If you zoom in, you'll see 265 miles of range displayed with these 9 bars right to the left. It's tough to see, but it looks like there would be a spot for up to 10 bars, so if there were 10 and each one was 10% if you had a 300 mile range, each bar would be roughly 30 miles, which would put this Cybertruck, which we would guess is the dual motor variant right around 300 miles of range.
And if you go back to the unveil event in 2019, the dual motor all wheel drive was indeed supposed to have around 300 miles of range.
如果你回顾2019年的发布活动,双电机全轮驱动确实应该具有大约300英里的续航里程。
Here's a nice up close shot of the steering wheel, and again, hopefully tomorrow we get a demonstration of the scroll wheels and all of the Cybertruck features that they can control, plus a new look at the new user interface.
I should point out, I'm sure many will be pleased to see the horn back in the middle of the wheel, rather than one of those touch capacitive buttons that easily bumped.
我应该指出,我相信很多人会很高兴看到汽车喇叭回到方向盘中央,而不是那种容易触碰的触摸感应按钮。
Replying to my fishing for more info, Marquez did say I'll have all the numbers and precious details with this video, most likely it'll be uploaded tomorrow right after the event concludes. That video will most likely be one of the first ones we see where somebody has their hands on the Cybertruck getting to review some of the features in person.
At least for now, on Tesla's Cybertruck page, we just have the countdown, no ability to place a reservation. I'm hoping that at some point after the event, Tesla puts up an actual order page and a configurator like to have up for the rest of the sexy lineup, but given Tesla has to figure out how they're going to handle everybody's reservations, I'm not positive that's what we're going to see just yet.
I did see some people asking about Tesla's press release for the event where it said customers will take delivery of Cybertrucks, I'm assuming they were just referring to their employees as customers. And they did say Tesla will announce details about the Cybertruck again starting 2PM Central Time, live streamed on X and they said it would be on YouTube but I haven't yet seen a link for that. There was a link on Tesla's YouTube channel for a few minutes yesterday but it looks like that got taken down so we'll see.
It is looking like the dual motor all-wheel drive might have right around 300 miles of range so the question now becomes will the tri-motor be over 500. Given that the Chevy Silverado EV work truck gets up to 450 miles of range, I would expect that to be a minimum for the tri-motor Cybertruck.
The first model 3 plus has officially been delivered in Malaysia. Don't forget this market is slowly turning into a key one for Tesla as Malaysia is very focused on EVs. Tesla also just signed an agreement with Malaysia recently where Tesla will be able to sell its vehicles made in Shanghai directly in Malaysia without any import tariffs or middleman markup. Tesla is also in the process of setting up an HQ in Malaysia, they're busy rolling out the supercharger network over there and Tesla has plans to embark on EV battery manufacturing in Malaysia as well.
This one will go mostly overlooked but it's something I really love to see Esther pointed out that since yesterday Tesla's solar array at a V4 location in France has actually been operational and yes this V4 location is open to all EVs. This right here really should be the blueprint for most supercharger locations. Not only will this help to drive down Tesla's energy costs over the long term but it doubles as a element protector from the rain and snow. Good to see this one up and running and hopefully in the years ahead we see plenty more just like this.
This right here is a great reminder of the really astounding feat that Tesla has pulled off over the past decade. I think that the most important thing is that we have to do with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. We have to do a lot of things with the market. If you didn't pick up on the subtitles it was a VW manager talking about Tesla struggling to sell 80,000 cars a year. They were losing a bunch of money. Meanwhile VW was producing millions of cars a year and making money and he implied that Tesla was not being run very well. Martin Vieja, Tesla's head of IR said to be fair to VW this view was shared by the overwhelming majority of industry employees or experts at the time. I don't blame them. I shared their view before 2016.
Let's not forget how difficult what Tesla has done really was especially as we watch the rest of the industry try to figure out making E.D.'s profitably at scale in the years ahead. We have some potentially pretty big news here as the administration is weighing delaying some of these requirements when it comes to qualifications for the IRA credits. That means if some of these rules are pushed back and the requirements are lessened then Tesla may not have to reduce the IRA credits its customers qualify for starting in 2024. Administration officials have discussed phasing in enforcement for the rules when it comes to foreign entities of concern which were supposed to go into effect starting in 2024. A Democratic Senator said we're in ongoing discussions. I certainly weighed in to express support for the concerns of the automakers. Clearly some of these automakers have been reaching out to the administration saying that it's not reasonable for them to hit all of these requirements when it comes to battery sourcing in that short of a timeframe. They said guidance is expected this week finally from the Treasury Department when it comes to defining those foreign entities of concern who they actually are and it'll spell out the details of how much content from foreign adversaries will be allowed in the EV battery supply chain. It'll also outline what percentage of Chinese ownership would exclude a supplier from receiving the tax credit. Of course, Manchin is pushing back strongly saying there should not be any allowance for content coming from foreign adversaries.
This is certainly not a done deal but there is at least now a chance that Tesla gets to keep the full $7,500 credit across its lineup for the vehicles that do qualify. It might sound odd but I do empathize with the administration on this one. It's a pretty tough balance.
On one hand, we do need to start enforcing these rules to build up our domestic supply chain when it comes to battery resources. On the other hand, it's just a fact that the supply chain to the level we need it is not going to happen overnight. It's going to take a number of years.
Still plenty of questions. We'll see if the administration gives in to the requests of the automakers and then the next question becomes well, what's going to happen politically with the election next year and we have to wait and see how that goes. Is this something that can be repealed or reversed?
Here we have it. If the US taxpayer isn't outraged at what the government's been doing now for years already, then this might be something that helps them wake up to what's been going on.
Let's have a listen to what GM just announced today. Now to another reason why shares are moving higher. General Motors deciding, you know what? We paid the union and now it's time to pay the shareholders. This is a big move.
A $10 billion accelerated stock repurchase program is being announced. $6.8 billion of GM shares immediately retired. I did the math depending on where they settle out on the trades. It's going to be about 17% of the float that's out there right now. 33% increase in dividend. The quarterly dividend up three cents a share going to 12 cents a share in 2024.
Big moves by General Motors this morning. They came out and they said, you know, we've got about 1.5 billion in EV investments that are expected to kick in next year. We're deferring those. We're pushing those out. There clearly is a shift at General Motors and I think we'll probably hear the same thing from Ford when it presents at an investor conference tomorrow.
The shift being, look, we piled a lot of money into EVs. That market is not developing as quickly as we thought it was. We're still going to be investing there. But in the meantime, we need to be more judicious with our capital outlays.
First of all, right after GM ratifies new contracts with the UAW, it comes out and says, hey, here's another $10 billion for a shared buyback program. You have to wonder how the UAW members are feeling about that right now. If you're thinking Dylan, they're probably loving this GM stock is up almost 10% today. Just remember, this is purely short term financial manipulation. Nothing more.
We don't have to get into the whole buyback debate right now, but this simply means that GM is now going to have $10 billion less that it's spending on things like R&D and electric vehicles and battery capacity.
As a GM investor, you would want them to take some of that money to figure out what's going on with their market share in their joint partnership with SAIC in China, where they've gone to 15% market share down to around 7 to 8%. And comically, Mary Barra has said that she thinks GM's shares remain undervalued.
She reiterated the plan for GM to achieve low single digit profit margins on EV operations by the end of 2025. And she added, I'm personally not happy with where the stock price is. Truth is, I wouldn't be happy either. Over the last 13 years, you can see the number of days right here. And now you can't see the years down here. GM stock is up only 20% after 13 years. And that's after this 9% move today.
Today GM also said that its new labor deals with the UAW will cost it $9.3 billion. Now that GM has some clarity, they're announcing lower profit expectations for this year. They reduced their guidance for net income to a range of $9.1 to $9.7 billion down from a previous guidance of $9.3 to $10.7 billion.
They said the total impact for the UAW strike will cost them $1.3 billion in 2023, including the higher wages and the benefits in the deal. Bara said, we expect the pace of Cruz's expansion to be more deliberate when operations resume. And their CFO said that spending on Cruz next year will be down hundreds of millions of dollars. Cruz, which will of course be cutting a non-trivial number of jobs, also lost $700 million in the third quarter and $8 billion since 2016.
Mary also said she was disappointed with ED production this year and keeps pointing at the battery module assembly delays. Plus GM said that the new labor deals with a UAW will add $3 per kilowatt hour to battery cell costs.
In a separate article GM CFO said the strike-related costs are the result of 95,000 vehicles lost in production thanks to the strike. But why should the taxpayer be upset? Well, let's take a trip down memory lane.
Toward the end of last year, the DOE gave Altium Cell's GM's joint venture $2.5 billion for battery cell manufacturing. This money was to help finance the construction of their three factories for the Altium joint venture.
However, rather than pushing forward to create all of those good paying jobs, Altium Cell's Spring Hill plant is now going to be pushed back until sometime in 2024 due to construction delays. And rather than using more of that money to try to figure out what's going on with these Altium battery production and assembly delays, they're just going to go ahead and do a $10 billion buyback.
There's more though, you may recall the DOE announcing $15.5 billion in new grants and loans to support a just transition to EVs. That number included $12 billion for domestic conversion of manufacturing facilities and another $3.5 billion for the battery supply chain funding. Now of course, GM is not getting all of this money, but it's also getting a number much bigger than zero.
GM has been receiving all of this federal funding for EVs and battery production, while at the same time they just push back and delay all of that EV production and battery cell manufacturing. Here we have GM pushing back plans to 2025 for converting a plant in Michigan to EV production. And it's not GM just cutting and delaying when it comes to EVs and batteries, but autonomy as well when it comes to crews.
Surprisingly, Dan Ives said finally some good news for GM and sure, maybe in the very short term when it comes to the stock price, but from a long term perspective, GM is in for a world of pain.
Simply put, rather than GM taking those billions of dollars to do the hard work of investing and creating good jobs and pushing forward a cleaner, safer future, they're effectively cutting back and delaying all of that and instead they're going to choose to boost the stock price in the short term artificially, which indirectly taxpayers are funding.
Not a Tesla app shared some 4.27 release notes for the mobile app. One of those was points of interest. You can now click on certain points of interest and get more information in a different view on the location and the hours, as well as the estimated time to the destination.
Every year we see the same report from consumer reports, which we've kind of exposed multiple times now in the past, but when it comes to their reliability survey for this year, they said EVs have 79% more problems than ice vehicles. However, plug-in hybrids were twice as bad with 146% more flaws than gasoline vehicles.
If you're new to this story when it comes to the EV data, it really boils down to new technology, more software-defined vehicles, and vehicles that just haven't been on the market very long, so automakers have not had as much time to refine some of these bugs. We're not going to dive into this one, just know that the report is out there if you're interested.
The main takeaway, and it's really not groundbreaking at all, but the longer you wait for a vehicle to be on the market before you purchase it, the better chance that vehicle has less problems with it. So if you're toward the end of the Cybertruck reservation line and you're frustrated, just look at the bright side knowing that it'll give Tesla more time to figure out any kinks and issues.
Mercedes is going to stop producing its flagship EV, the EQS in the United States, and they're moving that production to Germany. This changeover is expected to happen at the middle of the decade, and they're going to be replacing that production with a higher-volume GLC EV, which they're describing as a cash cow.
GLC production in the US should begin in Q1 2026, and they're aiming for 50,000 vehicles in the first year, which would be more than double the EQS production right now. The GLC should have around 300 miles of range, and an all-new design, and the US production will help make it eligible for tax credits. In the first three quarters of this year, Mercedes only sold 7,086 EQS SUVs in the US.
Toyota is selling a portion of its stake in the world's second biggest automotive supplier Denso, and they're planning to use that windfall to invest in batteries, hydrogen, and software.
We said it months ago, we knew it was coming, the UAW was looking to use its momentum to attack not just Tesla, but essentially the rest of the non-unionized auto industry. They're launching a first-of-its-kind push to publicly organize the entire non-union auto sector in the US. Workers at 13 non-union automakers were announcing simultaneous campaigns across the country to join the union, including at Tesla, Toyota, VW, Hyundai, Rivian, Nissan, BMW, and Mercedes. But there's more, they're also targeting Honda, Subaru, Mazda, Lucid, and Volvo.
Here's the union strategy. They said if 30% of workers at a non-union plant signed cards looking to join, it would then make that public. If 50% of workers looked to join, the UAW would hold a rally with fame to tout the effort. At 70% and with an organizing committee in place, the UAW would seek recognition or demand a union representation vote.
It looks like in the months ahead, we're in for some interesting back and forth when it comes to the UAW and those non-unionized workers at other automakers. The UAW actually has a website up now for this first-of-a-kind move. It's uaw.org/slashjoin, and for Tesla, they said, Elon's the richest man in the world with a net worth of $230 billion. US production has more than doubled since 2020 and Tesla sales are booming. The question is, will Tesla workers get their fair share? This should be interesting.
No video for me tomorrow on Thursday for the Cybertruck Delivery event. We've all been waiting for this now for 4 plus years, so I'm just going to enjoy the day, jump on different streams, and take it all in. You'll see me again on Friday once I have a chance to digest everything that is undoubtedly going to happen tomorrow.
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