Welcome to Electrified, it's your host Dylan Loomis, quick shout out to my newest patron, Ister Gray. Thank you for choosing to support the channel. As we've often said, things can happen fast in Tesla Land and these quarter to numbers are a great reminder of that. Tesla Energy crushed its prior deployment record and it brings with its some implications for Tesla's stock going forward. Analysts like Adam Jonas are saying they're admitting they were not bullish enough, calling the energy number for this quarter a show stealer that was twice their forecast.
There's also a lot to break down with this delivery number that also far exceeded the whisper number and as predicted, the market liked it. Although if it's a sharp market, I think they'd be liking the energy figure even more. On the auto side, Tesla's production came in at 410.8,000 and deliveries were 443.9,000, meaning Tesla cleared over 33,000 vehicles from inventory. This should mean that Tesla's global inventory from a days of supply standpoint should be back down to around 20 days from near 30 days where it was exiting quarter one.
And as we said, after quarter one, we needed to see quarter two play out because Tesla's production in quarter one was 46.5,000 units higher than the delivery figure. Naturally, there was debate about if those vehicles would find buyers throughout quarter two and this number proves yes, they did indeed. However, I don't think it's all roses here as Tesla's production was down 5% quarter over quarter, coming in 22.5,000 units below quarter one.
And then it gets a bit worse because Tesla's production in quarter two of last year was 479.7,000, meaning year over year Tesla's production is down over 14%. So clearly Tesla factories are operating at less than full capacity and the quarter two numbers this year include the cyber truck ramp and we can't use the Model 3 refresh as an excuse for low production because throughout much of quarter two it was back to normal levels. So I'm reading Tesla's production levels as then being a bit cautious so as to not over produce, meaning they may have slightly needed demand expectations heading into quarter three and quarter four.
On the bright side, Tesla's inventory sitting around 20 days of supply does not factor in Tesla's cars in transit. Remember, it takes time for a car to exit one of the factories and ultimately make it to the end consumer for delivery. So anyone arguing Tesla has an inventory problem, I believe is sorely mistaken. Tesla's far below the industry average, which was 50 days of supply and higher and as Tesla grows with more locations, it's actually going to need more vehicles available on site for customers to experience.
One other thing on deliveries since the other models category now includes cyber truck and the cyber truck was likely between 10 to 13000 for production and delivery for the quarter. That means Model S and X sales are a bit below the 15 to 20,000 quarterly figure that we would like to see. But cyber truck is on track to more than make up for it and with each passing quarter, the cyber truck margins will get better and better as Tesla reaches scale.
And look, there are headlines out there about a disappointing quarter for Tesla and ultimately that just boils down to expectations. Zooming out, it is true that year over year for quarter two, Tesla's deliveries are still down about 5%, falling short by 22.1,000 units. But the only expectations that really matter are Wall Streets and Tesla did exceed those materially. And shout out to Brian from Futuraza and James Cat for being the closest retail investors on the delivery numbers with predictions of 430,000. This time around though, the Wall Street consensus won the day as that final estimate was 436,000.
But all eyes per the usual will be on Tesla auto margins, X credits, and this number should see a boost with a nice delivery bounce quarter over quarter. An extra 57.1,000 units delivered in quarter two compared to key one with fixed manufacturing costs should lead to positive margin tailwinds and free cash flow may come in strong as well given Tesla's reduction in inventory. But the final free cash flow number will depend on Tesla's cash outlays for the quarter as we know they're spending heavily on AI and compute.
On the energy side, I went through a little analysis to contextualize the 9.4 gigawatt hours of battery deployments on X. I'm not going to get into it here but the TLDR is that this number could translate into about $5.3 billion in revenue and $1.3 billion in gross profits for Tesla energy. Previously, Tesla energy's record quarter for revenue was $1.6 billion and the record for energy profit was $403 million.
I did use the assumption that Tesla's average selling price for the megapack was $2 million throughout the quarter but throughout Q2 Tesla was gradually lowering the price of the megapack and currently it's all the way down to about $1 million per megapack. We have to remember though Tesla will not actually recognize these revenues and profits until a future quarter once certain project milestones are met but they are going to hit at some point in the foreseeable future and this should be a great reminder of what Tesla energy is capable of and why we've been calling it a sleeping giant for years. Just wait until Tesla ramps up it's Shanghai megapactory next year.
Some are saying Tesla's megapactory and Lathrop is already operating at full capacity since 9.4 gigawatt hours annualized is 37.6 gigawatt hours and Lathrop's capacity is 40 gigawatt hours. But remember that 9.4 gigawatt hour number includes Powerwall and it's likely that Tesla produced some megapacks in quarter one that just didn't get deployed until quarter two. Plus on the key one call this year we learned Lathrop is ramping as planned. Tesla has its second general assembly line now ramping allowing them to increase the megapack rate from 20 gigawatt hours per year to start this year up to 40 gigawatt hours per year by the end of this year. So we're well on our way but I would not say Lathrop is at full capacity just yet.
I like how the K framed it on X in terms of auto revenue using a bit different numbers though if Tesla energy does indeed generate around 5 billion dollars in revenue from these quarter two deployments that's equivalent to the revenue Tesla would earn from 100,000 cars at an ASP of 50,000 dollars. And as we know Tesla energy currently has higher margins than Tesla auto so not too bad for just a car company. And finally that does not even account for Tesla energy's backlog or its reserve. Tesla is building up revenue and profits that are recognized in future quarters and that means each quarter Tesla will be recognizing some of that reserve from prior quarters which after quarter one sat at 3.86 billion dollars.
Looking at this chart from Sawyer for my visual learners it appears as though the Tesla energy coming out party has finally begun. At least for now the Tesla megapack ordering page is now live again so that's how we can see if we drop the quantity to one we can see the estimated price is roughly 1 million dollars again it depends on the state. Which means yes year over year Tesla's megapack pricing is down roughly 50% as for part of 2023 it was 2 million dollars per megapack. You know how we've read some articles about an oversupply of battery cells coming from China well that's most likely the primary driver of Tesla lowering cost to this level.
And even one of the sharper Tesla energy analysts out there in my opinion Matt Smith said that the new number is shockingly low. Now we're going to have to wait until quarter three and quarter four to start to see what Tesla energy margins might look like after this big revision because again most if not all of Tesla's megapack sales in quarter two were not at that one million dollar price point. There was a time last year when the Tesla megapack backlog was about two years out but as it sits right now it's roughly three quarters out.
So this Tesla energy deployment number for quarter two was absolutely incredible but moving forward we have to cap some of our upside with this new megapack pricing on X Elon replied to whole Mars but it was not kid friendly Elon did say once Tesla fully solves autonomy and has optimists in volume production anyone still holding a short position will be obliterated even gates. SMR said Tesla delivers a few more vehicles than expected plus 9% Tesla on the cusp of autonomy down 50% from all time high down 8% year to date can't wait to see what happens when people figure out robot taxis are happening and the implications to which Elon said yeah this is small relative to vehicle autonomy and optimists Dan I've said the new bull run in Tesla has begun in our view with the mojo front and center for Elon with a historical robots axi day August 8th and demand turning around for Tesla most undervalued AI play in our view and bloomberg highlighted the three month call skew which measures the premium of call options over puts is the widest it's been since February 1st 2021 translation Tesla option traders are as bullish as they've been in the past three years just so you know a Tesla option with a 25 delta would just mean that for every $1 that Tesla stock price moves the option value would move by 25 cents and given every option contract is for 100 shares that would mean the expected move in your position would actually be $25 for every $1 move in Tesla stock another way of saying it if the option has a delta of 25 that means it has a 25% chance of ending up in the money what do you know can accord genuity decided to raise its Tesla stock price target $254 wonder. why they did that today but more importantly they said one metric is going to stand out head and shoulders above the rest that one being Tesla's fsd take rate their autonomy uber bulls but they believe in its current form Tesla would be best served with another fsd price reduction but we'll see maybe fsd take rates are through the roof unfortunately for george i'm not sure we're actually going to get that number and as so you're highlighted cumulatively since Tesla began production of the model s back in 2012 with these q2 numbers Tesla is now over 6 million cars delivered sitting at 6.2 million and just a little fun fact i don't think it's official yet but based on some estimates from Reuters they're saying byd sold 426 000 full evs in quarter two meaning for quarter two Tesla once again has the full ev leader crown taking a look at some more feedback for 12.4.2 dirty Tesla posted a video saying it took him 40 miles needing only one accelerator tap the entire drive zack said he took it up the canyon to pick up lunch and it was the best drive up this narrow canyon he's had on fsd to date stayed in the lines perfectly and at a great speed way more confident compared to other versions balancing those out from an og tester tech geek he said there seems to be minimal recognizable progress with fsd since 12.3.6 came out and he's someone who's been using 12.4.1 and 12.4.2 but in the comments Rocco said it was a significant improvement for me i think it depends on the area my speed limits were terrible before and a slew of other issues that have all improved but in the comments tech geek did say that 12.3.6 he would rate an 8 out of 10 and 12.4.2 he would give a 9 out of 10.
James Locke said went for a longer 12.4.2 drive around sanaklareta and it didn't go quite so well had to save the intervention ran a red light and completely missed the navigation route as it did not move over lanes quick enough so as you may expect there are still mixed reviews when it comes to 12.4.2 elon did repost whole maras saying yeah fsd is awesome once you use tesla autopilot fsd for commuting you won't use any other car honestly though for somebody like me i wouldn't want any other car even if tesla didn't have fsd at all. free dead one who works at altimeter capital had a great write up on the autonomy space she's now tested almost all of the auto makers both level two and tesla's fsd. after that here are some of her thoughts talking about some of the major chinese brands overall they exceeded my expectations the rides were not overly cautious and handled complex situations quite well but nothing compares to tesla's approach i see imitation learning and end-to-end as the only effective approach for self-driving while chinese peers perform well on main roads they struggle on frontage roads due to reliance on high precision maps and rule-based methods despite that chinese evs self-driving capabilities are far ahead of those from the us and eu brands i doubt any chinese players can profit from level two self-driving not because it's not useful but because it's hard to differentiate and price wars dominate the market in china on the robo taxi scene in china for companies like pony, dd and bydo the user experience is nearly perfect but expansion is the real question chinese robo taxi companies. are very sophisticated interestingly most companies express the preference not to operate fleets themselves they aim to be asset light and let fleet managers handle operations china has a very clear approval process driven by data autonomous driving distance fully driverless distance intervention rate passenger ratings etc so according to frita many chinese auto makers are making great progress with tech like level two and some of the robo taxi players are great but the same questions about scaling exist and most importantly tesla is still in a league of its own when it comes to actual self-driving i value this opinion from frita who has now experienced all of these different technologies in china a lot higher than somebody just watching videos of experiences online
giga brilin has appointed a new head of production christian adrien who's been working at tesla now for the past four years tesla said christian will be responsible for all production processes here at the factory the only exception is the cell division which is currently done exclusively for the cyber truck the last update we had giga brilin was making parts of the 4680 cell and then shipping them to the united states for final assembly giga brilin's plant manager andre tereg emphasized the purpose of the reorganization is to increase production efficiency on x alex shared a study from the german center of automotive management their study said that bmw was the most innovative automaker globally to which elan shared this german phrase which translated on google gives us dumber than moldy bread so if that's the saying how could i not share that
according to hondelsblott vw and rivian could now significantly expand their partnership not only are they working on that software and electrical engineering collaboration but now they're saying that they may be working on hardware and production together both the hardware collaboration and joint production are being discussed in particular vw's us electric brand scout could be included in the partnership with rivian gm released some q2 data and for full evs year to date they delivered 38.3 thousand in the first half of this year 21.9 000 of those coming in quarter two alone in quarter two it was deliric with 7.3 000 sales and the one i've been wanting to see the chevy blazer ev did 6.6 000 in q2 up from 600 in quarter one the hummer ev actually sold 2.9 000 up from 1.7 000 in quarter one so for gm in quarter two the leerick the blazer and the hummer were the only evs over 2,500 for the quarter all of the rest were below 2,500 which includes vehicles like the silverado the bolt and the equinox
some quick thoughts on tesla stock because i know there's a lot of hype right now out there and it's totally understandable tesla stock is now up about 65% in just over two months that's certainly worth celebrating if you had the proper positions on but i just wanted to point out tesla's forward pe now sits at 96 based on expected 2024 earnings of 2.42 this reading of 96 for tesla's forward pe would be the highest in the past two years now we never make any decisions based on one metric alone but what i wanted to say is that at some point tesla is going to have to start earning its way into its valuation but it's very true and we've seen it before both on the upside and the downside the market can remain detached from the fundamentals longer than one would like to admit at the end of the adam jones note he said as aye acceleration spurs a multi-generational increase in energy demand electricity generation and data center investment we believe investors will begin to pay more attention to tesla energy little more than two weeks ago our clients were preparing for shareholders to reject elon's comp plan potentially setting up a change of management and strategy compounding many months of negative news flow fast forward to today and clients are beginning to ask us about positive catalysts into second quarter results and beyond we're getting asked for our proprietary tesla energy model and even our humanoid robot addressable market model is this the same tesla from early june we know there are times with tesla stock where it seems like nothing is happening for the longest of times but don't ever forget that then things can happen very quickly
and in an attempt to keep us grounded if you look at tesla stock historically after the crash we saw last summer tesla stock has a run up and a pullback then a run up followed by a pullback and right now we're in the midst of a run up which eventually will most likely be followed by a pullback but tesla could absolutely have more room to run and if sometime during the month of july it can actually push into the two sixties and break out of this wedge then things could definitely get interesting and by that i mean three hundred would be squarely on the table now as always i hesitate to even get into this on the surface level because none of this is financial advice but i think it's fun to make predictions and over time i think it's a great way to sharpen your skills and try to continue learning just know there's plenty more where this comes from and i'll just say coming soon tm tesla has now extended the free fsd transfer one extra month now it's going to expire september thirtieth my upload schedule for the rest of the week is in flux sometimes around the fourth of july the news is incredibly slow so i'd recommend signing up for the electrified newsletter linked below it's free if i had to guess i would say wednesday newsletter thursday no upload and then friday upload but we'll see
tesla stock closed the day at $231.26 up 10.2 while the nazdak was up 0.84 it was the highest volume day we've had in a long time potentially all year trading 123 million shares above the average volume the past 30 days tesla's market cap now sits at 737 billion i hope you guys have a wonderful day please like the video if you did you can find me on x-linked below and a huge thank you to all of my patreon supporters