Welcome to Electrified, it's your host Dylan Loomis. Quick shout out to my newest patron, Ken R. Thank you for choosing to support the channel. Just real quick going forward if you're wondering why there's no music for my intro and outro, for whatever reason over the past three weeks, almost every single video I upload I get a copyright strike for a song that I've had the license to. I've been going back and forth with support now for weeks just trying to get on their allow list that they're claiming they do not have. And even after I go through the process of disputing the claim and providing my license, there's still an interim period where my videos are not able to be monetized and it hurts the views so just easier to do without it for now. Shout out to Bill who left a comment on the video from two days ago, notifying me that that Reddit user that was saying version 12.4 was unusable. Well, turns out his cameras became uncalibrated. Just to double check what Bill had brought to my attention, it turns out that same user said update, his cameras are calibrated and now back to working 12.4 is incredible.
欢迎来到 "Electrified" 频道,我是你的主持人 Dylan Loomis。首先感谢我的最新赞助者 Ken R.,感谢你选择支持我的频道。接下来说一下,如果你们注意到最近我的视频前后的音乐消失了,这是因为过去三周几乎每个我上传的视频都因为使用了我有版权许可的音乐而被标记为侵权。为了处理这个问题,我已经和支持团队沟通了好几周,试图把我列入他们所谓的“允许名单”,但他们声称没有这样的名单。即使在我完成版权争议并提供我的许可证后,视频仍有一段时间无法实现盈利,这影响了观看量,所以暂时没有音乐反而更简单。
另外,感谢 Bill 在两天前的视频下留言提醒我,有个Reddit用户说版本12.4无法使用,后来发现是他的摄像头失去了校准。为了确认 Bill 提到的事情,我去查了一下,结果发现那个用户更新消息说他的摄像头已经重新校准,现在版本12.4 正常工作了,非常棒。
My usual commute had one to two driver interventions and now down to zero specifically for the incredible part he was talking about being able to handle unclear road boundaries. The user was asked compared to 12.3. Does it still stop before a stop sign creep forward and then stop again and then proceed to which he said no. Does it still fully stop at stop signs? Yes. Does it still have any hesitation for lane changes? Yes, but less than before. He also said there's a noticeable difference between chill and aggressive, which he did not see before. This is just one tester, but what he said about stopping before a stop sign and then creeping and then stopping and then going that was a big problem for me. So that's very encouraging. And once again, thank you for bringing this to my attention on X Elan said 12.4.1 releases
today to Tesla employees. If that goes well, it'll be released to a limited number of external customers this weekend. There are a massive number of changes to this build. It should arguably be called V 13, but we're sticking to 12. Two other versions are in earlier stages of testing 12.5 and 12.6, which could be called version 14 and version 15. We're starting to get to the point where once known bugs are fixed, it'll take over a year of driving to get even one intervention. So there's a chance a small group of customers get 12.4.1 this weekend and then the wider release starts sometime next week. For the past few days, the sentiment around 12.4 had been fairly negative, but just a reminder of how fast things can change.
Obviously, it's exciting to hear Elon talk about things like one intervention per year with future versions, but let's start with 12.4.1 and see how that goes for customers on a wide release. We also have to keep in mind there's really not a clear definition for an intervention versus a disengagement as these two often get conflated exhibit a when I use FSD. Now I hit the accelerator all the time. We're talking numerous times per each drive. So with that count as an intervention, the way Elon is defining it. Hopefully, some of these initial customers end up posting videos, stress testing 12.4.1 as the rest of us wait our turn. Replying to Alex on X, Elon said the existing factory space talking about Gigatexus was already allocated to vehicle battery and cell production. This is not a matter of tucking a few computers into a corner. You need a kilowatt of power in cooling for each GPU, which would mean 12 megawatts of power in 12 megawatts of cooling. The south extension is custom built for heavy power compute and cooling.
The cooling towers are huge. The initial system is 50,000 H100s plus 20,000 Tesla hardware for AI computers and massive video storage. Important to note that FSD training requires massive liquid cooled Tesla AI compute and video storage, not just Nvidia. I think this is the first time we've heard of a specific number when it comes to Tesla's custom designed hardware for not just being used in their actual vehicle fleet, but in the training compute paired with Nvidia chips as well. It would be awesome to get a breakdown of the real world video training and simulation and the inference, aka how the cars actually talk to the training cluster, not just that, but validation as well. And ultimately how this different hardware is allocated for those different tasks.
Germany's RBB 24 is saying that according to the federal prosecutor's office, investigations are still underway into the anti constitutional sabotage and joint arson that took place against Giga Berlin. They also said the police operation at the anti Tesla demonstrations in and around Grunheide in May was the largest in the history of the country to date, which is a good segue for Tesla only reporting 1.8 thousand sales in Germany in May down 64% compared to May last year. More importantly though, year to date Tesla sales in Germany are down 41% compared to last year. Looking at the bar charts from Roland, Tesla is now only slightly ahead of the pace they were on in 2022. And looking at the breakdown by month of the quarter, sure, Tesla may have a very strong third month of quarter too, but so far not looking great. Looking at overall B.E.V sales in Germany this year, every month they've been hovering right between 10 and 13%. That's compared to quarter four of last year when they were hovering between 15 and 25%. So you can definitely see the impact of them removing the E.V. subsidies. Honestly though, I think as bad as the anti-E.V. and anti-Tesla sentiment is here in America, it's even worse in Germany. I'm hearing the media propaganda is out of control over there, so if you're not the likes of Audi, BMW, Mercedes, you're fighting an uphill battle.
Zooming out though to all of Europe, Roland said Tesla achieved 119,000 sales in Europe through the first five months of the year. That's 13% lower than last year for the same time. Don't forget though, in just 63 days we're about to find out if Tesla will release a more affordable compact vehicle with a wheel and pedals. If so, the sales numbers will definitely change once that arrives, and in that case we just have to bridge the gap.
A Chinese source is reporting that BYD's subsidiary foodie, which in American is FinDreams, has reached a supply agreement with Tesla for its Shanghai energy storage factory in March this year. And we'll supply energy storage cells to Tesla in the first quarter of next year. For the Shanghai Megapack Factory CATL will be the first supplier and BYD's FinDreams will be the second. They're saying FinDreams supply share exceeds 20%, so with a 40 gigawatt hour facility, that would be about 8 gigawatt hours at full production at BYD is supplying. The annual order value for this deal is about $480 million. Just very rough math, that would work out to about $60 per kilowatt hour for these LFP cells. The source said Shanghai's Megapactory will mainly export units overseas, but they will also sell some in the Chinese market. Tesla's energy storage shipment market share last year was about 12% ranking first in the world. In second was Sun Grow at 10%, but as I've said before, this industry is not very transparent, so just be cautious with all of those numbers for the energy storage market.
There's a chance Tesla gets a much better deal than $60 per kilowatt hour, one that was just rough math and you have exchange rates and everything else, but they said BYD gave Tesla the best price, which is close to the cost line. Just last week we had talked about how Chinese LFP cell prices were as low as they've ever been and Chinese battery makers charge higher prices for exported batteries, which is what Tesla's been doing for its Megapack Factory in Lathrop. Now they're actually going to be building these directly in China, avoiding all of those shipping costs. And not only that, but now Tesla is reportedly going to get these cells near cost from BYD, so the margin on these Megapacks because they'll be made and assembled in China and a majority will be exported to the European market where they can actually charge higher prices. I'm just speculating here, but we could be talking about Megapack margins from Shanghai easily north of 30%, not right out of the gate, but once some volume gets ramped up and the factor utilization reaches 30, 40, 50%, it's squarely in play.
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I'd love to see more of a focus on rooftop solar in the United States and I think we need to look to Australia as they're setting the example. Australia leads the world in rooftop solar uptake with 3.7 million rooftops representing one third of Australian homes. Rooftop solar now outstrips the capacity being generated by large scale renewables with wind around 11.5 gigawatts and large scale solar about 9.2 gigawatts. The CEO of Smart Energy Council said even if coal fired power or deep nuclear power gets fed in at a marginal price of 0 cents, it can't compete with the electricity you make in a distributed form. When you hear distributed, just think at individuals' houses, there are no transmission costs whereas if you had a large scale solar array, that energy needs to actually be transported. Rooftop solar is now significantly cheaper than grid power. This is not driven by ideology or environmental concern, it's driven by economics.
We know that Elon is anti-vehicle to grid and vehicle to home, but how much of that is because he wants to make powerwall sales and how much of that is just not believing in the tech. Either way, listen to some of these stats, California's 1.5 million EVs can provide roughly three times as much energy as its utility scale batteries. Further, more than 90% of the 2,400 gigawatt hours of rechargeable batteries in use globally are in EVs according to the IEA. Of course, not all customers want to use their vehicles for the grid or even for their home, they'd be worried about battery degradation and having range when they need it. However, we're still pretty early in the overall EV transition and already these numbers are quite staggering, making you feel like it is a missed opportunity of sorts. It's true, there are hidden costs as many Tesla customers are finding out with the Cybertruck and PowerShare, but I think in time, those problems will be worked out. Other companies like GM and Ford are also working on this technology, so hopefully in the years ahead, they can continually make it better and it becomes much more prevalent than it is today.
On X, Cathie Wood was upset about some of the 2024 ESG scores where we have Tesla scoring a 40 and Philip Morris scoring an 85 where higher is better. As I've said many times in the past, I with many others think these scores overall are a joke, but people often forget the G is for governance, so if there was a way for Tesla to score low on that, you could at least make an argument. Again, not that I would make it or not that I would agree with it, but others are out there making it. It's the whole Tesla's board is not independent argument, but if you actually go to the scores from the Forbes 2024 net zero list leaders, Philip Morris was indeed ranked number one, but Tesla this year was number three. That's a huge jump for Tesla because just last year, Tesla was ranked number 71 on that list.
Brett Wynton from Arc was making some jabs at Philip Morris saying, makes sense, killing your customers is a very cost efficient way to reduce emissions. Shots fired from Arc, but the truth is more people in the industry are slowly waking up to these ESG scores actually being a scam. AP ran a new poll in April of this year talking about EVs, but we actually got some comments from real people. Of the roughly 6,200 people surveyed, 46% said they are not too likely or not at all likely to buy an EV with their next purchase. One person said, while Cincinnati winters aren't extremely cold, the thought of getting stuck in the driveway with an EV that won't run is worrisome. And I know it would not be an issue with a plug in hybrid. Come on, Caleb, it's not going to be a problem with a full EV either. One more to give your eyes a workout. A lady from Florida said EVs don't make any environmental sense citing precious metals that must be mined to make batteries including in some countries that rely on child labor or other unsafe conditions.
Here are just a few quick clips from Ron Barron on CNBC this morning. I think in the next 10 years we're probably going to make four or five times our money again in Tesla. So he's created tremendous wealth for people and he was paid if his contract is enforced, which I think it should be. He's paid $56 billion. So it's like winning the lottery, you know, if you and Joe was talking about the before you win the lottery, you don't tell someone, oh, sorry, you won so much money, you have to get a guy. What would you tell a new shareholder, who maybe wasn't there in 2018, how they should think about this? Well, you're buying in right now at half the price it was three years ago. And in part, that's because of this controversy over this contract. So this is actually in your favor. And if he weren't to devote himself the way I believe he will devote himself to the company continuing, then you would be damaged as a new shareholder. You're buying into a company where you have one of the most exceptional, maybe the most exceptional, you know, executive in this country in the world, are running your business. Do you really want to not treat him properly? To show you how desirable it is to work there. Last year, Tesla had 12,000 new hires. And 12,000 new hires, they had 6 million applicants, 6 million applicants for 12,000 jobs.
And so think about that. The reason they have it is not because the name Tesla, not because of cars, because of him. And so think about his ability to track these great people to come to this business, to grow it and run it and make changes that are benefiting the entire planet. And you want to renege on a contract, then a deal you made with him? Yeah, let me ask, you know, Tesla shareholders should have a stake in XAI too. They're going to be using the services. And then the XAI is going to be getting benefit, presume of some sort, for selling the services back to Tesla. But Tesla doesn't, Tesla's avoiding costs that they would otherwise have to invest in chips, to invest in these data centers. These data centers are three or five billion dollars now. They used to be 300 million. The biggest investment we have right now is in Tesla. Yeah, but your new money is going to his newer venture. If I had a chance to buy more stock in Tesla right now, I'd buy more stock in Tesla. Well, you can't like why why why? Well, because I have limits as far as how much percentages I'm allowed to buy. On X Tesla posted congrats 4680 sale manufacturing team on building their 50 millionth battery cell at Giga, Texas. It was just over one year ago that Tesla said they produced their 10 millionth 4680 sale at Giga, Texas that week.
I know it's not linear production, but if you take 40 million sales divided by about 12 months, that's about 3.3 million sales being built per month. Then if you divide that by the number of 4680 sales in each Cybertruck battery pack, that's a 4680 production rate over the past year of about 2,500 Cybertrucks each month. Tesla said they built their 20 millionth 4680 in October of last year. So if you take those 30 million sales built between now and then and divide that by eight months, that would be about 3.8 million sales per month. Again, dividing that by 1344 4680s per Cybertruck pack, about 2.8 thousand Cybertrucks per month. And for Tesla to go from 10 million produced to 20 million produced, that was 4 months. And now for Tesla to go from 20 million to 50 million, that was 8 months. So last year it took Tesla 4 months between June and October to build 10 million sales.
So obviously if you kept that pace steady and made the timeline 8 months, that would be building 20 million sales. But in actuality from October of last year to June of this year, Tesla built 30 million sales over 8 months. The rate is certainly increasing, although it's probably not the exponential growth that many had been hoping for. It turns out Elon will be building XAI's 100,000 H100 supercomputer in Memphis. For those familiar with Tennessee, it'll be in southwest Memphis near the Mississippi River at the old Electrolux building. Earlier this month, Elon said this cluster should be online in a few months. This deal represents the largest investment by dollar amount in Memphis history. The real question becomes when will Grock be available in Tesla vehicles.
Tesla stock closed the day at $175 flat, up 0.13%, while the NASDAQ was up 1.96%. It was another low volume day for Tesla as the market awaits the annual meeting, trading about 30 million shares below the average volume the past 30 days. Nvidia just crossed over the $3 trillion market cap and surpassed Apple as the second biggest company in the world by market cap. Don't forget, check out AG1 links below if you're interested. Hope you guys have a wonderful day. Please like the video if you did. You can find me on X links below. And a huge thank you to all of my Patreon supporters.