Here we have an awesome video from Kais EV on Wamelverse Tesla. The Wamel has an expanded area in Arizona now, but freeways are still not available. This trip goes from the Phoenix Art Museum to the Chandler Museum, which is a 21.2 mile trip. Tesla takes highways one available, and Wamel still doesn't do highways. SSD of course does not have any boundaries, so it can go outside of the pre-fenced or mapped area where Wamel can only operate. And for Tesla, it was on FSD version 11.3.6.
The Tesla did actually go 55 miles an hour for a big stretch on the highway, 55 was the posted limit, and it was consistently being passed, so the Tesla time could have been even better. And yes, there were zero interventions for Tesla in this trip. Wamel did also go through a parking lot at one point, Wamel was halfway done with the trip when the Tesla actually arrived.
The total trip took Tesla 26 minutes and 27 seconds, and it took Wamel 54 minutes and 42 seconds. The Wamel ride cost $43.45. So if Tesla were to do this 50-50 split, that Elon just mentioned when it comes to autonomous revenue, let's do some math. Tesla's SSD has driven over 200 million miles since inception. That works out to about 9.4 million of this trip we're watching now. By that, by the $43.50 for each trip, that would be $410.3 million in revenue. Then if Tesla gets half, that would be about $205 million.
And yes, this extrapolation falls apart considering things like Tesla rides being much cheaper without things like LiDAR, HD maps that need constant updates, the radars, etc. that Wamel still uses. And I believe Wamel also uses remote operators to correct routes when needed. But still, a great overall video from KayaCV, and a cool comparison that in my opinion definitely highlights the many advantages Tesla has right now.
Troy is doing an interesting poll and so far it has over 11,000 votes, and keep in mind many of these will be Tesla fans to some degree. But 43% of those respondents are saying they expect Tesla to have driverless SSD meaning robotaxies no driver in 1-2 years. But overall we have almost 75% of respondents saying they expect this to happen in the next 1-4 years. So where would you fall on this poll?
On Twitter, Elon said, Cybertruck option packages and third party add-ons will be fire, which yes is exciting. But I think more importantly, the Cybertruck option packages that are coming from Tesla in-house, their design studio for Cybertruck accessories. This could help them boost the margins on Cybertruck, or narrowly that's where a lot of pick-up companies and other auto companies have actually made more margin. It's actually on the accessories, not the vehicle itself. Almost like traditional dealers making money on service, not the actual sale of the car. So in a scenario where it sounds like Tesla is struggling a bit to drive down the cost of the Cybertruck, this is definitely not something that should go overlooked.
We already talked about the Model 3 long range rear wheel drive showing up in inventory in some European countries. Just wanted to pass along that now Germany is now officially on that list if you're looking.
Here we get some official data from the ACEA and Tesla is now seemingly reporting to this agency. So if you look at these columns over here, this is year-to-date data for January through April. For the entire European Union. Growing down, finding Tesla we can see Tesla is up 112% for that time period January through April in 2023 compared to 2022. Taking its market share during that time last year, which was 1.3 up to 2.3%. The only other company on this entire list that grew at a higher percentage rate during January to April was Alfa Romeo and they of course were coming from a much lower base.
The biggest loser in the EU so far this year is Honda down 39.5% and then the second biggest loser is Jaguar down 22.6%. But zooming out to look at overall market share by manufacturer so far this year, VW up at 26% still antists at 19.2% and Renault in third at 10.9%. And again, Tesla is still down at only 2.3% of the overall auto market in the EU so far for January to April this year.
So yeah, things are going very well. The growth rate is right where you'd want it to be but we're still in the very early innings. For the month of April, full BEVs made up 11.8% of the overall market.
Most of you guys know me as the Tesla or Electrified Guy. It's that way to some degree with family and friends but with them, I'm even more so the fitness and performance guy. You may not be able to tell as I've been pushed off track as of late but I'm hoping to be parasite free by this summer and then I should be feeling like my normal self.
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We have Tesla Taiwan rubbing it in that they now get the quick silver model Y. And as Troy highlighted, the first two months of Model Y sales in Taiwan were both higher than any previous month of Model 3 sales. The Model 3's best month was 2.4000 and you can see the Model Y has bested that in the first two months. Of course you're going to have some pent up demand but it looks like some of that will be cannibalizing the Model 3 sales which makes sense. As Troy highlighted, Taiwan and Israel are Gigabre Lins 2 main export destinations.
There's some chatter out there about this whole Epstein Elon Musk situation. We just have the US Virgin Islands now serving a Sapena, 2 Elon, essentially asking for documents anything related to Epstein and JP Morgan as the island is suing JP Morgan. This alleged involvement is that there's some suspicion that Epstein may have referred or tried to refer Elon to become a client of JP Morgan. Ultimately though, I think this will be a nothing burger.
I'm not going to read you these bullet points that Elon tweeted about a few days ago but go ahead and pause and read them if you missed the tweet. Actually, this one's making me chuckle from Elon. The notion that I would need or listen to financial advice from a dumb crook is absurd. If anybody thought the Optimus videos were CGI, Elon said all real and hot off the presses, test the Optimus team cranked super hard through the weekend to get it done. They are awesome. And added Optimus team is making excellent progress.
You may have seen that the $2 million plus Remac Nivira broke over 20 different acceleration in breaking records. One was a 0 to 60 time of 1.74 seconds. If you're not familiar, yes this is an electric vehicle. But what I wanted to highlight here is what Elon said about it. Tesla economics asked, will the Tesla Roadster be able to beat this new record? Elon just said LOL. It sounds like the upcoming Roadster, potentially with that SpaceX package, should be able to get under 1.74 seconds 0 to 60, which is just absurd. Keep in mind, you can buy about 20 Model S plaid vehicles for the price of 1 Remac Nivira and it does 1.990 to 60, which is not bad.
你可能看到过价值200多万美元的Remac Nivira在加速和刹车方面打破了20个不同的纪录,其中之一是0到60的时间仅为1.74秒。如果你不熟悉,那么这是一辆电动汽车。但我想在这里强调的是埃隆说的话。特斯拉经济学问道:特斯拉Roadster能否打破这一新纪录?埃隆只是说了声LOL(大笑)。这表明即将推出的Roadster,有可能搭载SpaceX套件,可以做到0到60在1.74秒以下,这太荒谬了。请记住,你可以用1辆Remac Nivira的价钱购买约20辆Model S plaid,后者可在1.990秒内完成0到60加速,这也不错。
We get another update on Tesla in India. There are discussions with officials about incentives being offered in India for a car and battery manufacturing for Tesla. Tesla is still testing the waters and trying to understand the local policies. Recent talks have touched on India's taxes on imported cars but have mainly centered on how Tesla could make use of a government scheme. The scheme would include certain cashback incentives for selling and exporting locally made vehicles and parts. And again, they're also talking about battery production as well. In official said, it appears Tesla has come with a different heart and head this time and that Tesla can negotiate on things like taxes better if it first sets up a plant. As we know, there's been back and forth between Tesla and India for years. For a time, Tesla seemed to walk away from the table but it sounds like they're back so we'll see.
You guys know I think these brand watch and shopping consideration reports are kind of silly but I'll pass along the data anyway. In the first quarter of this year, about 75% of luxury vehicle shoppers were considering an SUV. This was a new record high. In the first quarter with 73% of luxury shoppers considering an SUV, that's up from 68% last year and you can see the same thing happening but to the downside for luxury cars, actually down 5 or 6% from last year. If you don't have any context, usually these can move 1, 2, maybe 3% but 5 to 6 in a quarter is definitely a significant move.
Only two models in the top 10 luxury models considered were actual cars. We have the BMW X5 and then the 5 series. The Model Y of course an SUV came in the 10th spot so this is a pretty good argument for people that are trying to say Tesla should advertise. Then yeah, plenty of families just need more size than a Model Y can offer but I think part of the reason the Model Y is still down at number 10 is just a lack of awareness of the benefits of Tesla and that vehicle. And these results are still kind of confounding because we know that Tesla was the best selling luxury brand in quarter 1 in the US and they only had about 9% of the quarterly brand consideration. When it comes to safety, the second most important factor for these luxury shoppers, Tesla is not even in the top 3. And yes, these brand watch reports are consumer perception surveys. So again for the advertising camp, hopefully it will fix the consumer perception and bring it more in line with reality, especially for Tesla safety.
Glee has just announced that it increased its holding in Aston Martin essentially doubling its investment position up to 17%. Glee now the third largest shareholder in Aston Martin. Definitely something to watch because Glee has done really well as the parent company of Volvo, Polestar, now Zika and they're making big waves in the EV space. And we've already heard that Aston Martin plans to build two upcoming EVs in the UK by 2025, a sports car and an SUV.
Shout out to EV Knowledge on Twitter, we now have the first United States Canada electric vehicle corridor. This roadway will stretch from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Quebec City, Quebec and it'll have DC fast chargers every 50 miles. Also, Canada and the United States have built the world's largest market-based energy trading relationship. So relations between the United States and Canada, specifically for the supply chain and raw materials for the EV sector, not trivial. This corridor will carry the flow of EV traffic, trade and manufacturing between the US and Canada.
So add this to the list of things you love to see. I'll be very curious to see if Ford stands its ground on this one, but they just had a price hike for the Blue Cruise System for Machee owners. Now customers buying a new Machee will have the option to include Blue Cruise at the time of purchase for $2,100, that's for a 3 year subscription period. Previously, owners were paying about $200 per year, now it works out to about $700 per year. And a slightly different rate for existing Machee owners, the renewal cost for Blue Cruise will be $75 per month, or they can pay $800 per year at the time of renewal. Blue Cruise is of course still very limited on where you can actually use this feature and in a Ford form, apparently plenty of people were very upset with 30 pages of responses and many people expecting to take great to drop to zero. Now of course you're going to have a knee jerk reaction from customers being upset and using some hyperbole, but at the end of the day if the take rates really do start to drop significantly, I won't be surprised if Ford again cuts the price.
So I'm not someone who has become obsessed with AI, I definitely play around and I'm watching and experimenting a little bit here and there, but as far as looking for companies to invest in, personally I feel like Tesla is one of those companies where I already have some AI exposure. So far it seems like the market doesn't really agree with me, but honestly that's the way I like it and I would just say well let's talk again in another 5 or so years and see what's what.
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