Welcome to Electrified, it's your host, D'Alunumis, quick shout out to my newest patron, David S. Thank you for choosing to support the channel. On X, Tasha Kinney from Arc said Tesla has been testing a ride-hail service for around one year. This is a monumental step forward, to which Elon said it's a big deal. On X, Hans Nelson actually gave us a great reminder that we really didn't learn about this at the Wii robot event. Rosalie Nathan's, who works at Tesla, said this four months she shared this video and said, still pinching myself, I got to demo Tesla's ride-hailing platform. Rosalie is currently the senior manager of used cars and online sales. That's a good segue to what Arc just put out about Tesla, they said. During the investor call, management noted some states will require a safety driver until Tesla reaches specific time and mileage thresholds. Given its large fleet, Tesla should be able to meet those thresholds. So I'm wondering if all of the data in the mileage that Tesla is gathering from testing the software of this robotaxi network, if Tesla will be able to present that to the regulators and have it count for something. Arc then continued even if regulators were to delay the removal of those safety drivers, Arc has already laid out the advantages of launching a human driven ride-hail service first.
A week or two ago, we already shared the graph talking about these numbers, but just to reiterate, if Tesla can deliver on that 30-40 cents per mile, those lower price points could unlock around 11 trillion dollars in revenue potential, which is around 80 times larger than the addressable market that Uber and Lyft target today. Again, the current average for ride-hail costs is around $2 per mile. The takeaway is that Tesla isn't just looking to penetrate the Uber and Lyft market, but one that's actually orders of magnitude larger. Mark Andreessen, who has played a critical role in shaping the internet as we know it today and who's also had board seats at companies like Meta, HP, and eBay had some interesting comments on Elon on the Impact Theory podcast.
I'm not doing any of that. We're not doing any of that. Basically, we're going to like staff these companies almost entirely with engineers. I myself, Elon, am an engineer. I am going to understand every aspect of every technical system that we're working on. I am going to be able to be in all the meetings on everything from rocket design to database design at Twitter and everything else. I'm going to only talk to the engineers if I can have it possibly avoided. I'm never going to talk to anybody who's not an engineer. I'm going to talk to the person who's directly relevant to the projects. I'm not going through layers. I'm going all the way down to the company to just talk to the person who's in charge of this thing. Then basically what he does is he goes to each of his companies each week. He identifies whatever is the bottleneck at that company this week, and then he works with the engineers and he fixes it that week.
His companies move so much faster than everybody else's. It's just like, it's like TARDIS and Rabbit. They just move so much faster. They're so much leaner. They don't have all these layers. They don't have all these systems and controls and processes and all this stuff. What they have is many of the best engineers in the world who just absolutely love working with the CEO who understands the substance of what the product is and then is willing to actually work with them hands-on. I mean, I've been at meetings with him at edX where he's in there with 24-year-old engineers and they're just like, they'll just walk through fire for him because he's like their idol and he's able to have a peer conversation with them and he cares about the work that they're doing. If they succeed at it, he is going to love them for it. If they fail at it, he's going to be very disappointed in them. It's just a completely different relationship than the CEO of one of these big tech companies has. It's just completely different. He gets on Zoom and he's on Zoom with the rocket engineers for the Falcon Rocket, the next generation rocket in Texas and it's whatever 12 o'clock midnight there time. It's just him on his iPhone on a Zoom call designing the next rocket.
He's fully conversant in the, completely conversant in that. He and the engineers fix whatever the problem is that week with the rocket and he's like, all right, now we're going to fix the database here at Twitter. And so it's just like Ritz and repeat, Ritz and repeat, Ritz and repeat, do that every single week. Just one more anecdote from somebody that would know, talking about Elon actually working on solving real engineering problems. Yes, Elon's a great leader, delegator, motivator, but he's also still very involved in the engineering at all of his companies.
On X, Tesla posted this infographic saying the estimated life-cycle emissions for autonomy are significantly lower. You can see the robotaxi grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per mile are roughly one fifth, those of the ice fleet. They call out 82% of all miles driven is with two or fewer passengers, hence the design of the cybercab. Tesla doesn't really call this out, but typically the E in CO2E means equivalent, which indicates it's measuring for all greenhouse gases, not just carbon dioxide. Typically other gases like methane or nitrous oxide are converted to their CO2E equivalent based on their global warming potential.
Obviously, we know EVs have no tailpipe emissions, but Tesla is likely considering the life cycle emissions for this metric. That would include things like the electricity generation or the charging, the manufacturing of these vehicles, and then of course battery production as well. I know grams of carbon dioxide equivalent reductions aren't the sexiest topic ever, but people really need to know that this is a leading cause of many health issues. There are many studies on this, but one well-known one over the past decade, it linked ambient particulate matter specifically caused by vehicle exhaust emissions to 361,000 premature deaths worldwide in 2010 and 385,000 in 2015. Plus these emissions go beyond just causing deaths, but they also lead to many health problems as well.
So I know it's really easy to see this basic chart take a quick look and then move on with your life, but when you really consider what it means for our future, it's just a massive deal. Anytime you're in a heated conversation about electric vehicles, you can ask the person if they would like their future generations to breathe cleaner air. If so, they should support electric vehicles. This question gets brought up a lot when we'll Tesla no longer be compared to other car companies. On that point, Sawyer shared some net income numbers on X, then Chris posed the question I just talked about to which Sawyer said when most of the revenue doesn't come from car sales and Elon said yeah. This is a good metric to keep an eye on over time, you just take Tesla's auto revenue divided by total revenue to get the percent.
In quarter three of this year, it came in at 79.5%, which is indeed down from 84% back in quarter three of last year. Of course, we know Tesla's already a lot more than just a car company, but when it comes to valuing the company and the stock and the financials, we still have roughly 80% of Tesla's revenue coming from automotive. But that does include things like FSD, which I think should be more in an AI bucket in and of itself, so I wish Tesla would break out in AI line, but that would just be unnecessary complication. The Tesla China weekly number came in at 10,500, comparing that to the same weekend quarter three, that number was 13,500. Thus quarter over quarter, Tesla China is now down 18.85%, and comparing this week to the same weekend quarter four last year, that number was 10,800. And now year over year, Tesla China is up 24.09%.
For Tesla to set a new record quarter, they would need over 16,389 units over the remaining nine weeks. The model breakdown was 800 Model 3s and 9,700 Model Ys. There's likely some export things at play here. We have the tariffs in Europe that may be changing things a bit as Model 3 sales did dip down to 800 in week three of quarter three. However, this entire quarter to start quarter four has seen lower Model 3 sales. Certainly something to keep an eye on in the weeks ahead, and this chart from Roland shows us that the Xiaomi SU 7 and X-Pangs mode at MO 3 have also been selling well over the past few weeks that are Model 3 competitors.
Speaking of Xiaomi's relatively new SU 7, a prototype just did a 6-minute 46-second lap at the Nurburgring, setting the new four-door record. What's crazy is this time is about 20 seconds faster than the record that the Porsche Taycon held previously. Separately, Xiaomi is hosting an event, and that's where they plan to reveal more about the SU 7 Ultra's production version, which will be different than this prototype that set the record. Their CEO said the production model will retain the prototype's core structure, triple motor setup, and battery configuration. To give this record some more context, Tesla's record with the Model S plaid and the track package was 7 minutes in 25 seconds, which means the Xiaomi SU 7 time is almost 40 seconds faster. Now again, yes, the SU 7 was a stripped down prototype, but very impressive nonetheless.
小米最新的SU 7跑车在纽博格林赛道上完成了一圈,用时6分46秒,创造了新的四门车记录。令人惊讶的是,这个时间比保时捷Taycan之前的记录快了大约20秒。此外,小米正准备举办一场活动,届时他们会介绍更多关于SU 7 Ultra量产版的信息,该版本会与创纪录的原型车有所不同。小米的CEO表示,量产车型将保留原型车的核心结构、三电机配置和电池设计。为了更好地理解这一记录,特斯拉Model S Plaid加上赛道套件的记录是7分25秒,这意味着小米SU 7的时间快了几乎40秒。尽管SU 7只是一个经过简化的原型车,但这仍然十分令人印象深刻。
Niohin, one of the world's biggest renewable energy players, has taken less than 18 months to build and start operating its 877 megawatt hour Cauli Battery Stage 1. And yes, this project is in collaboration with Tesla using Tesla megapacks. This project is Niohin's first major project in Western Australia and its first four-hour long duration battery around the world. As was implied, there will be a Stage 2 for this project that will be 1363 megawatt hours. Stage 2 is currently under construction. Altogether, this Cauli project will be over 2.2 gigawatt hours. That article did not specify, but if you do a little digging on the Niohin website, you'll find that yes, indeed, Stage 2 will be using 348 Tesla megapack 2XLs. Further projects we've already talked about, like the Victorian Big Battery and the Hornsdale Power Reserve, have also used Tesla batteries, whether it's megapack or power pack back in the day. I think Niohin going back to the Tesla well for a majority of its projects is a very encouraging sign.
Volvo put out a press release today saying that its electric vehicle owners will finally have access to the Supercharger network. Their customers get access in the US and Canada and this will be enabled by an adapter included with a purchase of a new Volvo EX90, EX40 or EC40, starting with Model Year 2025. Current Volvo owners will be forced to pay $230 for this adapter. Adaptors will begin shipping to retailers on November 18th this year, but availability of adapters for the EX30 will be announced later, along with that Pulstar vehicles also now have access to the Supercharger network. Future Pulstar vehicles will have the Nax as standard, but current owners can buy an adapter beginning today. It sounds like the adapter will cost the same as Volvo, but deliveries the timeline is mid-November. Pulstar did say its in-car Google Maps will be updated to show all available Nax stations. About two months ago, Pulstar did begin producing the Pulstar 3 in South Carolina.
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And according to some polling, consumers said lower interest rates were the number one incentive they'd like to see. And that incentive was nearly twice as popular among shoppers as an incentive offering cashback or a rebate. T. Woodsy on X was understandably complaining about the FSD degraded chime for poor weather conditions. Responding to that, a shock said it will be fixed in the upcoming release next week, version 12.5.6.2. I'm definitely not taking a shock's comment to mean that they've totally solved for inclement weather. I'm pretty sure he just means that the excessive chime in dinging for poor weather will be fewer in frequency.
Some of you awaiting delivery of a Model Y may have to wait a little bit longer as Tesla has temporarily paused deliveries of the 2025 Model Y. This is just in the US as the EPA has to re-certify Tesla's figures. One delivery advisor says the hold is on all Model Y long range rear wheel drives built after October 1st. A similar thing did happen with the Model S and the Model Y earlier this year, so I don't think this one should take too long.
This is another one I think you can easily gloss over, but all of these Stellantis executives jumping ship and going to BYD should tell us a little something. BYD just hired the former UK chief of Stellantis, Maria Divino. This as BYD is building a team of European execs to lead its expansion in the region. This marks the third high-profile Stellantis exec who has jumped over to BYD in recent weeks. In response, Stellantis said it does not comment on the personal choices of its employees and has a deep pool of automotive talent worldwide.
As we've talked about in the past, Stellantis has been looking to cut costs anywhere it can thanks to market share declines in key European regions like France and Italy. As we know with Tesla, sometimes talent leaving a company is just that and nothing more. Other times though, there really is more to the story and this feels like one of those. XAI is in new talks about a potential funding round that could value the company around $40 billion. XAI hopes to raise several billion dollars in the new round. The cash raised would be added to the $40 billion valuation so that valuation is pre-money. But the funding discussions are in the early stages meaning the terms could change. Or the talks could fall apart altogether.
Earlier this month, OpenAI raised $6.6 billion and is valued around $157 billion. Here's the timeline. July 2023, XAI is officially launched. March of this year, an SEC filing shows XAI raising $134 million but Elon said that wasn't true. May of this year, XAI secured $6 billion in funding which put them at a post-money valuation of $24 billion. So if this funding round goes through, that's roughly a $20 billion increase in XAI's valuation in about 5 months. Remember, this post-money valuation could be over $45 billion. But the reason I'm spending a little bit of time on this is because the question remains, will Tesla be involved in this funding round at all? Now yes, I'm fairly confident Tesla would need to have a shareholder vote before actually doing something like this. But you'll remember Alexandra, Tesla Boomer Mama organized a letter sending campaign to Tesla encouraging Tesla to actually invest in XAI, showing support from many shareholders. And obviously as a Tesla shareholder, the sooner something like that would happen, the better.
The Powerwall 3 expansion unit saying they're now available in the US. You can add up to three expansion units on a single Powerwall to increase your capacity. These expansion units do not have an integrated inverter, making them a bit cheaper. At least for now, if you pull up the spec sheet, you'll see compatibility with other systems only compatible with Powerwall 3. I was able to find this order form on Reddit, you can see one Powerwall 3 expansion was listed for $5,900. And given that they don't have an inverter, they are of course a bit slimmer as well.
We don't have any specs yet, but Cadillac is touting a new performance version of the lyric for 2026 calling it the lyric V. They plan to bring it to North America, Australia and New Zealand to start. They'll share more information early next year. Electric put out an article saying Tesla is doubling the size of Gigatexis from those filings we talked about yesterday from Sawyer, but this is totally false and a misunderstanding of those filings. If you don't want to take my word for it, Joe Tett-Mayer put together a detailed 7 minute video on the topic I'll have it linked below. Lucid announced pricing for its upcoming Gravity SUV that starts production later this year.
The first version will be a higher priced model, starting at $96,400 for the Gravity Grand Touring. It should have 800 horsepower and a claimed range of 440 miles. Then just the Touring model which will arrive later is estimated to start around $81,400. They have not given a range figure and that one won't enter production until late 2025. Orders for both vehicles however will open on November 7th. And current air customers will get priority delivery. Rawlinson said the Gravity will ramp gradually through 2025.
第一款车型将是价格较高的豪华版,起售价为96,400美元,是Gravity Grand Touring。预计该车型将具备800马力,并声称续航里程可达440英里。稍后推出的Touring版起售价估计在81,400美元左右。目前尚未提供续航里程数据,这款车型预计在2025年年底前投入生产。然而,两款车的预订都将从11月7日开始。现有的Air客户将享有优先交付权。Rawlinson表示,Gravity车型的生产将逐步增加,直到2025年。
We have to get the quality right and really it's going to run into 2026 before we start really getting to high volume. He said I would think there's a huge potential market. We think the total addressable market for Gravity is about 6 times that of Lucid Air. LG Energy just said they reached an agreement with Ford to move production of the Mach-E's battery from Poland to Michigan starting next year. Which means the Mach-E may be able to re-qualify for the tax credit that it lost last year. Ford also announced a new software update for the F-150 Lightning and the Mach-E that enables EV routing for Google Maps through Android Auto. It will display Tesla's Supercharger locations and it will be able to precondition the battery for fast charging which previously was only available directly through Ford's navigation. Some Canadians are getting their delivery date for the Cybertruck the earliest one I've seen is November 5th.
Tesla stock closed the day at $259.52 down 1.14% while the Nasdaq was up 0.78%. It was an average volume day trading about 2 million shares below the average volume the past 30 days. I'll send you guys off with a video that Tesla just posted of the CyberCab in case you missed it. Don't forget check out AG1 links below if you want to grab those freebies. Hope you guys have a wonderful day. 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.