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First up today, we have Joe Tett-Mayer sharing some images of something under wraps. So let's let the speculation fly. I guess this was being delivered to Gigatexis. That's the word. And at first glance, you think cyber here, cyber there. And then what's going on over here? So let me know below. What do you think we're looking at? And here's a different angle for you to examine. I'm not going to share my guesses. I will leave mine down in the comments only after I see what you guys think this is.
We have Family Mart becoming the first convenience store in Japan to host a Tesla Supercharger, which is cool, but I'm really sharing this because given all of the recent announcements for Nax, I would expect more shop owners, convenience store owners to start looking into hosting a Supercharger in the United States and North America. And on that front, hopefully in the next week or two, I'm going to have a little segment of an interview with somebody has done exactly that with some cool insight into how the process works. So stay tuned.
Family Mart成为日本第一家拥有特斯拉超级充电站的便利店,这很酷,但我之所以分享这个消息,是因为最近有很多有关Nax的公告,我期望更多的商店和便利店业主开始考虑在美国和北美地区设立超级充电站。在这方面,希望在接下来的一两周内,我将会有一个小的访谈片段,其中的受访者就是一个实际进行了这个过程的人,他将分享关于这个过程的一些有趣见解。敬请关注。
We have Misha Sherudin, who has a very big auto following on different social medias. He was talking about the Model S plaid at the track at the Nurburgring saying without the track pack, it really wasn't up to snuff. But now he has somewhat of an apology for Tesla. So in short, the track pack delivers. And I know the masses may not be interested in this high performance, high price range tech, but it's cool for Tesla to impress performance enthusiasts and to develop a great brand reputation in those circles to keep pushing the limits of battery tech and breaking stereotypes of what an electric car can do. So yeah, I think it's cool to keep up with this stuff. Plus it's just fun to watch the plaid rip around these cars like they're standing still.
我们有Misha Sherudin,他在不同的社交媒体上拥有庞大的汽车追随者群体。他在纽博格林赛道上谈到了Model S Plaid,并表示没有赛道套装,它实际上并不符合要求。但现在他对特斯拉有种类似的道歉。简而言之,赛道套装是有效的。我知道大众可能对这种高性能、高价格范围的技术不感兴趣,但对特斯拉来说,能够打动性能爱好者、发展一个伟大的品牌声誉并不断推动电池技术的极限并打破电动汽车的刻板印象是很酷的。所以对我来说,跟上这些东西是很酷的。再加上,看着Plaid像它们静止一样飞快地穿梭在这些车辆之间也非常有趣。
This one is kind of funny, but could also be seen as kind of a slap in the face for the owners involved. We know Tesla stopped the right hand drive Model S and X in select markets, but they're still delivering left hand drive model SNX variants in the UK. And apparently with those deliveries, they're now including a new Tesla product, the Reacher. So for owners driving these left hand drive vehicles in right hand drive locations, they now have the ability to reach across the passenger seat with this little tool from Tesla to grab whatever a drive through or ticket something like that. I mean, only Tesla, right?
Not a Tesla app in the latest.22.5 release notes, you can see this new camera multi view and it's labeled grid. So the thought is there may be the ability to view multiple camera angles at once. People are naturally getting excited about a potential 360 bird's eye view, but as far as I can tell, there may still be a patent on that technology. I know multiple other automakers have it, but it could be a component supplier that actually somehow has the patent. I haven't cracked that code yet, let me know if you know below, but the word on the internet is that maybe expiring sometime this summer, so I guess we'll wait and see. At the very least though, this would lead us to believe the ability to view multiple camera angles at once in one view should be coming soon. For what it's worth, there's also speculation out there that Tesla's lack of camera on the front bumper is what's really limiting the full bird's eye view that the front camera module behind the rear view mirror isn't enough. But as we just saw with the Cybertruck and hardware 4, it looks like we might be getting that front bumper camera, so could we finally be getting a bird's eye view? There's at least a non-zero chance.
Tech AU on Twitter found one of these job listings on the Tesla careers page 4 vehicle operator. You can see two here in New Zealand. But as you change the location, there are a few others as well. Here's one in Japan. We have four in Australia, we have two in the Republic of Korea, and one more in Taiwan. Here's one of those listings in New Zealand you can see the goal to accelerate vehicle level data collection and to help drive improvement of Tesla's autopilot system. So this global rollout paired with Dojo now looming, exciting times ahead.
We don't need to spend much time here, I think most of us are already well aware of the fact that Tesla's supercharger network is significantly more reliable than competitors. It's just now we have J.D. Power saying as much. But some stats you may not know, 21.6% of EV drivers visiting non-Tesla public charging ports in the first quarter this year were unable to charge their vehicle, compared that to Tesla's failure rate at 3.9%. And J.D. Power said, when it comes to reliability, no other provider is even close to Tesla. If you're thinking to yourself, wait Dylan, I thought you said Tesla's supercharger network was 99.9% uptime. It is, it's just Tesla has a different methodology for calculating that number than J.D. Power has for this survey.
I'm still out here hoping that the infrastructure law will drop the requirement to have CCS ports at these stations to get that federal funding. I'm kind of expecting it to happen, but I'm definitely not holding my breath. One of my physical goals right now is to dunk again. Most importantly though, it's to get my health back. One day soon, hopefully I'll tell you the full story, but for now I'll leave it at this. Don't ever take your health for granted. That's part of why I'd still encourage you to check out AG1, the sponsor of this video. Having spent time in the fitness industry, it's one of very few brands I can have confidence in. The first is on the advisory team, it's part of Lex Friedman's daily routine, the ingredient list with over 75 vitamins, minerals and probiotics is stellar and well-dosed in my humble opinion. And you can actually trust your getting what's on the list because it's independently certified and tested, which I'll tell you is not a given these days.
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I think it's been now the last 13 quarters when Tesla has released its quarterly production and delivery numbers on the second of the month. So that means this coming Sunday Tesla is set to do just that. It's usually around 9am Pacific time, which is 12 Eastern. For the expectations, here's the company compiled delivery consensus. Looking at second quarter 2023, you can see the number 446,823 looking at the median 444.6,000. For reference, deliveries in quarter one were over 422,000 and production was over 440,000. At the time of recording, Troy's most recent public number was 441,000, but he updated it on Patreon and I won't give away that number. I'll just tell you it's higher, closer to the analyst expectations. And just a reminder, from a long term perspective, these quarterly beats or misses really don't matter. But honestly, I do enjoy them. I look forward to them. I like watching everybody's reaction because Wall Street definitely will react one way or another. But again, in the long run, it doesn't really matter.
I don't want anybody new here getting duped with this new interview from Craig Irwin because he was actually pretty complimentary of Tesla, but he also said this. You know, I look at Tesla. I say it's egregiously overvalued, but man, what a fantastic pioneer to drive this industry forward.
There you have it. He thinks Tesla is egregiously overvalued, but let me just remind you of what else he has said. Craig, what do you think fair value is for this company right now? Shouldn't be worth more than Toyota. So I think something well below 100, my price target's 85. Your price target's $85. We're $176 today. I don't believe Tesla's worth more than a company like Toyota sells almost an order of magnitude more vehicles than they do. There's nothing you don't buy the argument that Tesla ultimately could turn out to be way more than a classic automobile company. I think those are false arguments.
So the self-driving capability is something that consumes power. If you're going to have level four with technology that's on the drawing board today, you're going to consume just as much power for the actual ADAS system itself as you would for the drivetrain. The thing about cutting the miles you can drive in half, that's actually also fairly expensive to operate and the technology's not there. It's not safe enough. There's a lot of other things people like to point to, software, et cetera. I don't think Toyota can't do that. There's no reason for us for Daimler or someone else can't do that. These are the times, folks, when you say, tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me. But honestly, what was he talking about with that power draw situation, expecting Tesla to implement some new hardware that's going to cut the range in half in order to get to level four? Tesla already has all the hardware it needs in the car to get to level five. At least that's what they've told us publicly. And yes, I'm well aware you can argue that hardware three won't be good enough. Plenty of people do. Ultimately, only time will tell, but I think you get my point. Tesla is not like the others, Craig. Tesla has elite efficiency.
The Pew Research Center put out its latest poll, surveying 10,300 US adults conducted at the beginning of June. Context, 74% of Americans support the country's efforts to reduce the effects of climate change. 67% of adults prioritize developing alternative renewable energy. But there is one topic under that umbrella that America is disapproving of more than they did just two years ago. That one of course is the idea to phase out gas cars and trucks by 2035. Now 59% of Americans don't support that. Just two years ago, that number was 51%. And if for some reason you needed an argument to understand why all of these NACS announcements are such a big deal, well, outside of the EV bubble, most of the rest of the world still thinks the infrastructure is not being deployed fast enough and Americans are not confident the government and these companies can get it done properly. So it's data like this that just reminds me how much educating we still have to do about home charging and range in the supercharger network and all of the things we talk about.
Speaking of that, we get some pretty interesting comments from Peter Rawlinson about Tesla and the NACS. Talking about all of the hoopla around these NACS announcements, Peter said, what we're really comparing is, is it a screw cap or is it a cork on the bottle? Not the quality of the wine. It's rather bizarre. Now despite that, he still said Lucid would probably adopt the NACS. We talked about the voltage limitations and why I'm kind of giving Lucid some grace here. But then he also said, if you've got the most advanced technology in the world, you're a bit reluctant to risk that. And there's some truth to that even in Rose still says that Lucid has some of the best drivetrain components and systems on the market. But this right here I do think is one of the most important things and honestly no one's really talking about it. He said, whoever controls this, talking about the charging network and the standard, if it isn't an open impartial standard, meaning if it's owned by one company, Tesla, meaning Tesla has access to all of that consumer data, it's who owns that data and making it genuinely open sourced that would worry me. So kind of a double edged sword cutting both ways. Rawlinson also believes government funding for charging infrastructure ought to be directed to slower charging overnight. Some things to chew on at the very least.
Today GM announced an acquisition of an Israeli company Algalean. Effectively GM has bought all of the assets of this battery software startup. This company uses data streams from ED battery management systems to identify anomalies in cell performance to ensure proper vehicle health management and to detect battery hazards like propagation events, thermal runaway. They probably wish they had that tech for all those Chevy bolt fires.
Rivian has a new chief communications officer coming recently from meta. But yes, she also served as the vice president of communications at Tesla at Rivian. She'll oversee product, consumer, internal and corporate communications. And she also spent time at Apple. Pretty decent resume.
Xbong, the EV maker, Chinese EV maker, surging today after it launched its new G6 Coupe SUV in China, coming in at just under $29,000. That's below the price for Tesla's Model Y, which is currently around $30,000 in China and analysts were positive here on the pricing strategy for this new vehicle. Just putting it on your radar as a vehicle to watch in the months to come.
中国电动汽车制造商Xbong今天推出其新款G6 Coupe SUV,售价略低于29000美元。这一价格低于特斯拉的Model Y在中国目前的价格,后者约为30000美元。分析师对这款新车的定价策略持积极态度。将其提醒给你,这是一个未来几个月值得关注的车型。
One more reminder for next week, no video on the fourth on Tuesday, Monday and Wednesday up in the air, plenty of friends and family in town want to be available to see them. I never get to, so I'm going to try to make a video. But if I don't, again Monday and Wednesday, that's why.
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