Hey everybody Rob Bower here and today we've got a pretty quick new review from Sandiman Ro of the Cyber Truck. We've also got a transition in leadership on Tesla's Dojo team, a new updated note from Piper Sandler on Tesla, and a few other items as well.
We do also have a couple of forum forums here, a few of them for Tesla today. These are all relatively minor, so we've got three of these same forums from Drew Biglino, Tom Zoo, and Tesla's new CFO via Bob Dinesia. These are restricted stock units that Tesla's granted, we can see that down here, those stock units were then acquired by the executives, and about half of them disposed in association with tax withholding. That's kind of what the transaction is here for all three of these, and they're all relative to these total share counts, all relatively minor share count amounts.
Nothing too significant there, again just these restricted stock units being granted, and some of them being sold to cover tax withholding. Nothing major there, I don't know why the stock units are granted, maybe something related to the cyber truck delivery, now finally happening.
Speaking of the cyber truck delivery, we do have an updated review from Sani Munro, so first impressions here looked like you got a bit of time with this vehicle at Gigataxis, so not a full review, I'm sure we'll see that at some point from Sandy and looking forward to that, but a few of his initial impressions, he said that this thing handles like a dream, we've heard a lot about this four wheel steering, and I think the four wheel steering as well as front rear wheel steering as well as a steer by wire, so Sandy noting the benefits of that in just the handling of the vehicle, he said he cannot believe the visibility in this vehicle, we've heard some criticism of rear visibility, so here he's speaking to front and side visibility, which MKBHD's review actually wasn't as positive on front visibility, so I'm going to hear a little bit of a different perspective on that in particular, he also found a couple of cool features like the HEPA air filter, this is actually just installed behind a panel in the front trunk, so you can just remove that pretty easily as we can see Sandy do here, just clips in and out, and then you can replace that filter relatively easy to what the air filter replacement process is, and some other vehicles, I'm sure people have given that a shot as well, not the most difficult thing, but this will be a lot simpler, so nice to see Tesla engineering in that simplicity there, and then just kind of a fun thing here in the sort of Smuggler's Bay as Tesla's calling it in the bed, that compartment there, Tesla does have a drain plug in there, I think we previously knew that, so just reiterating that, but also a nice little cyber truck detail on that drain plug cover, and then a couple other things from Sandy, he said the backseat, he was a really big fan of the amount of space in here, we've heard this from a couple other people as well, and this was the case for the prototype, but with this vehicle being a little bit smaller, it's good to see that Tesla has maintained such a large backseat area, large backseat area, in particular he said he's been critical of the rear seat and headroom in the rear seat in the past, but in this vehicle no issues, he said plenty of room for even the tallest people, and said overall just an amazing amount of room, so you can get a good feel for that there, but good to see that reiterated with this slightly smaller from prototype vehicle.
One little complaint I guess would be that the, we've heard a lot about the rear visibility, with the tunnel cover closed of course you can't see anything out of the rear view mirror, so Tesla's solution for that is the rear camera, and as you can see here, Sandy was driving in kind of rainy weather in Texas, and with that being the case, as we can see everything super sharp on this display except for pretty hazy rear camera visibility here, and especially when you do have that as just a portion of the screen, I do think that makes it a little bit trickier, or maybe just even a little bit uncomfortable, the side view cameras were actually still very clear in this type of a scenario, likely just due to their positioning, but we can see that this could be something that is a little bit problematic.
For the front camera, I don't know if we've talked about this yet, but the top gear review showed, I think it was the top gear review, maybe MKBHD, it showed that Tesla does have a washing mechanism to clear that front camera off, it would be awesome if they could implement something like that for the rear view for cases like this where you are getting a little bit of haziness, especially just because of the tonneau cover and the added challenge that that presents with rear visibility.
So we'll keep it on that, you know, it's not something that you can't work around with side view mirrors and things like that, but just for comfort, I think that would be a win. And then we do also have, we did have a comment from Sandy at the end of his video that said that they're going to be at the sort of giveaway event, I don't know if he was referring to Teslas or somebody else's saw some things with UFC or Dana White may be giving a Cybertruck away, but he mentioned that they were going to be giving away eight Cybertrucks.
So I'm not sure if that's a part of this referral Cybertrucks sweepstakes that we have seen, but Tesla's actually updated the language on this saying that one winner will be selected at random and early January to choose between a foundation series all-wheel drive or cyber beast version. So previously, we didn't have the timeline on that didn't have the indication that it would be one of these two vehicles. Not sure why you would choose the all-wheel drive, I guess get it a little bit sooner, but this is free of charge. So if you wanted to wait a little bit longer for that cyber beast, you could do that. So hopefully, you know, we'll hear from whoever is the lucky winner of this from the referral program.
I've also got an update here on Tesla's dojo team. So a little bit disappointing. Ganesh, Venkatarama. I practiced this so many times that I was like, I'm going to get it. Venkatar Ramanan, I'm probably still getting wrong, but hopefully a little bit closer there. Anyway, Ganesh who presented during the sort of progress update on dojo that Tesla had, I think at AI day two, super enthusiastic guy really gave a great presentation. According to Bloomberg has left the company, this happened last month, so sometime in November, according to people familiar with the matter from Bloomberg's report. And apparently Pete Bannon, who's been at Tesla for a long time, seven years, just like Ganesh is now taking over the lead of the dojo project. So don't know if this was Ganesh's decision or Tesla's decision or mutual parting of ways, no other details than that. But it was exciting to hear him present about dojo at the time. He's got a lot of industry experience. He was at AMD for 14 years prior to Tesla, almost 15 years prior to Tesla. And of course, has been with Tesla for a long time as well. So sorry to see Ganesh go, but best of luck for him in future endeavors. And Pete Bannon, of course, we've heard him present, you know, many times throughout Tesla's AI days in autopilot history as well. So definitely a good person to have stepping into that role. Also a very story background for him as well.
我这里还有一条关于特斯拉道场团队的最新消息。有点让人失望。顺便说一下,我练习了这么多次,我觉得我能说对。威克拉玛拉曼(Venkatar Ramanan),我可能还是说错了,但希望离正确更近一点。不管怎样,特斯拉在AI Day 2上进行道场项目的进展更新时,维卡特(Ganesh)做了一个演示,非常热情,给出了一个很好的演讲。根据彭博社的报道,他上个月离开了公司,具体时间应该是在11月。报道称,皮特·班农(Pete Bannon),与维卡特一样在特斯拉工作了七年的人,现在接管了道场项目的领导岗位。我们不知道这是维卡特的决定,还是特斯拉的决定,或者双方共同选择的结果,除此之外没有其他细节。但当时听到他介绍道场项目还是挺令人兴奋的。他在行业中有很多经验,在特斯拉之前在AMD工作了14年,离开AMD前几乎15年。当然,他在特斯拉也待了很长时间。很遗憾看到维卡特离开,祝他将来一切顺利。皮特·班农在特斯拉就职了很长时间,我们听过他多次在特斯拉的AI Day和Autopilot 技术演化历程中发表演讲,所以他绝对是一个适合接任这个角色的好人选。他也有非常丰富的背景。
Alright, next up, we've got an updated note here from Piper Sandler. So Alex Potter always like to get his updated thoughts. This note centers around essentially investors concerns on EV demand. And their thesis is that that that is a little bit overstated and that the demand concerns are primarily coming from incumbent mass market brands, not keeping pace.
So what they've done with this note is gone through each automaker and essentially looked at their EV adoption rates and how that is as a total of their fleet. We won't go through all of those. We'll look at Tesla's here in a second, but some of the main takeaways, as we can see here, they did take down their EV penetration forecasts a little bit. You can see 600 to 700 basis points here. But they're still expecting EV penetration rise to 26% of sales in 2025, 60% in 2030, driven largely by BYD, Tesla and Rivian, which they expect to be about 25% of all sales in US China and Europe in 2030. So in addition to that, they also reiterate that Tesla is, as always remains our top recommendation in this sector. So they're still bullish on Tesla in general.
Here we can see Tesla's market share and things like that over time, percentage of all like vehicles sold here on the Y axis. They say that Tesla is a company that is still on the offense, don't bank on flat lining market share. They talk about how the next couple of years could see slower year over year growth as we kind of wait for the next generation vehicle. Cyber truck could help with that a little bit. But of course, we know that the volume there is potentially capture relative to what we would see certainly from the next generation vehicle. And then something that we rarely see from analysts, but something that is becoming more and more relevant seemingly quarter over quarter or quarter by quarter is energy. So also notes that Tesla's energy segment may grow at a triple digit rate in the next coming one to two years. So good to see that acknowledgement. And hopefully we get a little bit more of that with Tesla energy too.
And then I just like this chart in general shows the various different battery electric vehicles on the market and the relative volumes and the Model Y is literally off the chart. They re-charted here for Tesla's, Tesla's page. But for the other pages, for example, they just cut it off because you couldn't really see the relative scale of anything else with the Model Y affecting that Y axis so much. So they just leave a note there for the Model Y. But here we can see relative Tesla with the Model Y completely obliterating everyone else in a volume. Now, maybe not the fairest comparison, of course, with the ID they've got a lot of models across the lineup, for example, but still incredibly impressive.
Alright, we've got a couple updates on a few stories from yesterday. So we talked about the expansion of unions potentially striking against Tesla in other countries in Europe relating to the ongoing. Again, I don't even know if it's a labor dispute, really just the pressure from unions in Sweden. So now Finland, the Finnish automotive union AKT has announced that they will be joining the blockade that we've heard from from both Denmark, and I can't remember the other country yesterday, I think Norway, that was going to begin on December 20th. So they are going to be joining in that joining in that as well, if there is no resolution by that point in time. We need to have some good comments on this in the discussion yesterday or in the comment section yesterday. Someone told me that I have metal wanted to reach out to me and talk. So I mean, if that happens, that'd be great. I would definitely welcome the conversation. So we'll see could be someone just pulling my leg there too. But hopefully that'll happen. Got to get that perspective just on the efforts in general.
And then I've got a report from Reuters here that says Tesla has lost a legal battle with Sweden's postal service. Today, relating to the delivery of plates for Tesla vehicles in Sweden. So we've actually talked about this a couple times. This was the case where Tesla, I don't know if there's a lawsuit or just challenged a ruling in Sweden that they were not able to receive plates. And that was the same day actually allowed Tesla to begin picking those plates up. That is still the case. Tesla can still go and pick these plates up. This is just relating to the postal service, whether or not the postal service has to deliver it. And this is not a final ruling. This is a temporary ruling while the court's final ruling is determined. So for the time being, they don't have to deliver them. But my understanding is that Tesla can still pick them up, which is what the scenario has been since that last time we had talked about it. Which yeah, that's what we highlighted down here. So we'll see how that unfolds. They seem to be moving pretty quickly with these decisions. So hopefully we'll get more information on that relatively soon.
Then another story that we talked about yesterday was that report out of China that Tesla was looking to expand Giga Shanghai with sort of the third phase of the factory. Remember we said it was sort of in the rumor category. If we look at Elon Musk, Elon Musk's likes on X, we can see that an article here by Eva Fox that was talking about this was liked by Elon. So not necessarily a confirmation, but I think certainly gives us a little bit more of an indication that this is something that is most likely happening for Giga Shanghai. So good to have a little bit more insight there.
Another story on Elon here. So as we've talked about many times over the years, the SEC, the settlement agreement with with Elon Musk back in probably 2018, I want to say, where the SEC decreed that Elon would have to have someone review any potentially significant tweets. At that time tweets now posts on X relating to just the settlement agreement there around funding secured. So Elon has challenged that a couple of times in court. He is now asking the US Supreme Court to look into this case. It's just a request for them to review it. It's not there yet. He needs four out of nine Supreme Court justices to agree to take the case. So we'll see if that does happen, but that was the request made by Elon today. So we could be talking about that yet again.
And then some nice piece of news here from Sawyer on X sharing that Tesla has opened their first sales and delivery center in Connecticut. So Connecticut, one of the states that does not allow Tesla to do this, but like they have done in other states getting around that by partnering with some sovereign land, some some tribal sovereign land, where they have a little bit more control over what they do and do not do. So I just kind of liked this, this website kind of looks like a typical casino website. And then you've got just a Tesla electric vehicle showroom page as well. So kind of interesting to see that. But again, a tactic that we've seen Tesla employ in other states and should be nice to get there, you know, a little bit of a foot in the door in that state.
And then lastly, for today, the house has passed, I think this was yesterday, but the house passed a bill called the choice in automotive in automobile retail car sales. Man, I'm messing this one up choice in automobile retail sales or cars act, which would effectively limit the EPA's ability to finalize implement or enforce proposed rules that would in 2032 require about 67 of vehicles to be electric vehicles or zero mission vehicles. I'm not sure exactly what the wording is on how that's structured. But this this act would potentially limit the EPA's ability to implement and enforce that. So I kind of also looked at this a statement from the Energy and Commerce Committee in the house. And as I was reading this, they say that the cars act stops President Biden's agenda to force Americans to drive electric vehicles, which will seat our out of future to China. And I was like, yeah, that makes sense. If we did stop that, that would seat our out of future to China. And then I read it again, I realized that they were saying that if we require electric cars, that will end up sitting or are out of future to China, which seems a little bit backwards to me, because I think electrification in China is obviously happening very quickly. And the sooner that that happens, the more, you know, the more in the future that is going to be for China. So kind of chuckled to just how how backwards that seemed to me. But when you look through this, you can clearly see that this is something that is in support of this cars act limitation. So kind of interesting to see that at any rate, this will now go to the Senate. And then the White House did issue through the Office of Management and Budget, a statement that said, if the president were presented with this act, he would veto it. So ultimately, it could be a moot point, but still, we'll keep an eye on how that progresses that are up and up for today, though.
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