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- 0:00Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Tesla second quarter
- 0:022023 Q&A webcast. My name is Martin Vieca, VP of
- 0:05Investor Relations, and I'm joined today by Elon Musk,
- 0:08Zachary Kirkhorn and a number of other executives.
- 0:11Our Q2 results were announced at about 3:00 PM Central Time in
- 0:14the update deck we published at the same link as this webcast.
- 0:18During this call, we will discuss our business outlook and
- 0:20make forwardlooking statements. These comments are based on our
- 0:23predictions and expectations as of today.
- 0:26Actual events or results could differ materially due to a
- 0:28number of recent uncertainties including those mentioned in our
- 0:31most recent filings with the SEC.
- 0:34During the question and answer portion of today's call, please
- 0:37limit yourself to one question and one follow up.
- 0:40Please use the raise hand button to join the question queue.
- 0:43But before we jump into the Q&A, Elon has some opening remarks.
- 0:47Elon. Thank you, Martin.
- 0:49So just a Q2 recap. In Q2, we achieved record
- 0:53vehicle production and deliveries and record revenue of
- 0:55about $25 billion in a single quarter.
- 0:58And Model Y became the best selling vehicle of any kind
- 1:01globally in Q1, surpassing the lights of likes of Corolla and
- 1:06Golf. So it was the number one vehicle
- 1:08of any kind, including vehicles that are at a seller far lower
- 1:12price. This is I think an incredible
- 1:15achievement by the Tesla team and just a huge thank you to our
- 1:19customers for their support. So and this came in spite of
- 1:24high interest rates and a lot of macro uncertainty and
- 1:29nonetheless we managed to achieve operating margin of
- 1:32about 10%. We continue to target 1.8
- 1:38million vehicle deliveries this year, although we expect that Q3
- 1:44production will be a little bit down because we've got summer
- 1:47shutdowns to for. A lot of factory upgrades, so
- 1:53just probably a slight decrease in production Q3 for sort of
- 1:58global factory upgrades in the long term autonomy, we think
- 2:05it's gonna just drive volume through the ceiling next level
- 2:11and our future Robotaxi products, dedicated Robotaxi
- 2:17products. We think have like quasi
- 2:21infinite demand so and we're the way we're gonna manufacture the
- 2:31robot taxi is is also itself a revolution and so it's
- 2:35revolutionary design made in a revolutionary way.
- 2:40It'll be by by far the highest units per hour of of any vehicle
- 2:46production ever so. Very, very excited about that.
- 2:52With respect to Autopilot and Dojo, in order to build
- 2:55autonomy, we also need to train our neural net with the data
- 2:59from millions of vehicles. With the more, I mean this has
- 3:03been proven over and over again, the more training data you have,
- 3:05the better the results. And I mean there's times where
- 3:10we see basically in a neural net, basically it's sort of at a
- 3:17million training examples. It barely works at 2,000,000.
- 3:21It's it slightly works at 3,000,000 it's like wow, OK
- 3:25we're seeing something but then you get like 10 million training
- 3:27examples. It's it's like it becomes
- 3:29incredible. So you just there's just there's
- 3:33just no substitute for massive amount of data and obviously
- 3:37Tesla has more vehicles on the road that are collecting this
- 3:43data than all of the companies combined by I think maybe even
- 3:47an order of magnitude. So I think we might we might
- 3:50have 90% of all or a very big number.
- 3:55So you know the success in AI and dev is is a function of
- 4:01talent sort of unique data and computer resources and and we
- 4:13have outstanding capabilities in all three arenas.
- 4:20And I really just don't know how anyone could do what we're doing
- 4:23even if they had our software and had our computer if they did
- 4:26not have the the the training data.
- 4:28So Speaking of which, our training computer is designed to
- 4:33significantly reduce the cost of neural net training.
- 4:37It it is designed to it's it's it's so optimized for the kind
- 4:41of training that we need which is a video training so.
- 4:46You know would we just see that that the need for neural net
- 4:51training being a quasi things is is just enormous.
- 4:58So I think having having we we we we expect to use both NVIDIA
- 5:03and Dojo to be clear. But there's there's we just see
- 5:09demand for really fast training resources.
- 5:16And we, we think we may reach in house your net, your net
- 5:20training capability of 100 exaflops by the end of next
- 5:24year. So to today over 300,000,000
- 5:30miles have been driven using FSD beta.
- 5:33That 300,000,000 mile number is gonna seem very small very
- 5:37quickly. It'll soon be billions of miles,
- 5:42then 10s of billions of miles. And that FSD will will go from
- 5:47being better, from being as good as a human to them being vastly
- 5:51better than a human. We see a clear path to full self
- 5:55driving being 10 times safer than the average human driver.
- 6:01So and between autopilot Georgia computer, our inference hardware
- 6:11in the car which we calls. Sort of hardware 3-4, you know,
- 6:16but it's really dedicated, it's it's, it's a high efficiency in
- 6:19front of computer that's in the car.
- 6:20And our optimist robot translates clearly at the
- 6:24cutting edge of a ad development to with we continue to build
- 6:32release candidates of the cyber truck on our final production
- 6:35line in Austin. I'm actually here in Austin at
- 6:37the Giga factory, this is the first truck that we're aware of
- 6:42that will have 4 door. Was over 6 foot bed and 1 foot
- 6:46into a 20 foot garage. So it's it's a it's a biggest on
- 6:50the outside but it's even bigger on the inside.
- 6:52So it's a I think that's one of the one of the elements of good
- 6:56design is it should feel bigger on the inside than it looks on
- 7:00the outside. And and this is this is no small
- 7:02car but we we we really cared about the exterior dimensions of
- 7:07the side truck down to the last millimeter.
- 7:10So it's just we try to get right in the middle of the Goldilocks
- 7:13zone, not too big, not too small and and then really maximize the
- 7:19utility of the volume and we can't wait to start delivering
- 7:24it later this year. Some some other highlights, our
- 7:28global supercharging network now stands at over 50,000, roughly
- 7:3350,000 connectors and over 5000 locations as I think a lot of
- 7:37people are aware. The Tesla starting the the Tesla
- 7:43charging standard which we made open source and it's now called
- 7:47the North American charging standard.
- 7:49We're we're deeply honored that Ford, GM, Mercedes and many
- 7:53other O M's have signed up to use our connector and gain
- 8:00access to our charging network. Yeah we we we strongly believe
- 8:06in helping. Other car companies to
- 8:12accelerate the EV revolution and just trying to do the right
- 8:16thing in general. So that's a goal there.
- 8:24Then it's only I think I want to emphasize like very, very
- 8:29strongly. This is a very important point
- 8:32is that tells that just as with the.
- 8:38North American charging standard, although we're not
- 8:39licensed in that case not licensing, we're just making it
- 8:42available, but but we are very open to licensing our full self
- 8:47driving software and hardware to other car companies and we are
- 8:51already in discussions with early discussions with a major
- 8:56OEM about using the Tesla FSD. So we're not trying to keep this
- 9:03to ourselves, we're more than happy to to license it to
- 9:06others. And lastly, our new lithium
- 9:10refinery and catheter facility are progressing well.
- 9:15Then in conclusion, we continue to focus on making as many
- 9:18causes as we can while maintaining healthy financials.
- 9:22Our artificial intelligence development is obviously
- 9:25entering a new era and we're incredibly excited about what's
- 9:30to come. Our other businesses such as
- 9:32Megapack supercharging service. And what not all started to
- 9:36become a meaningful contributor to overall profitability this
- 9:40quarter. And then lastly, I'd just like
- 9:43to profusely thank all of our employees who are making a lot
- 9:49of extra effort during uncertain times.
- 9:51Thank you very much for your hard work and impact you're
- 9:53making. Thank you very much, Elon.
- 9:56And I think Zach gets some opening remarks as well.
- 9:59Yeah. Thanks, Martin.
- 10:01As Elon mentioned, Q2 was another record quarter of
- 10:04production and deliveries, as well as records and profit for
- 10:07energy and services and other businesses.
- 10:09Congratulations again to the Tesla team on the continued
- 10:12progress as we navigate through a period of economic
- 10:16uncertainty, rising interest rates, volatility and consumer
- 10:19confidence and regulatory change.
- 10:21I want to comment on our financial approach.
- 10:24First, the single most important priority is to ensure we are
- 10:27continuing to invest heavily in the core technologies that will
- 10:30drive the long term value of the business.
- 10:33This include increasing spending on a I related technologies such
- 10:36as full self driving Optimus and Dojo as well as new products
- 10:40such as Cybertruck, our next generation platform in the semi
- 10:44as evidenced by the continued growth in our R&D spend.
- 10:47This also includes continuing our investments in capacity
- 10:50expansion. Not only in our vehicle
- 10:52factories, but also our supercharging network, service
- 10:55internal applications and battery processes as we continue
- 10:59with meaningful capital expenditures to lay this
- 11:01foundation for the future. 2nd, we continue to work towards our
- 11:04goals of maximizing volumes on both our vehicle and energy
- 11:08business, but most importantly doing so in a way that generates
- 11:12the capital to continue our pace of R&D and capital investments.
- 11:16This requires a strong focus on per unit COGS reductions in each
- 11:19of our key businesses. As well as working capital
- 11:22improvements on raw materials, working process inventory and
- 11:26customer AR, all of which progressed appropriately in Q2.
- 11:30If we look specifically at our automotive business, our gross
- 11:33margin showed a modest reduction and remain healthy despite
- 11:37action taken to further improve vehicle affordability.
- 11:40Early in the quarter, we recognize we realize per unit
- 11:44cost improvements in nearly every category including
- 11:46material costs and commodities, manufacturing costs and
- 11:50logistics. While also continuing to rapidly
- 11:52increase the build rate in our Austin and Berlin factories.
- 11:56For our energy business, we improved margins and gross
- 11:58profit driven by cost reductions in deal economics, particularly
- 12:01with Megapack. As a reminder, storage volumes
- 12:05are typically volatile sequentially based on the types
- 12:07of projects and their specific revenue recognition milestones.
- 12:12As we look forward to the rest of the year, I want to reiterate
- 12:14Elon's comments on Q3 volumes driven by plan down times for
- 12:18factory upgrades. These upgrades will also carry
- 12:21some amount of factory at all cost.
- 12:23How however, we are working to minimize as much as possible.
- 12:26It's also important to keep in mind the uncertainty in the
- 12:28macro environment which can impact our execution positively
- 12:32or negatively in the near term. Regardless, we continue to
- 12:35remain dynamic with a focus on fundamental efficiency and a
- 12:39long term outlook. Congratulations again to
- 12:42everybody on a great quarter. Thank you very much, Zach, and
- 12:46let's go to investor questions. The first, the first question on
- 12:48licensing FSD, we've already answered.
- 12:50So let's go to the second one. The second question is what is
- 12:53the status of 4680 cells? How far are you from the specs
- 12:58you laid out on Battery Day? When do you expect to achieve
- 13:01what you laid out on Battery Day?
- 13:05Yeah. First, I'll just start with a
- 13:06little bit of a production update.
- 13:08So in Texas 4680, cell production increased 80% Q2 over
- 13:13Q1. And the team surpassed 10
- 13:15million production cells produced here in Texas, so
- 13:17Congrats to the team for that. Their focus on yield reduced our
- 13:21scrap bill by 40% quarter over quarter and that resulted in a
- 13:2525% reduction in cell COGS. Here in Texas, we're preparing
- 13:30to launch our cyber truck cell, which is 10% higher energy
- 13:32density than current production. That was accomplished through
- 13:35process and mechanical design optimization as we scale cyber
- 13:39cell production through the end of.
- 13:41The year and early next, we should be in a comfortable place
- 13:44on cost per cell against our battery energy density targets.
- 13:49The cyber cell is at our expectations on a like for like
- 13:52electrochemistry basis. We're yet to integrate silicon
- 13:56or in house cathode production, both reviewed on battery day,
- 13:59which do bring significant further energy density and cost
- 14:01improvements, but that is a topic for another day.
- 14:05Lastly, it is important to remember that most of what we
- 14:07focused on a battery day was the Tesla engineered 4680 production
- 14:11system and the improvements we strove to achieve on equipment
- 14:14factory density, capital cost and utility cost reduction, all
- 14:18of which we are realizing in our Texas scale up to date.
- 14:22Thank you very much. The next question is, can you
- 14:26talk more to the upcoming Tesla Energy products and how you're
- 14:30thinking has evolved on the revenue model?
- 14:32Given Tesla's AI capabilities, how do you see the long term mix
- 14:36between hardware margin and recurring softer margin from
- 14:39auto bidder as the segment accelerates?
- 14:44We can't comment on future product road map, but I can
- 14:46provide a quick energy Q2 update.
- 14:49Megapack continues to show strong demand globally with
- 14:52Lathrop ramping successfully to meet our contracted projects in
- 14:552023. As stated last quarter, Megapack
- 14:58margins are in a reasonable place in line with our target
- 15:01market vehicle target margins. The second final assembly line
- 15:05at Lathrop is progressing on schedule, eventually doubling
- 15:08Lathrop capacity ahead of our full factory ramp in 2024.
- 15:11We have several exciting large projects in construction or
- 15:14nearing completion, including the KES project in Hawaii, the
- 15:18River Rena project in Australia, several projects in California
- 15:20and one here at Gigafactory, Texas toward today actually.
- 15:24We want to thank our customers, utilities and grid operators for
- 15:27trusting us with these projects. On the auto bidder question, we
- 15:30continue to grow auto bidder contracts in wholesale markets
- 15:33like Australia, Texas, UK and California with over 6 kwatt
- 15:36hours under Tesla's dispatch next year in the UK, Our project
- 15:40performed best in the industry in Q2.
- 15:43Auto bidder does have software margins and is an enabler for
- 15:46hardware sales, but it's a relatively small contributor to
- 15:49revenues given how much deployment growth on the
- 15:51Megapack hardware side is occurring.
- 15:53It's important to remember that these large projects, these
- 15:56large capital projects have lifetimes of 20 years of
- 15:58recurring revenues on an analyzed basis relative to
- 16:00upfront CapEx are small. On the residential side, we have
- 16:04some fun things happening. We recently surpassed a half
- 16:07million power walls installed. Just this week we were launching
- 16:10charge on solar, which allows test the power wall and vehicle
- 16:13customers to charge their vehicles using their excess
- 16:15solar and drive only on the sunshine that hits their roof.
- 16:19Yesterday we began paying customers in Texas for
- 16:21participating in our virtual power plant to provide grid
- 16:23support to ERCOT. We expect these credits to lower
- 16:26our median customers annual bill by a third and to increase these
- 16:30credits over time as ERCOT expands market access.
- 16:33And today we are expanding Tesla electric enrollment to new Model
- 16:353 owners in Texas, fall by all Texas vehicle customers over the
- 16:38rest of the quarter unfortunately and somewhat
- 16:41similar to Tesla insurance. Bringing Tesla Electric and VPP
- 16:45capabilities to our customers requires working through a
- 16:47fractured regulatory environment on a jurisdiction by
- 16:50jurisdiction basis. In the long run, the value of
- 16:53residential energy software and hardware will be driven by the
- 16:56level of market access that utilities, market operators and
- 16:59regulators permit. For power walls eligible to
- 17:02provide the full stack of energy services like peaker, peaker
- 17:05capacity and system buffering such as in Australia, we can
- 17:08more than double the value of ownership relative to a typical
- 17:10system today. Thank you very much.
- 17:14The next question is, could you quantify the benefits to COGS
- 17:18per unit from the IRA battery manufacturing incentives?
- 17:22And secondly, battery raw material declines year to date?
- 17:27All right. I can take that.
- 17:30On the first part of the question for IRA manufacturing
- 17:33incentives, we provided previous guidance that we expect these to
- 17:37be. For the course of this year in
- 17:39the range of 150 million to 250 million per quarter, we are
- 17:45staying within that boundary as we got it previously.
- 17:47So that was the case in Q2 as well.
- 17:50I will note, I think we've mentioned this before that this
- 17:54includes a 5050 sharing of credits for qualified sales from
- 17:59our long term battery partner Panasonic on the commodity side.
- 18:05We are continuing to see improvements there.
- 18:07As we've discussed previously, Lithium is the most notable
- 18:10improvement so far. I think I commented on this on
- 18:14the last call because typically we see this coming about 1/4
- 18:18before it actually is realized in our financials.
- 18:21And also just as a reminder, we're not fully exposed to the
- 18:24price of Lithium. Our supply chain team has done a
- 18:27terrific job in partnership with another bunch of other companies
- 18:30to put in place. Some long term agreements here,
- 18:34but we do have some exposure that moves up and down.
- 18:38We're also seeing benefits in aluminum and steel which I think
- 18:41is great but not as large as the lithium impacts, but they
- 18:46contribute nonetheless. So if we add up the total impact
- 18:49of this in Q2 relative to prior quarter, it's about the same
- 18:53size and magnitude as the IRA benefits that we also received,
- 18:58you know just to put this in context.
- 19:01As you look at COGS per unit sequentially from Q1 to Q2, I
- 19:05think there's there's two things to keep in mind there.
- 19:08The 1st is that our SX mix and for deliveries increased quite a
- 19:12bit from Q1 to Q2. So as you think about
- 19:15fundamental cost reductions, it's important to adjust for
- 19:19that. And then secondly, you know as
- 19:22we continue to work on reducing our Austin and Berlin costs
- 19:25which we did quite a bit of that from Q1 to Q2.
- 19:29These factories are still a slightly above Model Y
- 19:32production costs elsewhere and in the quarter, our mix of
- 19:36Austin and Berlin related builds increased.
- 19:39And so that's something to consider as you model out the
- 19:43impact on from Q1 to Q2 in terms of COGS per unit.
- 19:47I do want to ask Karen if there's anything else on the
- 19:49commodity side or just more generally you want to add here.
- 19:53Yeah, As you mentioned Zach, we we've naturally been a little
- 19:56bit hedged from the lithium position because the the long
- 19:58term contracts we have in place. But we have seen reduction in
- 20:01pricing across the board for all commodities that specifically go
- 20:05into batteries such as nickel, cobalt and graphite.
- 20:09And the reductions and pricing translate into thousands of
- 20:11dollars. When you look at it from a
- 20:13purvedaical impact. We're taking advantage of the
- 20:17look historically low commodity pricing in certain areas to kind
- 20:20of extend some of those fixed price contracts.
- 20:23Through the end of the decade. So it's a playbook that will
- 20:25continue to kind of go back to as we look to the future.
- 20:30Thank you. And the next question on FSD.
- 20:33Have you considered allowing FSD transferability as a lever to
- 20:37allow existing customers to upgrade to a new Tesla instead
- 20:40of being locked into an existing car due to the price of FSD?
- 20:45Yeah, this is a question we get asked a lot.
- 20:49So we're excited to announce that for Q3 we will be allowing
- 20:54transfer of FSD. This is a one time amnesty.
- 21:00So it needs to be you need to take advantage of it in Q3, but
- 21:06or at least place the order in Q3 with within with within
- 21:08reasonable delivery time frames. So yeah, yeah.
- 21:15Yeah, I hope this makes people happy this one time thing.
- 21:23Right. The next question, when will,
- 21:25when will we give more information about the cyber
- 21:28truck orders, estimated delivery schedules, pricing and
- 21:31specifications? The demand is so is so far off
- 21:37the hook, you can't even see the hook.
- 21:39So that's really not an issue. I do want to emphasize that the
- 21:43cyber truck. Has a lot of new technology in
- 21:46it like a lie, it doesn't look like, it doesn't look like you
- 21:52know any other vehicle because it is not like any other
- 21:54vehicle. So and the production ramp will
- 21:58move as fast as the slowest and least like the elements of the
- 22:02of the entire supply chain and an internal production.
- 22:07So you know, I wouldn't expect you know it.
- 22:13I I hope it's smooth. You know we're certainly better
- 22:15at production ramps than than you know we've got a lot of
- 22:19experience with production ramps.
- 22:20But you know first order to 1st order approximation is there's
- 22:24like 10,000 unique parts and processes in in a you know in
- 22:30the Cybertruck and if any one of it'll go as fast as the least
- 22:34lucky, you know least well executed element of the 10,000
- 22:38so. Always very difficult to predict
- 22:41the ramp initially, but I think we'll be making them in high
- 22:45volume next year and we will be delivering the car this year.
- 22:52Thank you. The next question is critics of
- 22:55Giga casting contended that process makes vehicles harder
- 22:58and more costly to repair, essentially pushing costs onto
- 23:01the customer. You share some details about the
- 23:04initial repair experience with Giga cast vehicles.
- 23:06That must be why everyone's copying us.
- 23:10Yeah, thanks you. On.
- 23:11This is Lars and Martin. That that's like, simply not
- 23:14true. There's a misconception that
- 23:16traditional bodies are easy to repair, but they're made of
- 23:19multiple materials and multiple joining methods.
- 23:21Spot welds and rivets have to be drilled out.
- 23:23Panels and structural adhesive have to be chiseled out, dry
- 23:26adhesive has to be removed, stampings cut, blah, blah, blah.
- 23:29It's a crazy patchwork quilt. Yeah.
- 23:31And so putting that back together means time and money.
- 23:33Using an example of replacing a rear cast rail on a Model Y.
- 23:38To do that versus like what we replaced it with from the Model
- 23:413, it's 1010 times cheaper and three times faster to do it with
- 23:44the cash rail. My design team works with our
- 23:47collision repair team since we're closed loop on this with
- 23:50insurance and we design specific parts that are make it easier
- 23:53and faster to repair, we have an incentive to do that because we
- 23:56have our own insurance and our own body shops.
- 24:00We expect that we'll continue to do this and collision repair
- 24:03will continue to become cheaper and faster over time.
- 24:05And we already made this available to all body shops or
- 24:07our tests are approved Body Shop training.
- 24:10Yeah, closing loop on collision repair and factoring that into
- 24:13design is is a big deal. It's crucial.
- 24:15I don't think anyone else can do it with that ecosystem that we
- 24:18have. So, yeah and and we are actually
- 24:20able to change the details of the casting with inserts and we
- 24:24actually do do that all the time.
- 24:26So because the the answer is actually wear out and.
- 24:29Need to be replaced anyway, so we can actually make design
- 24:32changes to the inserts and tweak the castings, but the the cast
- 24:36basically cast the rear rear body or front body is lighter,
- 24:40cheaper, better for noise, vibration, harshness, much
- 24:44easier to manufacture and it's better in every way.
- 24:49And that's why so many other car companies are copying us,
- 24:52because probably they don't know.
- 24:55They certainly put out a lot of fresh releases about it.
- 24:59I think it's basically going to be how old cars are made in the
- 25:02future. Thank you.
- 25:06Next question, how many optimist bots have been made and when
- 25:10will they be able to start performing useful tasks?
- 25:1210 million, yeah. I think.
- 25:21I think we're around 5:00 or 6 bots like, you know, there's an
- 25:26we're. Like 10 I guess yeah it depends
- 25:29on what how many are working and what phase.
- 25:32But it's it's sort of yeah, like there's there's more more every
- 25:40month the there's a lot of interesting things a lot of
- 25:47interesting things about the option spot.
- 25:51We found that there are actually no suppliers that can produce
- 25:54the actuators. There are no off the shelf
- 25:58actuators that work well for Human Aid Robot at any price.
- 26:02Certainly not compelling. Yes, not a not a human robot
- 26:07that can do something that, you know, the things that human
- 26:10could do. So we've actually had to design
- 26:14our own actuators that integrate the motor of the power
- 26:18electronics, the controller. The sensors and really everyone
- 26:27of them is custom design. So and then of course we'll be
- 26:34using the same inference hardware as the car.
- 26:40So you know and we are in designing these actuators,
- 26:46designing them for volume production.
- 26:48So they're not just lighter, tighter, more and more capable
- 26:52any any other actuators that that we're aware of that exists
- 26:55in the world. There's also actually
- 26:58manufacturable. So we we should be able to make
- 27:01them in volume. The the first optimist that is
- 27:07that will have all of the test that designed actuators sort of
- 27:11production candidate actuators integrated and and walking
- 27:16should be. Around November ish so and then
- 27:22we'll we'll we'll start wrapping up after that you know in terms
- 27:29of when we'll be able to do some useful things like we'll first
- 27:34be trying this out in our own factories and just proving out
- 27:37its utility. But I I think I think we'll be
- 27:40able to have it do something useful in our factories sometime
- 27:44next year I I would be. Yeah, I'm pretty, pretty
- 27:49confident of that. So yeah, and it's going well, I
- 27:58should say. Another cool thing about
- 28:00optimists is that, you know, there's just in the US alone,
- 28:03there are two million amputees. And I was just talking to the
- 28:09neural link team and by combining A neural link implant.
- 28:15And a robotic armor leg. For someone that has has had
- 28:20their arms, armor leg or all arms and legs amputated, we
- 28:25believe we can give you basically a cyber body that is
- 28:30incredibly capable $6 million man in real life before.
- 28:38Don't worry it cost $6,000,000 sixty $1000 man.
- 28:45Since I was impressive but it's it'll actually you know so that
- 28:49that that actually could be a really I think would be
- 28:52incredible to you know potentially help police people
- 28:55around the world and and give them you know Obama like that is
- 29:03as good maybe a long term better than a biological 1.
- 29:08Thank you. The next question is how has the
- 29:11order intake trended relatively to production levels during Q2
- 29:15and how is it trended in the quarter to date period?
- 29:18Conceptually, how does this decide when is it appropriate to
- 29:21reduce prices or add other sales incentives to increase demand?
- 29:28Yeah. I guess demand is roughly track
- 29:29production. So which is what we aim for is
- 29:35is. But we look at you know
- 29:37something that that we have that really I think no other car
- 29:40maker has is that we have real time demand and real time
- 29:44production like so seven days a week you know I get an e-mail
- 29:51order generated e-mail that shows output from all factories
- 29:55and orders globally. So it's like a real time thing
- 29:59on the pulse of earth basically and and we would you know.
- 30:06We're just we're just course according to what the mood of
- 30:09the of the public is. You know buying a new car is a
- 30:14is a big decision for vast majority of people.
- 30:17So you know anytime there's economic uncertainty people
- 30:21generally pause on your car buying at least to see to see
- 30:25what happens and you know and then obviously another challenge
- 30:30is the the interest rate environment as interest rates
- 30:34rise. The affordability of anything
- 30:37bought with debt decreases, so effectively increasing the price
- 30:42of the car. So when interest rates rise
- 30:45dramatically, we actually have to reduce the price of the car
- 30:48because the the, the interest payments increase the price of
- 30:52the car. So and and this is at least at
- 30:57least up until recently it was the, I believe the sharpest
- 31:00interest rate rise in history. So we had to do something about
- 31:04that. And if somebody's got a crystal
- 31:08ball for the global economy, I really appreciate it.
- 31:11If I got borrow that crystal ball.
- 31:14Yeah, exactly. Damn.
- 31:15Yeah, it should be. Not on Twitter.
- 31:19So, I mean, one day it seems like the world economy is
- 31:24falling apart and the next day everything's fine.
- 31:27I I don't know what the hell is going on.
- 31:30It'd be totally frank. I wish I did.
- 31:34So I I mean that that's why that's why I say like I always
- 31:38you know you know I on Twitter I posted like you know just really
- 31:42advising because I, you know I care a lot about the the the the
- 31:47sort of the small shareholders especially ones that have stuck,
- 31:51stuck with us through through thick and thin.
- 31:53I love you guys and so the. We we can't control these macro
- 32:00shocks you know or the the manic depressive nature of the stock
- 32:04market. So that's why I I recommend
- 32:06against margin loans in times that are turbulent.
- 32:10You know if times are not that turbulent actually a margin loan
- 32:13can be a smart move within reason but but we're in I would
- 32:18call it turbulent times. I like I have very high
- 32:23confidence, confidence in the long term value of Tesla.
- 32:28Like I I see it really, you know, see a path to a 10X these
- 32:33days, like 5X increase in the value of the company, maybe a
- 32:4010X and where things go along the way that the trials and
- 32:47tribulations and the mood of the mood of the markets 1 cannot
- 32:51predict. And so you know.
- 32:57The the, the old adage of buy and hold is is right.
- 33:01You know, for investment advice I say like identify companies
- 33:07products you love See if they you know does it seem like
- 33:12they'll continue to make good products or great products.
- 33:16Buy that stock and hold it, that's it.
- 33:19But you will win. The reason companies exist is to
- 33:25make. Goods and services, ideally
- 33:27great goods and services, they don't exist for any other
- 33:31reason. They shouldn't.
- 33:33So that's why I should buy a software company that makes me
- 33:36likeson has a great future pipeline.
- 33:38It's common sense actually And and then and then generally if
- 33:46you see if if you provided, you're confident about what that
- 33:50company's products or services are when the market panics.
- 33:56Buy and when the market is, you know, overly exuberant, you can
- 34:01sell. I'm not recommending yourself as
- 34:02a bit, but yeah, I love sell high.
- 34:15You know, Warren Buffett actually I think has saying I'm
- 34:17paraphrasing him. But, you know, publicly traded
- 34:20companies like it's like imagine you're living in your house and
- 34:24some. A crazy manic depressive guy
- 34:27comes and stands at the outside your house and yells property
- 34:31prices at you. You know, and it's a different
- 34:35price every day. The house is still the same
- 34:38house, so this is the stock market, you know, Credit that
- 34:45door about it. Thank you.
- 34:48Let's go to the next question. With the emphasis of price cuts
- 34:51to drive volume growth eating into automotive gross margin,
- 34:54can investors expect to see automotive gross margin
- 34:57stabilize or even rise due to efficiencies outpacing the cuts?
- 35:01And if so, when? Where's that crystal ball again
- 35:10if if, I mean it's like look the, the, the short term
- 35:15variances in in. Gross margin and profitability
- 35:20really are minor relative to the long term picture.
- 35:24Autonomy will make all of these numbers look silly.
- 35:30I'd recommend looking at Arc Invest.
- 35:31I think their analysis is very good.
- 35:34It's the best you know I mean and generally fin Twit or like
- 35:42if the finance. There's the smart fans, people
- 35:45on Twitter follow their accounts.
- 35:47They're great. So that that's what that that's
- 35:55that's in my view where you'll get the best, best info.
- 35:59So you know, I strongly believe Tesla is epic long term
- 36:04investment and don't swear when you know things go up and down.
- 36:09In fact, if the market panics, buy.
- 36:13If the market's a little too exuberant sell at the time but
- 36:16but just generally like like I feel I I confident you know we
- 36:21we will deliver a long term but can't control short term so and
- 36:24and these the the autonomy is is really where it's at exactly.
- 36:30I fully agree with you. I mean, I think the only thing
- 36:34in the short term that matters is, is what I said in my opening
- 36:39remarks. Which is, you know, are
- 36:41regenerating enough money to continue to invest and you know,
- 36:44the portfolio of products and technologies that the technical
- 36:48teams are investing in right now.
- 36:52This is intense. It's intense in terms of
- 36:55investment. It's intense in terms of
- 36:57potential. Frankly, I think it's ridiculous
- 36:59that we have positive free cash flow in a capital intensive
- 37:03business while investing massive amounts of money in new
- 37:07technology. That is super hard.
- 37:10And vertical integration, it's not even just like new products,
- 37:12but also. Yeah, we actually make our shit,
- 37:19yeah. And so.
- 37:20Others but. And so, at least from my
- 37:29perspective, what matters is continuing to generate the cash
- 37:32to invest. You know that means continuing
- 37:36to be hyper focused on near term cost reduction because
- 37:40everything we do in near term cost reduction provides capital
- 37:43to reinvest, hyper focused on working Capital Management of
- 37:48which we've made quite a bit of progress there.
- 37:52On the raw materials and whip side of that, we've been very
- 37:56focused on accounts receivables as well to ensure that we can
- 38:00continue to reinvest, reinvest the cash.
- 38:04You know that this is what we're focused on.
- 38:06Yeah. And you know, so there's you
- 38:08know a set of this that we control.
- 38:11You know, we have a pipeline of cost reductions.
- 38:14We are getting tailwinds in the commodity space right now.
- 38:16As Karen mentioned, that's helpful variability around
- 38:21average selling prices. You know, goes back to Elon's
- 38:23point, we don't control interest rates, We don't control macro
- 38:28consumer sentiment. But we have an obligation to be
- 38:32responsive to that to ensure that we're matching supply and
- 38:36demand and keeping things balanced.
- 38:38And so this is how we're managing the next handful of
- 38:40quarters. You know soon enough these
- 38:44quarters will be behind us. They won't be part of the
- 38:48present value of future cash flows of the business.
- 38:51And so we want to make sure we keep that view and make sure
- 38:54that the long term of the business is exactly the way that
- 38:57we want it to be. Alright, thank you very much.
- 39:02And now let's go to analyst questions.
- 39:06The first question comes from Dan Levi from Barclays.
- 39:09Then feel free to unmute yourself.
- 39:14Great. Good evening.
- 39:17Thank you. Wanted to start first with the
- 39:21with a question about your efforts in AI and Dojo.
- 39:24It's pretty clear, it sounds like you're accelerating your
- 39:26focus. Can you maybe provide us with a
- 39:30sense of what the process is of refining a product, Is it more
- 39:34machines and and maybe you could give us a sense of you know when
- 39:38the the payout starts to when you start to see the payout and
- 39:42what the resource outlay is. You know what should we expect
- 39:45on the OpEx front as a result of this?
- 39:50Sorry, are you saying how much are we gonna spend on Georgia
- 39:52or? Yeah, it.
- 39:54Warranty of Georgia. Yes.
- 39:58Well, we're not going to be open loop on our Dojo expenditures.
- 40:01So but I mean I think we, we will be spending you know the
- 40:07north of a billion over the next year on on through the end of
- 40:11next year, it's well over a billion dollars in Dojo.
- 40:15And yeah, so I mean we've got a truly staggering amount of of
- 40:22video data. To do training on and this is
- 40:25another thing I don't like into in order to copy us you you also
- 40:28need to spend billions of dollars on on training compute.
- 40:32I mean it's like and it's it's also hard to you know you need
- 40:37the data you need the training computer it's like think think
- 40:40all things needed to actually achieve this at scale toward a
- 40:43generalized solution for autonomy is it's this is this is
- 40:46one of the hottest problems ever.
- 40:49You know you see a lot of AI companies doing you know Llms
- 40:52and and and and whatnot and I'm saying if they're they're so
- 40:55great why can't they make yourself a great driving car
- 40:59because it's harder that's why. So but I do think that's that's
- 41:07I think there's some you know great great AI companies out
- 41:09there but but but just fundamentally the the the
- 41:15staggering amount of data we've got to process recovery process
- 41:17somehow. And custom silicon is the best
- 41:21way to do that. So that that's what Dojo is is
- 41:26designed to do is is yeah optimized for for video training
- 41:33it's it's not optimized for LMS it's optimized for video
- 41:36training. With the with with video
- 41:40training you have a a much higher ratio of compute to
- 41:45memory bandwidth so. This you know whereas LMS tend
- 41:51to be memory bandwidth choked. So that's that's it I mean but
- 41:58like so we're also we have some we're using a lot of NVIDIA
- 42:03hardware and continue to you know we'll actually take NVIDIA
- 42:08hardware as fast as NVIDIA will deliver it to us.
- 42:11Tremendous respect for Jensen and NVIDIA they've done an
- 42:16incredible job. And and frankly, I don't know if
- 42:23they could deliver us enough GPUs, we we we might not need
- 42:27your Dojo, but they can't. So they got so many customers,
- 42:33they've been kind enough to you know nonetheless prioritize some
- 42:37about our GPU orders, but. Yeah, the, the, the sheer
- 42:44magnitude of video training because like I said, we're not
- 42:47trying to just get as good as human.
- 42:49We want to get to, you know, 10 times better than human, maybe
- 42:52100 times better than human. Right now I believe there's
- 42:56something on the order of 1,000,000 automotive deaths per
- 42:58year. And and then if you say
- 43:00permanent serious injuries, I think it's probably closer to 10
- 43:04million per year. And you know, so it matters if
- 43:09you if you're, you know. Twice as good as as human 10
- 43:15times. You know like 10 times better
- 43:18than human would still mean 100,000 deaths and a million
- 43:22severe permanent injuries. So it's like OK, well we'd
- 43:25probably be 100 times better. So there's this really you know
- 43:28it's a March of 9th and and we want to achieve as perfect
- 43:34safety as possible and it's fast truly mind boggling amounts of
- 43:39video and and and computer needed for that.
- 43:42So and then I just, you know, I do think there's there's other
- 43:45applications for for Dojo but we just desperately needed for
- 43:49video training. Right.
- 43:51Just to just to add to what Ilan mentioned, so you know the
- 43:55numbers that he mentioned are you know between R&D spend and
- 43:59capital spend and you know this is moving quickly you know and
- 44:05so we provide a three-year outlook on our capital expense
- 44:09we are considering. These these expenses in that
- 44:13outlook and as that moves up and down, we'll continue to update
- 44:17our guidance in the queue. Yeah, I wanna say that the the
- 44:21the fundamental rate limiter on the progress of full self
- 44:24driving is training. But that's if if we had more
- 44:28training compute we would get it done faster.
- 44:32So that's it, that's it. And and it's just difficult to
- 44:36predict how quickly, yeah, we can execute on it.
- 44:40Great, thank you. Just as as a follow up, I
- 44:45recognize you know there there's incredible macro uncertainty
- 44:49right now, but you're sticking with your near term your volume
- 44:53target 50% kegger. As we just think about sort of
- 44:57in the in the year ahead, you know cyber truck is going to be
- 45:00some contribution. You know there's going to be
- 45:04some help from further EV penetration growth but.
- 45:07But to to what extent are you willing to sacrifice on pricing
- 45:12to keep that 50% volume cager intact or you know, are you
- 45:18thinking differently about margins versus your prior
- 45:21commentary of willing to sacrifice on margins to get more
- 45:23share? It's not like getting more fair,
- 45:27it's just that you can think of every car that we that we sell
- 45:31or produce that that that has. Full autonomy capability as
- 45:39actually something that in the future may be worth as much as
- 45:42five times what it is today because, you know, average
- 45:50passenger bickle is doing like maybe 10 hours of driving a
- 45:53week. You know, one if if it's sort of
- 45:551 if let's say it's 1 1/2 hours a day, on average that's 10
- 45:58hours a week. Ish if you've got.
- 46:04An autonomous if that that vehicle's able to operate
- 46:10autonomously and and and use be used in some either either
- 46:16dedicated autonomous or partially autonomous like like
- 46:18Airbnb. Like some maybe sometimes you
- 46:21allow your your card to be used by others sometimes you want to
- 46:24use it exclusively. Just like you know Airbnb, you
- 46:27know doing Airbnb with a room in your house.
- 46:33You know that the the, the value is just tremendous.
- 46:35So I think it's sort of it would be I I think it makes it does
- 46:40make sense to sacrifice margins in favor of making more vehicles
- 46:43because we think in the not too distant future they will have
- 46:48have a dramatic valuation increase.
- 46:50I think the Tesla fleet value increase at the point which we
- 46:54can upload full self, you know full self driving and it's
- 46:56approved by regulators. Will be the single biggest step
- 47:02Change in asset value, maybe in history?
- 47:08Thank you. Let's go to the next analyst.
- 47:10The question comes from Emmanuel Rosner from Deutsche Bank.
- 47:15Thank you very much. Two questions for me as well.
- 47:18First following up on on the autonomy, so you know before you
- 47:23start launching these dedicated Robo Taxi vehicles on, on
- 47:26existing vehicles you're. Improving FSD, you know,
- 47:29incrementally what is your latest targeted timing to
- 47:34essentially release a non beta version or an ISOF version that
- 47:38would trigger much higher take rates And would Tesla benefit
- 47:42from lowering the price of FSD? Well obviously I you know.
- 47:56As people have sort of made fun of me and perhaps the, you know,
- 48:00quite fairly have made fun of me, my predictions about
- 48:03achieving full self driving have been optimistic in the past.
- 48:11The reason they've been optimistic is what it tends to
- 48:14look like is the we'll make rapid progress with the new
- 48:18version of. Of FSD but but then it will
- 48:23curve over logarithmically so. So at first logarithmic curve
- 48:28looks like you know just sort of fairly straight upward line
- 48:32diagonal and up. And so if you extrapolate that
- 48:36it then you you have a great thing but then because it's
- 48:39actually logarithmic, it curves over and then there's been a
- 48:41series of stacked logarithmic curves now.
- 48:48I know, I don't know the the, the, the boy who cried FSD, but
- 48:53I I man, I I think I think we'll be better than human by the end
- 48:58of this year. That's not to say we're approved
- 49:04by regulators and and I'm saying that that would be in the US
- 49:10because we got to focus on one market 1st.
- 49:12But I I think we'll be better than human by the end of this
- 49:14year. I've been wrong in the past.
- 49:16I may be wrong this time and that the the price of FSD.
- 49:22So the the way thing is the price of FSD is actually very
- 49:24low. It's not high When you go back
- 49:29to what I say earlier the the the value of the car increases
- 49:32dramatically if it is actually autonomous.
- 49:37You know $15,000 is is actually a low price not a high price
- 49:43and. Now we will offer you know and
- 49:48we have, I think I think we do sort of offer FSD as a sort of
- 49:51monthly subscription although like most people don't know
- 49:54that. So I'd recommend like maybe
- 49:56trying it out as a monthly subscription so you don't have
- 49:58to go with the $15,000 thing. But I think yeah, yeah the the
- 50:07obviously if if the car is worth several times it's original
- 50:10price. $13,000 is actually a low price for FSD.
- 50:18Thank you. And the next question comes from
- 50:20William Stein from Trust. William, go ahead and unmute.
- 50:26Great. Thank you very much for taking
- 50:28my question. I'd like to ask about to stick
- 50:35on this AI topic. We've read, you know, with great
- 50:39interest the developments in Dojo today and you've spoken
- 50:43about FSD, but you've also Elon, you've started this X dot AI
- 50:49company and you know for investors that think that there
- 50:53might be quite a bit of value in the AI features and products of
- 50:58Tesla, it might be concerning to see you.
- 51:02You know, pursuing another endeavor where AI is the focus.
- 51:04So can you talk about how X dot AI might overlap, might perhaps
- 51:12compete with Tesla or in other ways Perhaps it it enhances the
- 51:16value of what Tesla does? Thanks very much.
- 51:21Yeah, I think we'll actually enhance the the value of Tesla
- 51:26there. There were just some.
- 51:30Some of the world's best AI engineers and scientists that
- 51:33were willing to join a startup, but they were not willing to
- 51:36join a large sort of relatively established company like like
- 51:40Tesla. So I was like that that's
- 51:42actually how it got started. I was interviewing a few people
- 51:44and they're like, no, we we want to do a startup.
- 51:46I was like, and that's all I I couldn't, I couldn't convince
- 51:49them to join Tesla. So, So I was like, OK, well, you
- 51:55know, better to start up that. That I run that's then.
- 51:59Then they go work somewhere else.
- 52:01That's kind of the the genesis of of Xai and Xai is is focused
- 52:07on a sort of AGI. Yeah so it's but I I'd like so I
- 52:15think there will be some value that Xai brings to Tesla you
- 52:25know also some of the best. For the very best people in the
- 52:27world they they really just want to work on interesting problems.
- 52:29If you take say you know our material science group you know
- 52:33really what convinced the Charlie Coleman to leave Apple
- 52:37we was very happy and well compensated and both at and both
- 52:43you know the the the where we think is the best material
- 52:49science group in the world was that he got to work at both
- 52:52Tesla and SpaceX He he wasn't willing to.
- 52:55Leave Apple, If it was just Tesla, but he was willing to do
- 52:58it, it was Tesla and SpaceX. So sometimes you get the best
- 53:01talent in the world. That's the kind of thing you
- 53:03know you need to do. And that actually has been very
- 53:06beneficial to Tesla so. If you know if I can squeeze one
- 53:11more mundane question in, I I wonder if you think you can hit
- 53:17the 1.8 million unit number with current pricing or do you
- 53:20anticipate? Needing to continue to lower
- 53:24prices because it seems like they've stabilized, the trends
- 53:27have stabilized in the last maybe a month and a half.
- 53:29Should we expect a sort of continued decreases or or more
- 53:34stabilization for the rest of the year?
- 53:41Sure. You know we have, we have a
- 53:43really sort of we started the referral program which I think
- 53:47will be quite effective. So you know, as as Zach was
- 53:51saying earlier, we we don't control the macroeconomic
- 53:55conditions. So if interest rates continue to
- 53:57rise that reduces the affordability of cars, you know
- 54:02and and for a lot of people they're really trying to balance
- 54:05that just you know, barely breaking even every month.
- 54:08In fact, if you look at the rise in credit card debt, they are in
- 54:10fact not breaking even every month like credit card debt is,
- 54:14is looking scary so. You know, we just don't control
- 54:22the micro conditions. If American conditions are
- 54:24stable, I think prices will be stable.
- 54:26And if they're not stable, then we would have to lower prices,
- 54:31yeah. Thank you.
- 54:34Let's go to Colin Rush from Oppenheimer.
- 54:38That's so much. Guys, you know is your.
- 54:41Building out Dojo, implementing what really is gonna be a highly
- 54:45complex set of software. Can you speak to the maturity of
- 54:48the operating system and how much software you're expecting
- 54:52to use in that system? This is a custom software stack
- 54:58so but it is designed such that you can run at the high at a
- 55:06high level pie torch. And jacks, so but then you know
- 55:14we have to customize it to actually run on a custom
- 55:17silicon. So this the software stack is a
- 55:22combination of open source software and then and that tells
- 55:24the software all the way to the bear silicon, which is the case
- 55:28for the inference computer in the car so.
- 55:34Okay, thanks so much. That's super powerful.
- 55:35And then can you speak to how you're managing some of the
- 55:37geopolitical risks relative to your capacity expansion?
- 55:41You know, obviously as you guys continue to grow at this rate,
- 55:43you're gonna be putting some folks out of business and you
- 55:46know there's going to be some impacts around regional
- 55:49economies. So just want to understand how
- 55:50you're thinking about that in terms of some of your CapEx
- 55:53plans and and how you're managing some of those
- 55:54relationships with with different countries and regions?
- 56:03You know, this is a period of unusual geopolitical risk.
- 56:09So I think we're the best we can do is you know have factories
- 56:14and many parts of the world such that if things get difficult in
- 56:19one part of the world we you know, we can still keep keep
- 56:22things going in the rest of the world.
- 56:27Thank you. The next question comes from
- 56:30Mark Delaney from Goldman Sachs. Thank you very much for taking
- 56:38that question. Tesla has been making progress
- 56:40reducing cost and did so again last quarter.
- 56:43Can you give an update on when you think automotive COGS per
- 56:45vehicle could be under the historical $36,000 per vehicle
- 56:48level? And what are?
- 56:49The key puts and takes to get there.
- 56:54This is, I think it was asked this in the past.
- 56:56This is very difficult to forecast.
- 56:58You know there's a series of costs that we manage.
- 57:01This here is a cost in which we don't control and so you know
- 57:05particularly on the commodity side where labor, Costco
- 57:09etcetera, it's just hard to say. Yeah, we saw very inflationary
- 57:15like strong inflationary pressures for a while last year
- 57:19and and now we're which obviously makes it very
- 57:23difficult to reduce COGS you know now we're seeing.
- 57:28What seemed to be deflationary pressures, certainly
- 57:30deflationary deflation is a pressure, but we're seeing you
- 57:37know commodity prices dropped, dropping as as was mentioned you
- 57:40know as car mentioned a moment ago and.
- 57:46I think, I mean what do you think it basically the trends
- 57:49should be deflationary at the commodity level?
- 57:51Definitely there's that. And then there's also the the
- 57:54unit economics improve as volumes grow.
- 57:57That's the other thing we're seeing as we're becoming a
- 57:59bigger and bigger part of a lot of suppliers, economies of scale
- 58:02come into play. There's equipment appreciation
- 58:04that comes into play, equipment that was commissioned five to
- 58:07seven years ago that used to be a part of the peace price that's
- 58:10completely amortized. So we'll see situations where
- 58:13peace price comes down. Because that equipment
- 58:16contribution has gone away and then just we continued to have
- 58:19this mentality of continuous improvement in terms of Labor
- 58:23reducing labor, improving automation and and just continue
- 58:27to get better at what we do. So we have seen I think every
- 58:29quarter. We have seen an improvement, of
- 58:31course, the commodity spiked up and down.
- 58:33Yeah, just in. General the trend is towards
- 58:37being more efficient. Yeah, and and totally agree.
- 58:40Yeah, but lithium prices weren't absolutely insane there for a
- 58:43while. Yeah, yeah.
- 58:44And they're recovering now. About like 1/3 of what it used
- 58:46to be. Yeah.
- 58:48Yeah. And you know, we're still early
- 58:49in the ramps. Well, not early in the ramp, but
- 58:52early in the cost down curve of Austin and Berlin.
- 58:55Yeah. So it takes time to work the
- 58:57cost out at first it's a focused on ramp, ramp it brings cost.
- 59:01Down quality and then yeah. And quality cost.
- 59:04Yeah. And then once that stabilizes,
- 59:05we can divert bandwidth to cost reduction.
- 59:08And so Austin Berlin saw quite a decent amount of cost reduction
- 59:12on a fundamental basis from Q1 to Q2.
- 59:15We'll continue to do that work. That will be helpful.
- 59:18And so we're just gonna keep shipping away at it, yeah.
- 59:22Package is a big, big element to logistics too.
- 59:26Logistics is normalizing, which is great.
- 59:28QQ Bot utilization. Something that your team has
- 59:33been very focused on, so every bit of it.
- 59:38Yeah. It's hard.
- 59:39Logistics is under appreciated. Yeah, the whole thing is like
- 59:45that was one with tactics, wasn't one with logistics.
- 59:48Yeah. And we've made tremendous
- 59:49improvements in cost and on fronts on you know express
- 59:54costs. We have down down Pre, Pandemic
- 59:58Express cost levels now. And our goal is to go further
- 1:00:02down. So, yeah, so when we look at our
- 1:00:06progress from Q1 to Q2 on cost, the way that we look at
- 1:00:10internally and normalize for the impacts of mix shift with Austin
- 1:00:14and Berlin being a higher percentage of our mix, normalize
- 1:00:17for S&X being a higher percentage of our mix in Q2
- 1:00:20versus Q1, the sequential cost reduction, it might be the
- 1:00:24largest we've had in a while. So anything is it's great work
- 1:00:28on behalf of the Tesla team. And we just gotta keep it up.
- 1:00:32To get game of pennies, it's like Game of Thrones with
- 1:00:35pennies. Mark, do you have a follow up
- 1:00:39question? I think you're muted.
- 1:00:42Yep. Yeah.
- 1:00:43Thank you very much for all the the details on that.
- 1:00:46Maybe you could put a finer point on the downtime impact
- 1:00:49that you you spoke about in your prepared comments in terms of
- 1:00:53production impact and then also to what extent there's a margin
- 1:00:56impact from those if? You have a phrase that you're
- 1:00:59planning this quarter. Thank you.
- 1:01:06Yeah, the the downtime. You know, we don't know exactly
- 1:01:11the number of cars impacted because you know kind of the way
- 1:01:14that we go into downtime windows for upgrades is, you know we set
- 1:01:18aside a period of time, but then the team is challenged to go as
- 1:01:21quickly as possible so that we can get the factories up and
- 1:01:24running again and minimize that. So it's not, it's not profound
- 1:01:29reduction, you know, hopefully it's quite small I think.
- 1:01:31We're getting too much into Louise here.
- 1:01:33I mean, like we're asking for a level of precision that is not
- 1:01:36possible to answer. So let's move on.
- 1:01:40Yeah. I think this is unfortunately
- 1:01:42all the time we have for today. OK.
- 1:01:44So we'll speak to you all in the next three months.
- 1:01:47Thank. You very much thank you.