Hey everybody Rob Manward here and today we are going to be talking about some new comments from Elon Musk on FSD beta. We've also got an interesting demonstration from Tesla on Powerwall installation, some news on Tesla in India and a couple other items as well.
Looking at the stock, rough day for the markets, Tesla down 2.67% closing at $254.11 while the NASDAQ was down about 2.2% on the day. Not too bad of an underperformance from Tesla given the beta, obviously a tougher day in the markets today, probably largely stemming from the downgrade from the FSD beta from the United States long term debt rating to AIA plus from AAA.
So they still have a stable outlook on this debt, but interesting to see this downgrade, they say that this reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden and the erosion of governance relative to AAA to AAA rated peers over the last two decades that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs and last minute resolutions. So of course we had the debt ceiling drama happen recently, it's interesting that this downgrade has happened, I think it's hard to argue with at least this summary point here, but a little bit beyond the scope of what we're talking about here for Tesla daily, but interesting nonetheless.
And then we did also have a jobs report number today that came in a lot higher than expected. So that may have influenced a little bit of the reaction in the stock market today as of course higher job growth might lead to a little bit more leeway for increased interest rates from the Fed as we head into the next meeting. Of course, it'll be a while in September.
So still plenty of economic reporting to come out before then, but that could probably, you know, lead the market to believe that there's a little bit more flexibility for further increases or crates from the Fed.
在那之前仍有许多经济报告将会发布,但这可能会使市场相信美联储在进一步加息或降息方面有一些灵活性。
All right, so getting into the Tesla news, probably the most interesting comment today coming from Elon Musk on the progress for FSD. So they've talked about, you know, integrating neural networks into the planning portion of FSD of FSD beta. Elon commenting a little bit on that today saying that quote, vehicle control is the final piece of the Tesla FSD AI puzzle that will drop greater than 300,000 lines of C plus plus control code by about two orders of magnitude. It is training as I write this, our progress is currently training compute constrained, not engineering constrained end quote.
好的,现在讨论特斯拉的新闻,也许今天最令人感兴趣的评论来自于埃隆·马斯克关于全自动驾驶(FSD)的进展。他们谈到了将神经网络集成到FSD测试版的规划部分中。今天,埃隆就这个问题发表了一点评论,他说:“车辆控制是特斯拉 FSD AI 拼图中的最后一块,通过减少约两个数量级的 C++ 控制代码超过30万行。他正在训练中,我们的进展目前受限于计算资源,而不是工程资源。”
So a little bit more context on what Elon has mentioned before of kind of end to end neural networks or end to end AI, which, you know, we've talked quite a bit about. And hopefully this is what would comprise FSD beta version 12, which Elon has said that he has now tested the alpha version of. So obviously they've got, you know, a long way to go from where they're at today with this 300,000 lines of C plus plus code into neural network coding. But hopefully that can happen relatively quickly. And because they do have that alpha version out out already to Elon, that does seem to be happening at least to an extent already.
And on the training piece of it, of course, as we have talked about, Tesla's training capabilities are about to expand very, very dramatically as you know, July marked the start of dojo production as we have previously talked about over the next quarter, we should see Tesla's training compute power increase by, you know, probably three fold. And then in the next six months from there, probably 10 fold roughly from where we're at right now.
So hopefully a lot of these things correlate with some pretty dramatic progress in FSD over that period of time. It's probably going to take longer than what Elon hopes than what all of us would hope. But I think it's exciting to see the path that they are on. And a lot of reasons to feel confident in that path with what we have seen Tesla do so far with neural networks on the perception piece of FSD beta, which these days does seem to be performing pretty extremely well. So hopefully that can then carry over into the planning system. And we can start to see or I guess continue to see some pretty dramatic step changes in FSD beta. So looking forward to that, interesting to hear these continued comments from Elon on that progress.
All right. Next, we've got an update from Tesla from Tesla Energy's Twitter account today talking about power wall installations and the way that they've been able to pretty dramatically reduce installation times for power wall with part of the part of the power wall component set called backup switch.
So it's a little bit beyond my understanding in terms of the, you know, electrical work that needs to be done. But they do show a demo video that just shows two side by side installations happening, one with the gateway component of power wall and this, you know, on the right with the backup switch. And on the left, they have a four hour installation to, you know, install it in that way. But with backup switch, they were able to cut the installation down to just 21 minutes. So more than a 10 fold improvement in terms of the installation time with the backup switch.
So Tesla does give us a little bit of details on this. I'm not sure how long this product has been out, but I don't remember talking about it previously. Tesla does say that it's a new component in the Tesla power wall system that facilitates backup power functionality by quickly and safely disconnecting your home from the grid when a power outage is detected. The system then automatically shifts your home energy use to backup power from her power wall.
They do say that this is a whole home system. So it isn't possible to integrate in this way with partial backup systems. And they also say, you know, comments on the installation time, although the video was, you know, four hours to 20 minutes, they do talk about in this the possibility of dropping installation time from in some cases, 10 hours for a power wall system down to about one hour, presumably in, you know, a little bit more complex scenarios in those cases.
And then of course, if you want a little bit more information on what exactly the backup switch is, Tesla does break it down a little bit in terms of the pieces of that component of the system on the website. So plenty of information. There's also more information on this in the owner's manual if you're someone that's interested in power wall and potentially thinking about implementing one of these systems. Obviously that would result in some pretty big savings, at least on the installation cost side. So nice to see Tesla continuing to make progress there. Hopefully we hear a little bit more about, you know, progress with power wall. And if there's maybe a power wall three on their horizon, I think that's been teased a couple of times, particularly at investor day where Tesla had a couple of energy products on their roadmap that were sort of covered. So hopefully we get a little bit more information on some of those things pretty soon.
All right. Next, we do have a little bit more information out of India as we continue to do. But this is a report out of India saying that Tesla has leased some office space in Pune. And this office space is about 6,000 square feet located in a relatively prestigious or prominent commercial hub in Pune. So interesting to see this. Obviously the business there is, you know, sort of pre pre launch, I would say. But for Tesla to now start implementing spot for space, we've talked previously about some hires that have been made. Elon has said directly that they are hoping to make investments in India, sort of as soon as possible. So all signs are continuing to point to progress there in India. So interesting to see that report and hopefully one of many that we'll see in the future.
And then sort of relatedly, I guess not really, but in terms of Tesla's expansion, there is an update from the Los Angeles Daily News that Tesla has filed a permit for transforming what used to be a pretty significantly sized movie theater into a new service center for vehicles. So maybe not as exciting for the general public, but exciting for Tesla. This is going to be 118,000 square foot facility for automotive repair and service that it would be replacing again, this movie theater. So we've seen a number of these types of facilities pop up of this scale and even a little bit larger scale over the last few months. So kind of interesting or exciting to see those types of things continue.
All right. Next, we've got an update on Model 3 wait times in Europe. Tesla channel on Twitter noting today that wait times have extended. I'm not sure exactly what they were previously, but now they're all the way out into Q4 and in some cases, even extending into potentially early Q1 on the Model 3 performance, which is interesting given, of course, the talk of downtime happening this quarter from the earnings call.
And we've hopefully seen a little bit of that already at Fremont. Of course, Europe would be supplied by Gigashang Highs production. And what's been happening there with Model 3 has been a little bit unclear. We had the previous rumors that there were shutdowns for highland and that didn't really seem to materialize in Q2. But perhaps now that is contributing to maybe a lower projected inventory flow of Model 3 from Gigashang High in Europe, which then could lead to extended wait times showing in the design studio. So interesting to see that.
And then the last couple of things. Interesting update on Rivian and Tesla today. So the most recent news between these two companies, of course, was Rivian's adoption of NACS as their charging standard, which they'll integrate into the vehicles starting in 2025. But everything is not rosy between the two quite yet because Tesla's lawsuit of Rivian and some former Tesla employees continues over potential breaching of non-disclosure agreements. And I don't know if it's poaching or how specifically Tesla is framing it in the lawsuit. But basically claiming that Rivian is essentially stolen trade secrets through the process of hiring these employees, particularly relating to Tesla's next gen battery systems. And of course, there were also some things about Tesla's organizational structures and processes and things like that that were a part of this lawsuit as well.
So anyway, there's a ruling on this today that denied the employee's request for a summary adjudication, summary adjudication ruling, which would have dismissed the claims. So this is for now at least proceeding. I think that ruling still needs to be confirmed, but if that is confirmed, it sounds like this would be on track to then potentially go to trial.
So that will continue to be a story that will continue to stay updated on.
所以这将是一个持续更新的故事,而我们将继续关注。
And then the last item is that unrelated to Tesla, but for XAI, kind of an interesting development here, AI.com, which had previously pointed to chat GPT, now redirects to X.AI, which is a little bit unclear. I'm not sure exactly if anyone knows exactly what's happening with this. If Elon had this domain and had previously been pointing it, for some reason to chat GPT as kind of a result of his past involvement with open AI, and maybe that was just something that never really got updated or fixed. And now is being corrected. Or perhaps Elon acquired this from open AI, which I don't know why open AI would then be willing to sell that to Elon because obviously he's starting a competitor here, which he was clear that he was doing on that Twitter space.
So kind of an interesting dynamic that I'm not exactly sure how it transpired, but interesting to see AI.com, which is a like X.com pretty prominent domain name now pointing to X.AI.
All right, that'll wrap it up for today then. As always, thank you for listening. Make sure you're subscribed and signed up for notifications. You'll also find me on X at Tesla podcast. And we'll see you tomorrow for the Thursday, August 3 episode of Tesla Daily. Thank you.