Welcome to Electrified, it's your host, Dylan Loomis. First up today, in an Australian first, over 1,700 community housing tenants are being invited to Tesla's virtual power plant, which previously was only accessible to public housing residents. This partnership with Tesla is with Unity Housing, one of the state's largest community housing providers, and this will be the first time that this virtual power plant is being opened to load a moderate income tenants in community housing. Tesla will install batteries and or solar panels to the homes of these eligible tenants, and they can generate and store green energy, returning access to the grid at no cost to the tenant. These Unity Housing tenants could save up to $562 per year. So Tesla's VPP in Australia continues to grow, and whoever said that solar and battery backup are just for rich folks, are not clued in to what's really happening. Along those lines, the Tesla Energy account on X said Powerwall 3 is now available in both Germany and the UK.
The government of British Columbia in Canada has now changed its EV rebate program, so now most Tesla models do not qualify. The first change to the program, now SUVs and station wagons are being moved from the larger vehicle category to the car category. The other important change is the price cap for cars is being dropped from $55,000 down to $50,000. These rebates were good for up to $4,000, and these changes will take effect by the time you're hearing this video. However, there will be a 30 day period for grandfathering some in. If you can take delivery by July 17th and you meet the criteria, you may still qualify. A representative said with EV sales increasing and currently at record levels, we're making these changes given available program funding and to ensure rebates are targeted to vehicles for middle income families.
In response to these changes, Tesla has already dropped the price of the entry level model 3 to get it below that $50,000 cap by $10. But as it stands now, the rest of the vehicles, including all Model Y variants, do not qualify again because the limit for even Model Y's is now $50,000 and the entry level starts at $53,990. We don't get to say this too often, but Model 3 performance deliveries have begun ahead of schedule in China. The word is Tesla has already started deliveries of the new Model 3 performance in China when all along we've been expecting that first deliveries wouldn't happen until Quarter 3. We also got the Tesla China weekly insurance number it came in at $11,700, comparing that to the same weekend Quarter 1 that number was $12,300.
So quarter over quarter through the first 11 weeks Tesla is up 11.7%. However, week 11 of Quarter 2 last year came in at 14,500 so year over year Tesla China is down 8.4%. Of this weekly number, 2,400 were Model 3 and 9,300 were Model Y. Looking at the last 2 weeks for Quarter 2 last year, it was a high number averaging around $17,000 per week. And then the last 2 weeks of Quarter 1 averaged out to about $15,450 per week. Thus, it looks like Tesla China's Quarter 2 will be slightly up quarter over quarter, but still will be down year over year.
在前11周里,特斯拉的季度环比增长了11.7%。然而,去年第二季度的第11周销量达到了14,500辆,因此同比来看,特斯拉在中国的销量下降了8.4%。在这周的销量中,Model 3 占了2,400辆,Model Y 占了9,300辆。看一下去年第二季度最后两周的销量,平均每周约为17,000美元。而第一季度最后两周的平均值约为每周15,450美元。因此,看来特斯拉中国第二季度的销量环比会有小幅增长,但同比仍然会下降。
We got the 2024 Cars.com American Made Index. They really don't share much of their methodology, but the 5 main factors they consider, the locations of final assembly, percentage of US and Canadian parts, countries of origin for all available engines, countries of origin for all available transmissions, and the US manufacturing workforce. Taking home the number 1 most American made car was Tesla's Model Y, followed by the Honda Passport, VW's ID4, Model S, and Honda Odyssey round out the top 5. Tesla's Model X is in 9th, and Tesla's new Model 3 has dropped down to number 21. Ford's F-150 Lightning is down at number 56. The Cadillac Lyric is at 71, and believe it or not, rounding out the list of full EVs is the Mercedes EQE down at 98. That's correct, only 7 out of the top 100 are fully electric, and 4 of those are made by Tesla.
Which makes posts like this from Joe Biden's account on X even more frustrating as he said the future of electric vehicles will be made in America by union workers. When in reality, the Cadillac Optic built in Mexico. Chevy Equinox built in Mexico. Chevy Blazer built in Mexico. Ford's Mach-E built in Mexico. So you get the picture, Cars.com said though Tesla is no longer hold a vice grip at the top of the order thanks in part to changes in this year's workforce calculations. It's worth noting the Model X has the same overall US and Canadian parts content as it did for 2023, and the Model S has 5% more. Only the Model 3 saw a drop in overall parts content percentage. Even so, the Model 3 features a variant with 75% US and Canadian parts content, a requirement of the original American made index only one other vehicle managed for 2024.
There are a lot of people out there saying that Tesla is the only automaker in which 100% of the vehicles it makes in the US are sold in the US. Technically that's not true because for a majority of last year Tesla was exporting the Model S and X from Fremont to China. And unless something has changed that I'm not aware of, they still are. But what I found most interesting was this, a Cars.com survey found that 56% of vehicle shoppers were willing to pay more for a vehicle if it created more US jobs. Of that group, 58% said they were willing to pay at least an extra 10%. Given all of the American jobs Tesla has created, I think they should be advertising that very heavily. If you're wondering why the Cybertruck and Rivian vehicles are not on the list, it's thanks to the American Automobile Labeling Act which says vehicles cannot be over 8,500 pounds. And specifically the gross vehicle weight rating which for the Tesla Cybertruck is 8,800 and up. As Tesla leads the auto industry toward more connected vehicles, this may be one of the most slept on stories. You have a car that is connected with the outside world. Any of those connections potentially could be targeted by hackers. Cars aren't a means of independence and privacy anymore, we can be spied and surveilled. And that leads us here.
GM is now facing a second lawsuit over collecting driver information and sharing it with third parties, whether it's data brokers or insurance companies without the consumers consent. And it's not just GM so as consumers, what can we do? Well, I for one would recommend signing up for Delete Me yesterday. Now yes, they sponsor the channel and they're a US based company that's doing all of the time consuming work, removing all of my personal information from these data brokers continually. So I get to sit back, relax and just read the reports every quarter. Delete me is super affordable and in my opinion, it's a no brainer. Given the fact that last year 2.7 billion dollars was lost to imposter scams and there was 2.5 million reports of fraud. And data brokers are often the catalyst for these events because nefarious actors have easy access to your sensitive info whether you think they do or not.
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这里我们有 Auto Forecast Solutions 的每周报告。他们现在预测特斯拉 Roadster 要到2027年1月才会在弗里蒙特开始生产,这确实是个消息,因为我们大多数人都预计 Roadster 会在2025年某个时候推出。今年二月底,埃隆说生产设计已经完成,并将在年底揭幕,目标是在明年发货。很难对埃隆的时间表抱太大期望,我也不完全相信 Auto Forecast Solutions 的预测,所以我选择取个中间值,期待2026年。因此,如果你期待特斯拉在明年上半年开始生产 Roadster,最好降低一下这种期望。
We're not going to dive into this one, but just so everybody is aware, there is another new lawsuit against Elon and Tesla. This time we have shareholders complaining that Elon has been diverting resources and attention away from Tesla and to XAI a competitor. I've already laid out my arguments for why I do not believe XAI is a competitor to Tesla and I've also said that Tesla will benefit from advancements at XAI. And what did we talk about right when Elon's 2018 complaint was actually rescinded? That was going to open the door for many more lawsuits against Tesla and the board because of that supposed lack of board independence. Unfortunately, as predicted, that has come to fruition. I'll have this lawsuit linked below if you're interested. As Chuck pointed out, as part of the foundation series package for the cybertruck, owners are supposed to have power share and FSD. Well, so far, cybertruck owners do not have FSD and most don't have access to power share yet.
Good news though, Wes, a cybertruck engineer has confirmed on X that the OTA update for the cybertruck when it comes to a better charging curve is still coming later this quarter. I would point out that this quarter only has about two weeks remaining. He also said the range extender is still on track for those who really need it. But some cybertruck owners like techie danny do actually have power share installed and it's up and running, although it is still a beta. So what we're installing here is the new power share of gateway. The way this will work is we're going to install a hundred amp breaker at the main panel. That is going to supply our gateway. What this gateway does is when the power goes out, there's an automatic switch in here that is going to disengage and allow the truck to power everything downstream from this. That way, no power flows back out onto the utility side to, you know, if they're working on the grid out there, nobody gets hurt. So everything behind this will get backed up.
The next thing my guys are going to do in here is we're going to come out of here, we're going to install your backup loads panel. So everything that we're going to bring out of the main panel for the loads we're going to back up is going to get relocated into the new panel. That way, anything that we leave in the main, it will not be energized if in the case of a power outage, but everything we relocate would be. So here we are with the final install. I think it looks super nice. This is the Tesla gateway. It has the Tesla branding, super beautiful, shiny glass front. And then over here is the sub panel. And then this is the raceway, which basically just hides all of those wires.
Okay, so Corey is going to go flip the breaker to simulate a power outage. Give us a good okay. So the power just went out and it went back on. It was that fast. You guys saw that it was like off and back on the cyber truck, a little emblem that glows is purple. So what this is showing is that we are currently using 1.4 kilowatts of energy to run our house and we're just running our house like normal. We're not trying to be conservative. And so with our current state of charge at 78% and our lower limits at a 20%, that gives us 58% to play with and will allow us to power the house for about a day. Pretty cool early beginnings. And it's always in the back of my mind wondering if Tesla will ever bring this to the rest of the fleet. In another survey from McKinsey, they found 30% of global EV buyers said that lack of support for smartphone integration is a deal breaker. Think Apple Car Play and Android Auto. The only reason I'm sharing this is to say I think most consumers don't actually know what they really want. Example, if I didn't know anything about Tesla's native software, I may have ended up in that group saying it would be a deal breaker for me too. In my opinion, just another reason to get more butts and seats.
好的,所以Corey现在要去切断电源以模拟一次停电。大家准备好,停电了,然后马上又来了。你们看到了吗?就像是瞬间关闭又开启了。Cybertruck上的小标志灯在发紫光。这表明我们目前正使用1.4千瓦的电能来维持家里的正常运行,我们并没有打算节约用电。在我们现在电池电量是78%且设定的最低限为20%的情况下,这意味着我们有58%的电量可以使用,足够供电大约一天。这是个很酷的早期测试成果。我一直在心里琢磨,不知道特斯拉会不会把这个功能推广到其他车型上。
麦肯锡的一项调查研究发现,全球30%的电动车购买者认为缺乏智能手机集成功能(例如Apple Car Play和Android Auto)是无法接受的。之所以提到这个,是因为我认为大多数消费者其实并不真正知道自己想要的是什么。举个例子,如果我对特斯拉的原生软件一无所知,我可能也会在调查中表示这对我来说是无法接受的。在我看来,这只是另一个让更多人亲身体验特斯拉的理由。
According to Reuters, Elon told employees that Tesla is working on a stock based compensation plan for high performing employees. In an email, Elon said over the next few weeks, Tesla will be doing a comprehensive review to provide stock option grants for exceptional performance. Of the two people that reviewed this email, one was in China and one was in the US. The email said there will also be an ongoing program to award spot option grants for anyone who does something outstanding for the company. Thanks for everything you're doing to make Tesla successful. You may remember that late last year, Tesla had decided to skip its yearly merit based stock compensation. Now Tesla is bringing that program back with a new twist. It just makes sense as Elon is clearly motivated by performance, so he would want his employees to be as well. I saw some people talking about Warren Buffett selling a bit of BYD.
Listen, he only sold $40 million. He still owns over $2 billion in BYD, and he's currently sitting on roughly a 41x for this investment. So the way I see it, a little trimming of the hedges is not a big deal. On X, Alex has reported that an arsonist has been setting fire to a few different Tesla vehicles across Berlin. Hopefully the authorities can track this person down, but at some point, I think the German government needs to step in and do something here. I would also love to know what Elon really thinks about being in Germany facing all of this backlash over the years. I'm wondering if he regrets that decision. Especially given the fact he has a line of countries around the world right now that are wooing him and Tesla by and he means necessary.
I hate to say it, but so far this year, things for Tesla have really deteriorated in Germany. Weimos said over 14.8 million rider only miles driven through the end of March, it was up to 3.5 times better in avoiding crashes that caused injuries, and two times better in avoiding police reported crashes than human drivers in San Francisco and Phoenix. Honestly though, with all of this data, they acknowledged the problem they said comparing autonomous vehicle and human driver's crash rates is not a trivial task. Their co-CEO also shared a nice little highlight clip. Also, if you see Weimos talking about RO, that's just rider only.
Toyota just held its annual meeting and oh boy does this sound familiar. Shareholders were criticizing Toyota at the meeting. They slammed Toyota for its ongoing safety testing and certification scandal. They grilled the board about its oversight and even accused the chairman of spending too much time on motor sports as his personal hobby. There was also a proxy advisor campaign that questioned Toyota's leadership, the board's independence and the company's environmental policies. Two prominent proxy groups, Glass Lewis and ISS, recommended voting against reappointing Toyota to the board. Glass Lewis faulted Toyota for overseeing a board it calls insufficiently independent. The California public employee's retirement system voted against every company executive nominated for reappointment to the board. Apparently there's a group of shareholders these days that doesn't want CEOs to have any hobbies at all.
And I don't follow Toyota closely enough to know if that's actually a problem but I do know that these scandals certainly are. We've been talking about it for months, this is where it was going to end up and now it's finally happened. Fisker has officially filed for bankruptcy. Tesla's a really different company to Fisker. I mean we're Tesla's a hardcore technology company and we do really serious engineering. In the case of Fisker it was headed by Henry Fisker and he's a designer so he's good at the styling of the cars but he thinks it's all about styling and it's not. The reason we don't have electric cars is not for lack of styling. At this point it's still too early to know how Fisker plans to handle its six year warranty.
Audi has revealed some new information about its upcoming 2025 ETRON GT but we don't really have any official US information just yet it's supposed to come in a few months. The 2024 model started at $108,000 and the RS variant was around $149,000. They did mention a zero to 62 time of 2.5 seconds and the battery pack being bigger up to 97kWh from 84 prior. But as mentioned we're still waiting for official EPA ranges and US pricing. Tesla stock closed the day at $184.86 down 1.38% while the NASDAQ was up 0.03%. It was an average volume day for Tesla trading about 6 million shares below the average volume the past 30 days. And today NVIDIA shareholders are celebrating what Tesla shareholders are looking to celebrate in a few years becoming the world's biggest company by market cap. NVIDIA has officially passed Microsoft for the number one spot sitting at over $3.3 trillion.
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