Welcome to Electrified, it's your host still in Loomis happy Cybertruck week. It's only been about four years now in the making. Also, for those interested, at the end of this episode, I am going to comment on the sponsorship and advertising situation as of late as I've seen some of you have commented on that.
First up today, the negotiations between Tesla and India are still underway. This is all still subject to change. But Tesla could invest up to 500 million dollars if they get the import tariffs reduced to 15% for up to 12,000 cars. Then Tesla could invest up to two billion dollars if the lower duty is approved for up to 30,000 vehicles. According to a person in the know, the model 3 and the model y are likely to be priced at 45 to 51,000 US dollars in India if the concessional import duty is granted. So this is the latest proposal we have from Tesla. But the word is that the Indian government is actually trying to lower the number of cars that would actually be eligible for these lower import duties.
Over the weekend, Elon did confirm that FSD 12 is indeed rolling out to Tesla employees. Elon did clarify that not all Tesla employees automatically get free access to Tesla's FSD. He said that's not accurate. You have to be on Tesla's quality assurance team. And commenting on FSD 12, Elon did say it feels human now. Yes, there are many terrible human drivers. But of course, the nature of this comment would lead you to believe it feels smooth like a human because remember FSD 12 and to end neural net is trained on other human drivers, the best of the best. A big question remains, will Tesla actually remove the beta labeling from FSD 12 as Elon said they were going to do in the past? Then a question would arise, would this affect how Tesla recognizes that deferred revenue when it comes to FSD? That is once this version is available to all customers.
So it's looking like Elon's prediction of two weeks may have been in actual two weeks. Now I would assume that this is only going to go to vehicles with hardware 3 as in the past Elon has said that hardware 4 would lag by about six months when it comes to FSD 12. However, the truth is this situation is evolving hour by hour. So really anything is possible. Given that Cybertruck is expected to have hardware 4, that would lead me to believe Cybertruck will be rolled out with a variant of FSD 11, but again anything here is possible.
I think it's worth a reminder given the magnitude of this update. There's a chance this stays with only employees for a few months before actually rolling out to real customers. I have no special source on that one. I just don't want us getting over our skis here. We also had Ray for Tesla sharing a Chinese source that said the prep work for rolling out FSD beta in China is currently underway. Translating that image, it says Tesla's FSD is considered to be entering the countdown stage in China on November 23. Tesla China also responded to reporters on this issue saying it is indeed being pushed forward. I would add this is indeed very vague. My biggest question here, whenever Tesla does get around to launching FSD in China, will it be version 12 or will they stick with version 11?
考虑到这次更新的重要性,我认为提醒一下是值得的。有可能在实际向真正的客户推出之前,这个更新只保留给员工使用几个月的时间。对于这一点,我没有特别的消息来源。我只是不希望我们在这个问题上操之过急。此外,我们还有来自特斯拉的雷(Ray for Tesla)分享了一个中国消息源,称特斯拉在中国推出FSD beta的准备工作正在进行中。翻译该图片显示,据悉特斯拉的FSD将于11月23日进入中国的倒计时阶段。特斯拉中国还对记者回应表示它确实正在推进。我要补充的是,这确实非常模糊。我最大的问题是,特斯拉何时在中国推出FSD时,会是版本12还是继续使用版本11?
Tesla has also applied for a patent that deals with training vision-based vehicles with both real-world and simulated data. It's important to note once a patent has been applied for it can then go through a series of iterations and changes. Oftentimes becoming more narrow in scope. While Tesla may indeed be looking to have exclusive access to a technique like this, Tesla also may just be preemptively stopping any other automaker from applying for a similar patent that in the future could actually hinder Tesla's ability to continue doing what it was already doing. I'm no expert but the idea of supplementing vision-based system training with simulated content is indeed very broad.
Lastly, I think it's worth noting over the years Tesla has indeed filed other patents that were more defensive in nature. Rather than trying to get some sort of monopoly over a system or product.
I did want that to serve as a segue for something very interesting that was happening over the weekend. This was shared by an open AI employee. They said, "I've trained a lot of generative models, more than anyone really has any right to train. As I've spent these hours observing the effects of tweaking various model configurations and hyperparameters. One thing that has struck me is the similarities between all the training runs. In other words, how they actually adjust the weights of the neural nets doesn't make that much of a difference in the end. They said trained on the same dataset for long enough, pretty much every model with enough weights and training time converges to the same point. It implies that model behavior is not determined by architecture, hyperparameters, or optimizer choices, it is determined by your dataset and nothing else.
Then when you refer to lambda chat GPT bard or clod, it's not the model weights that you're referring to, it's the" data set replying to this Elon said data is the spice There are many different rabbit holes we could dive into but my one main takeaway here is that over the long term It really is going to be the companies with the access to the best data sets that have the best chance of success Elon also shared a link to this article. It's called the bitter lesson definitely worth a read if you have not already But the simple takeaway the only thing that matters in the long run is the leveraging of computation Basically after decades of AI research We've had these researchers trying to inject their own human knowledge into these models whether it's adjusting the weights or the parameters But at the end of the day real advancement in this field boils down to compute power This bitter lesson can be summarized by breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling Computation by search and learning and that these researchers trying to inject that knowledge or that human input into the models May help in the short-term but in the long run it plateaus and even inhibits further progress
So now we're staring at two massive advantages that Tesla has one when it comes to real world data if the data set is indeed the actual spice and to the compute power in terms of actually leveraging that data on this topic Chymoth said it's pretty clear now This is a race to own data that is valuable in fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback You should expect foundational models to be largely commoditized and largely free largely soon This part of course is certainly speculative then he said non-obvious data sets of huge value in this end state Tesla's real-world environment data one area I'll be studying in the weeks ahead is how synthetic data or simulated data is going to be compared to real-world data We've known that the competition can't copy Tesla's real-world data because Tesla has a fleet of five million vehicles Constantly gathering that real-world data So then comparatively how difficult would it be for the competition to start coming up with their own synthetic data? What are the challenges involved and then hypothetically if they were to have a comparable amount of synthetic data to Tesla's real-world data What would the pros and cons be and what would the differences be and when you loop in a possible partnership between Tesla and X AI? Which brings grok into the equation that is trained on X's real-world live data Which is in a sense the real-time consciousness of all of those humans that are actually using X that becomes a massively valuable Data set I just find it comical we still have so many Analysts splitting hairs over a couple thousand deliveries here and there and the timing of that when the real conversation should be around Tesla's real-world data paired with its computational advantage when it comes to dojo and all of the billions of dollars It's spending on buying compute hardware from Nvidia compare that Tesla package to what Ford? GM Toyota have in terms of real-world data or compute power and I know I know it hasn't really played out Yet in terms of Tesla's revenue or profitability, but over the next five to ten years Where do people think this is headed just to set the stage on what's going on with Tesla in Sweden?
Nicholas could not share the source on this, but he said an IF metall employee has been threatening Tesla's staff saying things like You must strike or you'll never work at a unionized workshop again It's for your own good if you want a job in the future Which if true would certainly confirm the notion that these unions in Sweden have mafia-like tendencies I think that'll make this news even sweeter
Tesla filed a lawsuit today against the Swedish Transport Agency over a worker strike That has effectively blocked the delivery of license plates This agency had turned down Tesla's request to pick up the license plates itself and also declined to send them via distribution channels other than post-nord against whom Tesla actually filed a second separate lawsuit spoiler alert on the same day
We have Tesla already now allowed to collect its license plates from the manufacturer Scandinavian Motor Center Further if the transport agency does not comply within seven days a fine of about 94,000 US dollars awaits the agency when it comes to the lawsuit that was filed against the transport agency already There has been a decision in which they approved Tesla's lawsuit at least for now in the separate lawsuit against post-nord There has not been a decision made yet However in response to the Tesla victory that they can now collect their own license plates Elon did say thank you Sweden
现在特斯拉已获准从制造商Scandinavian Motor Center领取车牌。如果交通机构在七天内不遵守规定,他们将面临约94,000美元的罚款。关于对交通机构已提起的诉讼,已经做出了一项决定,批准了特斯拉的诉讼,至少目前是这样的。而对于针对邮政公司的单独诉讼,尚未作出决定。然而,在特斯拉获得他们现在可以领取自己的车牌的胜利后,埃隆表示了感谢瑞典。
Here we have some data from Cox Automotive showing us October days of supply for inventory by brand The inventory average days of supply in the green 67 compared to Tesla down at 16 How many times have we seen articles written about Tesla's major inventory problem? Toyota with the lowest reading of 33 days of supply is still double where Tesla sits at 16 Reminder Tesla does not have an inventory problem
a new battery storage project in Queensland has been registered and Officially connected with work on commissioning to begin soon in Queensland This project includes 80 Tesla megapacks and is set to be fully operational in early 2024 This project was part of the state's response to an explosion at a coal-fired generator Which convinced the country's most cold dependent state to accelerate its switch to renewables and storage?
This video is getting a ton of attention over the weekend So I just wanted to add some clarity here The Model Y was going up this ramp on one tire showing the rigidity of a Tesla vehicle and potentially a structural battery pack Then they showed what was happening with this Toyota pickup truck a lot of folks were just blindly using this vehicle to say how much better A Model Y is compared to that Toyota pickup for whatever reason, but this ramp is actually a real test It's the RTI or the ramp travel index It's a way of measuring a vehicle's suspension articulation abilities and usually this is used in an off-roading context the more it can actually articulate the better it can handle off-road Scenarios keeping more wheels on the ground for longer the actual test measures how far up the ramp a car can go before the back Driver side wheel actually lifts off the ground you then divide that number by the wheelbase to get the RTI score
There's a lot more we could talk about here, but I saw plenty of different interpretations of this video So thought that that context might help a little bit
a reddit user shared some images of giga Berlin slowly transitioning into a hangout spot Now that we have v4 superchargers the lobby now open to the public and these images of giga Berlin with some christmas decor Not only do they have trees and lights right outside of the entrance They also have some curling sheets set up right outside the factory
fully charged posted on x saying tesla has won five of the 15 categories for the fully charged This was the first year for this award show and the nominees were selected after a large scale survey of the fully charged show audience tesla took home the award for the best ev charging network The best innovative ev manufacturer best energy efficient ev and the best ev under certain price thresholds for the model y and model 3 Only five out of 15 though tesla needs to do better
Green the only said software update dot 44 dot one will bring us the front camera getting a washer too And a button to activate it. This is what the button may look like He also said apple podcast may be added to media playback with different playback speeds available He also said tesla's cabin camera could now be used to enable or disable h o v lane use on that camera washer It remains to be seen how it's implemented but in the past we have seen this image on a tesla cyber truck And bmw has already implemented a feature like this where it has the logo pop out to shoot out some soapy water
We had this Norwegian source motor naming the Tesla Model 3 the best car purchase of the year. I thought this was funny. They said the expert said just wait when beginning to bet on electric cars, saying Tesla is going to die. But the experts die first adding Tesla's position is stronger than ever. We won't go into the details because most of it was them speaking highly of the refreshed Model 3. But I will include this below if you want to read more.
Tesla China analyst on x said Tesla charging will make a major announcement tomorrow. So could this be a new partnership where another automaker uses Tesla supercharger network in China? Hopefully we find out in the next 24 hours.
Over the weekend if you totally checked out and you didn't see all of the lines around the country where Cybertruck was at Tesla showrooms and the people that were lining up taking pictures and videos. Now, yes, it was Black Friday weekend, a lot of these shopping centers are naturally going to have more people than they otherwise would. However, this is a perfect indication of the halo effect that the Cybertruck should have for Tesla's brand to all of us. This is like the oldest news around when it comes to the Cybertruck. But we have to remember how many millions of people still don't even know that the Cybertruck exists. Let's not forget when it comes to vehicles a lot of people just want something different. Yes, of course utility comes into the mix as does pricing. But having something that the rest of the crowd doesn't is a very attractive proposition, and the Cybertruck is going to be exactly that.
OMG Tesla also posted this video showing us two new Cybertruck features. You may have missed the first one, but it was the Cybertruck wake up light sequence. So here it is again. Pretty cool. This video also shows the Cybertruck suspension raising right when the person got in the car. I'm not sure if it was a setting that they had pressed or if it happened automatically for their personal profile. Either way, though, hopefully on Thursday, we learn about even more unknown Cybertruck features.
Here we have potentially an even more exciting patent that Tesla has applied for. This one has a lot to do with the interior cabin camera and its ultimate functionality. It would be to use the passenger's positioning and facial expressions to do certain tasks. Example, let's say the driver is unresponsive. The vehicle would be able to call 911 and or drive you to the nearest hospital. Or on a lighter note, how about things like greeting you by name, automatically knowing what your personal profile is, adjusting the HVAC controls to target certain parts of your body, mark an unrecognized occupant as a new user and generate the request to set a new profile on display Infotainment head unit. We don't need to go through all of the use cases here. But I think you get the idea, this has many, many different applications.
Last week we heard the word out of Tylen was that Elon and Tesla were going to put their tie plans on hold. Fast forward to today, we have Ty financial media saying Tesla's willingness to establish a new factory in Tylen is there, and they plan to invest at least five billion dollars. This from a recent interview with Ty's prime minister Sveta Tawasun. The only tangible data here we got was that Tesla's senior management will visit Tylen this week to discuss potential site selection for a new factory.
We have Auto News Europe saying it's safe to crown the Model Y as Europe's top seller for 2023, even though there's still two months to go. Implying that the lead is insurmountable. They said the Model Y finished January through October with a 15,000 unit sale lead over the second place Dasya Sandero. The Model Y would be the first electric car to finish the year as Europe's number one seller. It would also be the first midsize car, the first premium car, and the first non-European car in the modern VW's brand era to do the same. It's not a done deal yet, but this would be a major accomplishment.
And I would add the dasya sandero costs about 15 000 us dollars
我想再补充一点,Dacia Sandero的价格大约为15,000美元。
How about this one vw's brand chief is now confirming what most of us have already known Volkswagen's original brand is no longer competitive owing to high costs and low productivity With many of our pre-existing structures processes in high costs were no longer competitive as the vox wagon brand They said their 10.9 billion dollar savings program will include staff reductions Of which the full detail should be known by the end of the year And they said we need to finally be brave and honest enough to throw things overboard that are being duplicated within the company Or are simply ballast we don't need for good results It's one thing to have retail tesla shareholders say something like this now for months if not years But it's an entirely different thing to have vw's own brand chief saying the same thing publicly
Bloomberg nef saying battery pack prices have resumed their long-term trend of coming down after their increase. last year According to an industry survey the average pack price fell to 139 per kilowatt hour this year down 14 percent from 2022
We also have the cn tv post saying that the supply and demand balance point for lithium is expected to occur by the end of 2024 or 2025 the simple takeaway especially in china right now There is still actually oversupply as if four didn't have enough headaches
We now have 404 dealers that have dropped out of the model e certified program since the initial enrollment numbers It turns out Ford also now wants its dealers to carry very little eevee inventory on their lots in illegal battle in Illinois the state's motor vehicle board determined for to broke the law by requiring dealers to make big investments and return for the ability to sell eevees In response ford has reduced the number of chargers it requires at dealers It's pushed back the deadlines for those chargers and they've slashed training costs in half Now it's not just ford but a non trivial percentage of its dealer network that is also backing further away from eevees
We're not going to get political here. So no worries just so you know though today elon has been in israel visiting the prime minister
我们不会涉及政治问题。所以不用担心,只是提醒你一下,今天埃隆一直在以色列拜访总理。
A quick anecdote from stellantis they said they may have to change their strategy if political and public opinion tends toward fewer eevees Another example of legacy oem plans changing like the winds the official cyber truck account on x just posted this year at cyber thursday 2pm central time presumably the beginning of the event rivian is now offering leasing for the r1t in four states California, New York florida in texas they did say the $7,500 tax credit would be applied to the lease payments a u.s. Labor board has dismissed claims that tesla illegally fired employees Working on autopilot software at gig in new york to put an end to union organizing the nlrb tossed out a complaint that was filed back in February by the union workers united
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