face that reality right now. He said we're not talking about a Darwinian period we are in it. Adding the price battle with Asian rivals would be very tough. What Carlos meant about being Chinese he said it means instead of being purely defensive. Visevi the Chinese offensive we want to be part of the Chinese offensive. I think he's right about the tariff trap though it's just going to kick the can down the road and give these automakers time to drag their feet when it comes to transitioning to fully electric and figuring out how to do so in a cost effective manner.
Reason being it may give these companies a few years but these Chinese are quickly looking to set up local manufacturing across the EU and in Mexico. So there are definitely ways around these tariffs and let's not forget we have all of these CO2 targets around the world that are set to kick in over the next five to 10 years. Ford has just announced a new version of its hands free blue cruise. Based on internal testing blue cruise 1.4 the latest version will stay engaged in hands free mode on average five times longer than the most recent version. They've added enhancements that automatically and smoothly adjust the vehicle speed and curves. There's greater in lane stability unlocked by an all new motion controller which means less ping ponging in the lanes and longer hands free engagement in inclement whether like rain or direct sun.
It'll be available on select 2025 Ford and Lincoln vehicles from the factory and additional vehicles to follow. It'll roll out via a software update to select vehicle lines in the future. Tesla stock closed the day at $254.22 down 1.09 while the Nasdaq was up 0.6%. It was a normal volume day trading about 11 million shares below the average volume the past 30 days. Don't forget to check out ground news linked below grab that 40% off if you want to push back against all of these manipulative algorithms. And remember the next video for me should be Tuesday or Wednesday next week depending on how the travel goes. 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.