Hey everybody Rob now we're here welcome back to Tesla Daily today we are going to be talking about the result of the vote from Tesla shareholder meeting We also have a very interesting Harris poll relating to Elon Musk a number of updates from Ford from their capital markets day and a few other items as well
All right looking at the stock another really nice day for Tesla today up about 4.9% to close it $188.87 Then as deck up just half a percent on the day so nice out performance for Tesla on the day And we are now up about 14% sense Tesla shareholder meeting So the nice run for Tesla continues and hopefully that'll carry through the rest of this week
All right getting into the updates from the shareholder meeting Tesla today filed an 8k to disclose the results of the votes on the proposals from the shareholder meeting We can see here those results a little bit difficult to understand those in this format though So I have gone ahead and put those in percentage formats as we can see here
So obviously of most consequence would be the vote on board members and we can see the results here We already knew JB was elected to the board But Robin has been reelected as the chairman chairperson of the board Elon Musk also reelected the board
So I have two breakdowns of the votes here You can see that for many of these there are a number of non votes about 22% So on the left we have those included in the percentages on the right those are excluded from each of these percentages So for Elon Musk for those that did vote he received a 95% 4 vote in terms of being reelected to the board versus just 5% against so a lot of confidence there shown in Elon despite tumultuous and volatile period of time here since the last shareholder meeting But I think good to see that support from shareholders of Elon obviously he received a pretty warm welcome at the shareholder meeting So not terribly surprising, but I think if people had to guess what this percent would be they probably would have guessed a little bit more for the against vote just because of you know the the stock price performance over the last 12 or 18 months and Again some of the volatility that there's been a relating to Elon Musk
So I think impressive to see that for Elon for Robin 74% of votes in favor for those that did vote and then for JB 86% in favor So good to see that strong support of JB as well for the rest of these proposals We don't need spend too much time on them proposal to that just had to do with executive compensation and it was a Changing that to a non-binding advisory vote basis, which also relates to proposal three here Which is a little bit different in structures so you can see that broken out down here, but the Recommendation from shareholders was for that to be reviewed on an annual basis That's where we're seeing from that vote proposal four. That was just the auditor So nothing crazy there automatically gets counted for for the auditor as you can see by the 0% non votes And then proposals five and six proposal five was a shareholder proposal that was brought before the meeting proposal six and that was for key person Risk disclosure basically wanting to sell to lay out their Succession planning in a public way and then proposal six That was the one that was brought on the floor and Elon did respond to that saying that they will have a third party audits of Some of their mining activities for cobalt so although there were no votes for it because it was brought on the floor and just nobody voted for it There's automatically counted against that will also have an impact obviously from Elon's feedback
So those are the results of the shareholder meeting votes nothing too surprising there, but again, I think just positive to see the You know strong support there for Elon despite some of the tumultuous times here Now the other interesting results of a vote that we have is from Harris poll So you can see this was done or this was published over the weekend. I think a couple thousand voters in this poll and Elon has been rated as among their poll polling options as the most favorable political figure
So he got a 47% favorable rating you can see the neutral gap there and then about 33% Unfavorable so about a 14% spread between unfavorable and favorable Which is really positive? Obviously you can see how that ranks among some other people here on this on this list
So at first blush it seems like a good result right? Elon topping the chart there, but sort of on second thought it's like well Is it really a good thing that Elon has even been included on this in the first place? Perhaps not and I think the more bowed comparison versus a bunch of political figures would be at least for our You know discussions as it relates to Tesla and potentially for the stock would be how Elon would rank against other You know CEOs Jeff Bezos um well not anymore, but Bezos Zuckerberg Tim Cook things like that I think would be more telling because what this shows you is that you know 33% don't view Elon as as favorable And that could impact potentially their purchasing decisions whereas you know Perhaps a CEO that is less in the limelight might have a lower favorability rating But also potentially a lower unfavorable rating more more people probably falling in that neutral bucket
So interesting results. I don't know how meaningful that is But wanted to kind of share some thoughts on that because I think there's a couple of different ways that that can be interpreted.
非常有趣的结果。虽然我不知道这是否有意义,但我想分享一些想法,因为我认为有几种不同的解释方式。
All right moving on from that we do have an update here from teslamag.de on some news out of Germany. It looks like Tesla is changing their compensation structure a little bit. I think they have done this in some markets in the past. It's been a little bit back and forth. I think in the US Historically, but they are now adding a commission or I guess rather a sales quota.
To meet a part of the compensation total to part to meet part of the total compensation plan. For employees that are directly involved in sales. So this is not every employee. But it looks like according to teslamag.de's report here that up to 10% of total commission for these sales based employees Would be based on meeting those sales quotas. So it looks like Tesla again.
We've seen them doing a little bit more promotional stuff. We've seen them bring back their referral program In different ways and trying some things there Elon's talked about being open to advertising now We see a little bit of different structure with the commission base or quota-based Compensation here. I think they're doing a little bit more to try to incentivize selling Then what they've done in the past as obviously production skills up Perhaps a little bit more quickly than demand naturally has been in this type of market that we're currently in.
The next update we have is from drive Tesla Canada. They have posted some Testing results from I believe the TFF forum, which is a popular Tesla forum I believe in over in Germany. Looking at the results of charging for the new byd battery packs that we've talked about Tesla starting to integrate Versus the catl packs that are used in the standard range vehicles out of Shanghai.
For them out of why so here you can see that charging curve Obviously, I have not had a chance to verify this. So you know, this is just One one test result, but it looked like the byd battery pack performed more favorably in terms of those charging rates You can see kind of hitting peak capacity around close to 175 kilowatts there All the way up to about looks like 50% state of charge versus the catl pack at that point would be more down around 110-ish In terms of the kilowatt rate at that point.
So looks like overall should be able to charge more quickly on this pack even though it is a little bit smaller So a nice bonus there for that new pack from Byd again, not verified yet So hopefully we get some more test results that can show similar performance.
Right in the next up today kind of a big item for the day forward held their capital markets day. So they walked through a lot of their plans for their new business segments as we've talked about a number of times. They've broken those out into three distinct segments the Ford blue which is really their legacy ice business model E Which is their you know sort of startup EV business and then Ford Pro which is more of their Enterprise business.
And and a little bit of their services. So Talking about Ford Blue who were sort of their legacy ice business. They wanted to reiterate today strongly that Ford Blue is a growth business. This is how they're viewing it They said that they plan to add a 160,000 Vehicle capacity in terms of production capacity over the next 10 months and They view this as being a business that is going to increase in profitable profitability over the next three years.
So in 2022 Ford Blue had a an EBIT margin of 7.2 percent They expect that to grow up to 10% in 2026 and you can see some of the results there Volume and mix responsible for a 1% increase in EBIT margin. So again growing volume in this business Uh net pricing coming down but being offset by some things in terms of the contributed cost for each vehicle the structural cost for the business Services and then some other you know exchange headwinds bringing that back down.
So that's kind of the waterfall chart of how they get there. Uh for that ice business margin They also talked about one of the things driving this would be their focus on product derivatives. So they talked about how they want to bring sort of optionality down in general simplify production processes but as sort of a separate tangent to that While those simple while those some trims will be simplified They do expect to offer derivatives that we've seen them kind of go down this path where they can offer a very similar vehicle, but it's a different trim and they can Earn a much stronger margin on those trim.
So they say it's low investment high margins. They're they pointed out for example the bronco raptor They're able to earn two to three times the EBIT on each vehicle of this derivative. So It's kind of interesting. I don't know how sustainable a strategy like that is in the long term um You know, it's it's tough to say how much of that is just capitalizing on some of this perhaps initial demand for some of these different types of trims Uh, whereas over time can they really support a vehicle that really isn't that different but is earning that high You know that much more in earnings. I'm not quite sure but it's interesting to see that that is you know a big part of their plan for profitability and uh the ice business
They also said that they expect their post warranty services to go from 25% to 40% over the next three years and I'm not 100% clear on what exactly They're referring to in terms of those percentages So I do want to go back and take a listen to what they discussed during this part of the presentation Haven't had a chance to do that yet. So I don't want to make two significant comments on this But it did raise kind of a red flag for me when reviewing this uh that they do expect some significant Seems like additional contribution from post-orantee service which again, I'm not necessarily sure that's you know the best way It's uh to plan for profitability in the business relying on that post-orantee service which obviously that Creates a little bit of a burden on on the customer to be able to Uh afford that service. So interesting.
Uh, I'm not exactly sure again that I'm understanding that correctly And I want to go back and listen to it but uh sort of an item of note as I was reviewing that Now looking at their uh sort of model e-business or e-business one thing that they highlighted that I thought was kind of a little bit humorous Was that the customer experience is a lot more favorable when they have to interact with dealers less So they talked about how they have a plus 57 points uh NPS from that promoter score if negotiations with the dealer less than 30 minutes And they also talked about how loyalty increases by 40% when the transaction is mostly digital So as much as they can get the dealers out of the way it represents a much much stronger customer experience Which I think we can think of uh an automaker that has gone all the way down that path and eliminated these things from from the process So kind of interesting to see them highlight that uh in the presentation
The rest on on Ford Model U was stuff that we've pretty much already talked about But there were a couple of new details here Uh, they disclosed the take rate on I believe blue crews here. They say 20% take rate in pilot on model my um 2023 model year Mustang Mach E so I think that's on blue crews which they obviously just changed the pricing of this pretty significantly Going from $600 for three years now to $800 per year So I would imagine that that take rate is going to shrink pretty significantly If I am understanding that uh this graphic correctly from them
And then one other disclosure that they made that I thought was interesting was their capital allocation plans for basically the next three years Uh, they expect to basically invest 60% of their capital into product battery joint ventures raw materials and 43% of that specifically to go to A Ford Model E or the EV business which is more than Ford blue more than Ford bro But of their total capital allocation. It's only about 25% of their you know capital expenditure plans so Obviously some of this is going to things like shareholders and um just probably fixed cost as well But kind of interesting to see Somewhat small sliver of their capital specifically dedicated for the EV business
Now they did talk a little bit about their next generation uh products coming Uh one of which would be sort of a Ford expedition like vehicle So it would be a three row family SUV With a 350 mile range that they expect to be released in 2025 So just a couple of teasers on that uh and then this is separate from Ford But GM also announcing today that they are going to be making the Escalade in an electric version as well So they'll call that the escalate IQ to match up with the lyric the Celeste IQ Uh and it looks like that'll be i think they said coming in They may not have actually given a date I might be getting the dates mixed up there with with Ford But uh some to keep an eye out for from Cadillac as well
I think there's this is an interesting space because it doesn't seem like Tesla has Too much of a desire to really compete and sort of that traditional three row SUV segment Obviously, they've got the Model X but uh that's a little bit more of a you know Not necessarily that traditional with you know sort of the size and the shape of of the vehicle Versus something like you know an escalator an expedition or explorer something in that category Which would probably be more comparable to like the Rivian R1s So I think automakers are seeing that as a potential opportunity to have a little bit more free space from Tesla And probably pretty wise to pursue that space
All right last few things here we got an update from crews that they have now surpassed two million driverless miles. So we just talked about some of their safety statistics on their first one million miles. That was achieved just three months ago. They're now up to two million. So Obviously, it's a pretty low base, but accelerating pretty quickly in terms of what they're achieving there for driverless kind of similar to what we had just talked about with Waymo as well.
And then we've got a couple updates on other companies today. So first space X They had a successful launch another crewed mission taking four astronauts up to the international space station. And for the first time successfully landed a Falcon 9 booster back on earth for a crewed mission. So pretty cool to see that and another milestone for space X and obviously I was exciting to see successful crewed launches as well.
And then we've got an update from the boring company that the burnt hair cologne or perfume is now Finally about a ship. They say this is gonna be shipping in June. After a number of delays. So I know probably a lot of people here have orders for that wanted to pass along that update.
The boring company also updated their website today saying that once their new expansion plans are complete for Vegas Which we've already talked about. They'll be capable of transporting more than 90,000 passengers per hour. So cool to see the progress there in Vegas. And then to wrap up just a quick look at the calendar We talked about this on Friday, but a couple things this week FOMC meeting minutes on Wednesday PCE on Friday.
I will probably be off on Fridays traveling for one more real day weekend. So hopefully nothing too crazy. You'll be happening on that day. And then of course the market's being closed on Monday. All right, that'll wrap it up for today. So as always. Thank you for listening Make sure you subscribe and sign up for notifications. You can also find me on Twitter at Tesla podcast and we'll see you tomorrow for the Tuesday May 23rd episode of Tesla Daily. Thank you.