Does it bother you that he's spending so much time on Twitter? I think he surrounded himself by brilliant people at Tesla and at SpaceX and his other companies. I think he's our Renaissance man. He is the inventor of our age and he's got an enormous capacity to take on new projects.
I do think Tesla, the most important project and we think it's the most impactful AI project out there, Tesla, the autonomous project. I don't know if you, yeah, many of you probably do have Teslas. Many people in the investment community clearly don't because they don't understand what this last software upgrade did for full self-driving. I think they're almost there. We think that that opportunity, so he's almost there.
We needed him to push and get us there, just like we needed him to push on the EV side and get us there. He's almost there and I do think he has time to devote to Twitter. And I think, you know what, if he's happy, I'm happy. He's excited. He's excited, which is fantastic. Never sleep on a happy and excited entrepreneur. It can unlock new levels of creativity and new energy for more problem solving.
Every time they examine a fatality, why don't they examine all the other fatalities out there on the road? The other ones that kill 45,000 people a year. You only hear about Teslas. It's kind of crazy. But anyway, welcome to Electrified. It's your host, Dylan Loomis. If you'd like to see that full conversation and the rest of the speakers at the Axios Big Deal event that was held yesterday, I'll have this link below.
每次他们调查一起死亡事件时,为什么不调查其他道路上的所有致死事件呢?每年超过45000人死亡的其他事件。你只听到了特斯拉的事情。这有点疯狂。但无论如何,欢迎来到《电动化》。我是主持人迪伦·卢米斯。如果您想看到完整的对话以及昨天举办的Axios Big Deal活动的其他发言者,我将在下面放上链接。
Just be aware what Elon said is true. Kathy is awesome. The interviewer less so. He was just very negative and came off as anti-Tesla and pretty much anti-anything Kathy said. Well, except for the service being down here and there. But okay, fair enough. All right, still a big Tesla believer. Yes, Kia. We are still believers in Tesla. Put that on the record.
A quick update on the Cybertruck rack from yesterday. Simon pointed out this rack was not going to be a product of Tesla's studio for Cybertruck accessories. However, if you watch the video where Ellie talked to Drew and another Tesla employee, here's what was actually said. I'm going to tell you because the audio in the video was very hard to hear. Drew said there will be lots of accessories that will be supplied for the Cybertruck.
Drew then asked another Tesla employee if the rack was going to be from Tesla's Cybertruck Studio accessory team. She said it was a custom design for that event. But then Ellie asked if Tesla would supply it, meaning two customers and not just for that event. The person said she didn't know, but then Drew chimed in and said probably yes, but they don't know for sure. That probably yes was that they'll most likely make that rack for customers the way I understand it. Most importantly though, Drew said generally they are doing a lot of fun accessories for the Cybertruck.
FSD version 11.4.1 is now rolling out to employees and we got the release notes. I'm not going to read them to you, but I'll put them up on the screen. You can pause and read if you'd like. And yes, it looks like this version will now be on the 2023 branch no longer in the past on the 2022 branch. And Dirty Tesla confirmed this as well. Elon does love to hype up these releases. He said this version has major architectural improvements.
This actually much more than a point release should be version 12.0, but that's reserved for when FSD is fully AI from video into control out in case you're wondering about smart and reverse some in Elon said major update coming in a few months on that topic. This article was from last year, but just so you know, Tesla is not the only company that's trying to overcome Phantom breaking. Honda's also being investigated and Nissan was involved in a class-action lawsuit for the same thing.
And numbers are being assigned to Korean reservation holders for the model SNX, and deliveries are set for June. This should serve as a halo effect for this market for the first time, and interest rates have actually been trending down in that region. Speaking of interest rates, it's a theme we all have to keep in the back of our minds for the next year or so. Essentially, S&P Global is reporting that younger buyers' market share is shrinking in the new vehicle market with rising interest rates.
They're seeing a decline in the participation of the lower credit tier in the new car segment. As you can see, the average APR right now is higher than it's been for the last six years dating back to January of 2017. There will come a time in the future when interest rates come down and more of the younger tech forward generation has access to buying a vehicle like a Tesla.
A lot of us know the benefits of Tesla Megapax at their supercharging locations, but then the question becomes, how will Tesla balance giving these two customers and keeping them for themselves? Keep in mind, it's not just Tesla Energy or Tesla's financials that will benefit from scaling more Megapax production, but the Tesla's supercharging economics will benefit as well. Many of us here are expecting Tesla stock to provide for part of our futures. What I can tell you, having managed money professionally and working with thousands of families is this.
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Robinhood is set to launch 24 hour, five days per week, stock trading for select companies. The plan is to allow trading from 8 p.m. Eastern time Sunday to 8 p.m. Eastern time Friday on 43 different securities. Tesla is one of them. Robinhood plans to roll out the feature next week and all customers should have it by June. Obviously though, trading in these hours will have very limited liquidity, so Robinhood will only allow people to place limit orders. I have a lot of thoughts on 24-7 trading, but I'll share those in a different form in the future. For now, don't forget what Robinhood did just two years ago.
I've seen plenty of commotion the last 24 hours about this news, Panasonic delaying mass production of 4680 cells for Tesla. Now people saying the Cybertruck is going to be delayed, so I want to clear up a few things. Currently Panasonic has a Pilot 4680 line that's been up and running for years now supplying test cells to Tesla. They were going to expand those lines and begin commercial production of 4680s for Tesla between April of this year and March of next year, but now that's essentially being pushed back roughly one year, they're now looking to begin operations between April and September 2024. They're reasoning they want to introduce performance improvement measures that will further enhance competitiveness.
I really think this just goes to show that what Tesla is doing is not an easy feat by any stretch. Going back to summer of last year, Panasonic started delivering the first sample 4680 cells to Tesla. And again, mass or commercial production of these cells was supposed to be expanded in Japan basically now and then after that they were going to move production to North America. We later learned Panasonic's North American expansion plans may be different than we thought they talked about investing $4 billion in a factory in Kansas, primarily to supply Tesla, but that they're going to start with 2170 cells.
So just to clarify, it's not this Panasonic factory that's being delayed, it's the actual mass production at the Japan plant as far as I can sell. The new factory in Kansas is expected to be bigger than Gigaine Nevada and they're supposed to begin mass producing these cells for Tesla by 2024. But when it comes to the Cybertruck, Drew on the key one call said as we steadily ramped production ahead of the Cybertruck next year. So real production of the Cybertruck is more in 2024 than later this year.
And yes, I know that Elon said they're hoping for a Cybertruck delivery event, but he said hopefully around the end of quarter three this year. So sometime toward the end of September, hopefully. And then Elon took the time to explain how the ramp for Cybertruck is going to be slow and probably much slower than we're used to. He said this is really a very radical product. It's not made in the way that other cars are made. Point being my expectation for Cybertruck production this year will be in the hundreds and maybe the thousands cumulatively. So does Tesla alone have enough 4680 cells for this? Well, if you go back to December of last year, they were making enough for 1000 cars in one week.
There's plenty of debate on if this number was just from Cato Road or Cato and Austin combined. Personally, I think it's the latter and here's why. This picture on the left is Cato Road. You see the California flag. And this picture on the right, there's people wearing Gigatex's hats, but more importantly in the back you'll see this F-13.
Well, thanks to this video from Joe Tepmire, you can see that F-13 is actually directly in the battery cell production of the Gigatex's layout. Either way, let's assume this number is for both places and that's equal to about 4000 cars per month worth of 4680 cells as of the end of last year.
And here's what Drew just said on the Q1 call. And zooming out for the 4680 team, Q1 was all about cost and quality. We made significant improvements in both areas. And Texas production increased 50% quarter of a quarter, three yields increased 12% and Cato P-grade increased by 20% and three yields improved by 20%.
So Texas 4680 production increased 50% quarter of a quarter and it was the Cato Road P-grade that increased by 20%. So by now, Tesla could very easily be making enough 4680 cells for between 6 and 8000 cars per month.
And yes, some of those will of course go to the base version of the Model Y, but could Tesla switch it up and use some LFP packs instead? I think it's possible. But here's what everybody seems to be forgetting.
当然,其中一些将会用于基础版 Model Y,但特斯拉是否可以改用一些LFP电池组呢?我认为这是可能的。但是这里有一个人们似乎忘记的问题。
It's Panasonic and LG that are expected to make 4680s for Tesla. Summer of last year, LG announced a new production line in South Korea for 4680 cells. This line is expected to have a production capacity of 9 Gw and it's supposed to be 4 Tesla and they said it was going to start production of these 4680 cells in the second half of this year. So basically one month from now.
9 Gw is equivalent to 9 million KW and just for easy math if you assume 90 KW per cyber truck pack, that's enough for 100,000 cyber trucks per year just from this one line from LG. South Korea does have a free trade agreement with the United States.
At the end of the day, Tesla is basically looking at this 4680 supply from LG and Panasonic as insurance policies on their own 4680 production. So even if one of those insurance policies Panasonic is now delayed roughly a year between its own in-house production, the lower initial volume of cyber truck production and LG seemingly still being on track to supply 4680s to Tesla, personally I do not think there will be any problems for cyber truck production because of 4680 supply.
With all of that said though, personally I have my expectations for cyber truck production volumes very low all the way through the first half of next year. I'm just keeping my expectations in check.
Here we have an actual delay with Volvo delaying the EX90 due to more software development and testing needed. Now they're expecting to start production of this SUV EV in the first half of 2024 instead of later this year as originally planned.
Along similar lines, Polestar has lowered its 2023 production guidance and said it'll cut head count 10%, citing delayed production for the Polestar 3 in a challenging environment for the industry. Polestar now expecting to make between 60 and 70,000 cars this year down from 80,000 previously.
Almost like making electric vehicles is a tough endeavor. The Polestar 3 now pushed back to quarter one of next year instead of later this year and they blame it on their parent company Volvo for the same reasons the EX90 was delayed.
If you haven't seen it already, Matt Reisinger did a very cool video on a Tesla solar roof install, a lot of nice insights if you missed it, it'll be linked below.
I found this, ask anything from the Tesla manual using chat GPT, I only played around with it for a few minutes but this will also be below if you want to try it out.
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