Hey everybody Rob Mayward here and today we've got some new shots of the Cybertruck doing some testing near Fremont. We've also got some small tweaks to Tesla pricing, some news on France and Tesla, those conversations seem to continue and a few other items as well.
Alright, starting off with the stock, end of an era, today Tesla finishing down 3.0% closing at $256.79, the Nasdaq today up for 10% so the 13th streak, 13th day historic streak for Tesla, sadly comes to an end even though the Nasdaq did finish today in the positive. We could not survive the FOMC meeting and J-POW press conference.
So you can see Tesla floating with the green throughout most of the day right around the time of the Fed statement release. Unfortunately, saw a big drop in the market, Tesla participating in that as well and just couldn't quite recover throughout the rest of the day. But we'll talk about that FOMC meeting in a second, we do have quite a bit of macro news stuff today or macro news today.
First, the PPI or producer price index following the CPI yesterday, so the headline number year over year, only up 1.1% looks like expectations somewhere around 1.5%, so coming in below expectations, which is nice to see and you can see how that's trended for the last few months, continuing to fall significantly.
And then on a month over month basis, only up 2.0% which is right around in the range that you wanted to be, and sorry that was for core headline first, core here for the month over month. So again, right in the range you want to see and has been pretty consistently sort of around that level over the last four to five months. So pretty good report, I would say for the CPI and that led into the FOMC meeting.
Let me one second here, looking a little bright on this camera. Okay, so going into the FOMC meeting, as we can see the statement here, the Fed did pause interest rates for the first time since March 2022. So about 15 months or so, since we had a meeting where there was not an interest rate increase, the FOMC statement not filled with a lot of changes, really just changing the language about holding the rate, but continuing to assess things as things develop, whether or not interest rates will need to be further increased from here.
So again, not too much there in the statement, though they did publish an updated summary of economic projections. We're looking at March here. So you can see that for 2023, median interest rate expectations were somewhere around, you know, five and a half, five and a quarter percent there. Now you can see that those have increased.
So the scale bumping up to 7% here, and this may be increasing up to about a 5.6% median. So a slight increase in where the Fed views interest rates going, which I think was the primary driver of the stock, you know, stock market declines shortly after this release, despite the pause, which as we've talked about was widely expected. So, you know, we've talked a lot about this. These summaries of economic projections have not proven to be the best forecasters of where interest rates ultimately end up going.
Certainly, if you look back at these over the last, you know, year or so, not going to be a great guide. So I think the market may be just taking advantage of some of the volatility that this presents, but I don't know that it's putting a lot of weight necessarily into these sort of median projections. So we'll see, as part of the conference, let's just pull up a couple of comments here. Powell did say that they didn't make any decisions regarding future meetings, no discussion about alternating meetings.
So pause now and then an increase next time. But obviously we can see from the summary of economic projections, that's kind of their expectation. He did kind of slip up at one point and said, I think the skip makes sense. So implying that, you know, skip and then maybe increase next time. But he said, then he corrected himself, said he shouldn't say skip. So kind of interesting to see that. And then he said there's really only the earliest signs of disinflation in non housing services, an area of inflation that he's been talking about for a while. So starting to see a little bit of that, but again, continue to reiterate that the process is going to take time. So it was kind of the summaries, the summary of the FOMC comments today.
But we're through it now, kind of a crazy week from a macroeconomic perspective, but hopefully a little bit more, you know, at least a little bit less news for the rest of the week. Alright, getting into Tesla news, we'll start off with a price tweak on the Model Y.
但是现在我们已经度过了这个阶段,从宏观经济的角度来看,这是一个有些疯狂的一周,但希望本周剩下的时间至少能够有点少一点的新闻噪音。好,我们来谈谈特斯拉的消息吧,我们首先要谈到的就是 Model Y 的价格微调。
So the sort of standard range or all-wheel drive version, you know, Tesla's got stopped calling them that, but the lowest range Model Y, which is the 4680 version out of Texas, prices been increased by $250. So if we look at our price tracking table, you can see that here. It's the only price change this time around. So obviously a pretty small tweak, but it does ever so slightly push things a little bit more mixed wise, probably up to these other vehicles, long range and performance.
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So the sort of standard range or all-wheel drive version, you know, Tesla's got stopped calling them that, but the lowest range Model Y, which is the 4680 version out of Texas, prices been increased by $250. So if we look at our price tracking table, you can see that here. It's the only price change this time around. So obviously a pretty small tweak, but it does ever so slightly push things a little bit more mixed wise, probably up to these other vehicles, long range and performance.
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以上内容的意思是:特斯拉的标准和四轮驱动版本已经被停用,现在最低续航版Model Y(来自德克萨斯州的4680版本)的价格已经上涨了250美元。如果我们查看价格跟踪表,就可以看到这一点了。这次唯一的价格变化就是这个。显然,这是一个非常小的调整,但它稍微有点抬高了长续航和高性能车辆的价格,使它们更为接近混合类型的车辆。
And then obviously if this is one of Tesla's highest volume offerings, which presumably it would be, that obviously drives a little bit of extra margin on those cars themselves. Now how much that results versus Tesla may be providing some discounts on inventory vehicles remains to be seen, as we've talked about quite a few times. But as we head into the end of the quarter, just the last couple of weeks here, good to see Tesla having enough confidence to up-pricing on one of the most popular vehicle configurations with this opening price point Model Y. So I think positive to see that.
Obviously we talked previously about Tesla lowering the loot box or referral rewards for the Model 3 and the Model Y, which I thought was interesting again, also heading into quarter end. So at least a couple of positive signs there in the recent days on demand for at least the Model Y approaching benefit. Now we also have a tweet here from Chris Zhang, wouldn't put a ton of stock in this, but apparently sources are also indicating that Tesla China will soon begin a new round of price increases as well. So again, who knows, we get a lot of faulty information out of China a lot, so we'll see if anything comes of that.
All right, getting into the cyber truck, so interesting wrap here from Tesla. Actually in the vehicle manufacturing industry there's prototypes out and about testing from time to time and pretty heavily camouflaged with wraps and I think Tesla maybe just paying some homage to that and joking around a little bit here with a camouflage wrap on the cyber truck as obviously we've all seen fairly well-developed prototypes and don't expect a ton of changes.
Maybe there are some things Tesla's trying to hide a little bit, but to me comes across a little bit more as a joke. They even ran it through a drive-through for In-N-Out out there in California and Elon replied to this saying it's a tradition. So I don't know, maybe tradition for like a release candidate or production beta type of vehicle, not sure exactly what he's meaning by a tradition, maybe just a tradition to go to In-N-Out Burger, not sure. But kind of interesting to see this, you know, a little bit more maybe a finalized version and out there testing and making some noise and getting some attention probably pretty intentionally here from Tesla.
Also gives us a glimpse at how a cyber truck might look with a wrap, obviously a pretty unique wrap but a wrap nonetheless and lets us use our imagination a little bit for what some other wraps could look like which I expect will be, you know, a big thing for the cyber truck as it is only going to come in probably one color as Elon has said before which is nothing. So interesting to see that today.
Alright next week we've got some updates on France and Tesla. So we had previously talked about Elon meeting with the French president and apparently they're going to be meeting again, Reuters today reporting that Emmanuel Macron and Elon Musk will be meeting on Friday for the second time in just over a month to talk about a number of things. Macron said I'm going in at that meeting with an agenda.
We're going to talk about artificial intelligence in which he is involved. Digital media regulation framework and then I'll also talk to him about cars, batteries to promote French and European attractiveness and said that it's up to the company to look at these different issues in Europe. So we'll be selling France in terms of whether or not there would be a possible factory location there in France.
So interesting to see this. I don't know that people would put France at the top of the contender list but you know two meetings in a month definitely says something and they also had comments from their Minister of Digital Affairs to CNBC who said that quote, it will be great to have a Tesla factory in France. There's been a lot of effort and energy to make sure this is possible and this can happen and added that the you know they've invested in an entire sector for electric batteries and that quote France is the best possible place in Europe to establish the next Tesla factory.
So the it will be great part. I think that's more of just a translation thing not saying that this is something that is you know going forward as obviously says they want to make sure that this is possible and this can happen. But obviously a lot of you know effort time being spent here by France to work with Elon and potentially you know maybe secure a deal with Tesla for a battery factory, a vehicle factory or some other sort of sort of investment which Elon has said..
that they probably would invest in some way in France in the past. So we'll see what comes to that hopefully a little bit more information will come out of that on Friday. Also something we should see later this week, Elon tweeting replying to whole Mars blog here saying that FSD beta 11.4.4 should go out towards the end of this week 11.4.3 really just started rolling out some more broad more broadly to customers in the last couple of days. So again we continue to see pretty quick iteration here for new version numbers and hopefully you know obviously the 11.4.3 release notes with the same we'll have to see..
if.4 is also the same or you know we're getting a new version with a sort of updated release notes. So it's only keep an eye on there. Then we've got another update on NACS as this continues to sort of waterfall down just a headline only here from Bazinga, Ben Zinga but apparently Mercedes is evaluating a technical implementation for possibly including the NACS in the charging network that they have previously announced that they're developing in North America..
as well as their locations. So it doesn't necessarily mean that they're working on implementing that into their vehicles. I'm sure they're considering it but this seems to be more of a comment in terms of the charging network that they are developing which you kind of hate to be in that position and make a charging network that's you know only CCS compatible and get down the road in North America and if NACS truly does become the standard you're probably going to have to make some updates to that if you want that network to be really viable. So again we'll continue to follow the developments there for NACS.
All right a couple things out of China looks like Tesla is going to be participating in the Shenzhen Auto Show which is starting on Friday. So sometimes these are things these things are a little bit hit or miss. Tesla seems to partake a little bit more in them in China but oftentimes they'll just get these sort of auto shows completely so probably not a ton of news that will come out of that but interesting to see Tesla participating. And then Tesla has apparently denied the rumors that we talked about about Shanghai being a testing ground for FSD. Tesla China apparently told a media outlet..
there that quote the information is not true end quote. So I mean we've talked a lot about China replies to different media reports. It's tough when you get denials like that because you don't know exactly which part of the report that they're denying it could be a very small piece of it but we had previously talked about how you know it wasn't anything that was wide release maybe just going to some employees and some conversations about you know something beyond that happening at some point. So what the denial is not entirely clear but I'm sure there's at least a little bit of attraction there for FSD.
We've also got an update from BYD. I haven't been able to verify this with you know other media outlets but Zhang went on Twitter here saying that BYD's executive vice president has said that due to the inflation reduction act the US market is not currently under consideration for the you know expansion of BYD at this time. So obviously it makes it tough if they don't have you know a ton of factories and battery production supply chain set up here in the US with the inflation reduction act so that kind of seems to be what that is alluding to but hopefully that'll you know give some some cushion for Tesla not that they necessarily need it in the US.
it's a lot more competitive in China with BYD but you know I think what I've kind of presumed is that BYD would maybe come to the US under another brand and maybe a partnership there would make sense. I still think that makes sense so maybe they'll evaluate something like that. Alright and then last couple of things so SpaceX has completed their 200th landing already. I tweeted a couple days ago the video from SpaceX on you know that timeline of all these launches and landings over the year and how those have accelerated to an extreme degree obviously but pretty cool to see them now hit that milestone for the 200th landing of an orbital class rocket and then a couple of quick corrections from yesterday.
I did misquote the headline month over month CPI numbers so we went through four numbers. One of those was misquoted because unfortunately investing.com had not updated the chart yet so I had quoted the results from April rather than the main number so my apologies for not double checking that but month over month was up one tenth of a percent rather than four tenths of a percent and then the second thing the poll start to should have read this full quote because they said that it's eligible for the $7,500 credit but that apparently is only on the leases so for just normal loan purchase not at least my current understanding is not eligible for the credit on that poll start to.
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