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内容摘要
马斯克宣布了奥斯汀超级工厂,并回顾了Tesla连续第4个季度实现盈利以及完全自动驾驶方面的进展。
Musk announces the Austin Gigafactory and reviews Tesla's fourth consecutive profitable quarter and Full Self-Driving progress.
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70 个段落
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现在我想把电话会议交给演讲者、投资者关系高级总监马丁·维塔先生,请开始,先生,你 谢谢你,莎莉,大家下午好,欢迎参加Tesla 2020年第二季度问答网络直播。今天与我一同出席的有埃隆·马斯克、扎卡里·柯克霍恩和其他多位高管都很可爱,结果已于下午1:15左右公布。
第 2 段
太平洋时间,更新内容已发布在与本次网络直播相同的链接上。在本次代码期间,我们将讨论业务展望并作出前瞻性陈述。这些评论基于我们截至今天的预测和预期。由于多项风险和不确定性,实际事件和结果可能存在重大差异,包括我们最近向 SEC 提交的文件中提到的那些风险和不确定性。在今天电话会议的问答环节,请将提问限制为1个问题和1个追问。如果您想加入提问队列,请现在按星号键 1。但在我们进入 TNA 之前,伊兰有一些开场讲话,你想,谢谢。首先,我要感谢测试团队在第二季度面对巨大
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困难时所展现的出色执行力。他们完成了令人难以置信的工作,能与这样一支优秀的团队共事是一种荣幸。我的意思是,挑战实在太多、太多了,多、多得无法一一列举,但他们把事情做成了,真是一群非常出色的共事伙伴。就像我说的,能与这样一支优秀的团队共事是一种荣幸。因此,我们得以实现连续第4个盈利、盈利季度。尽管汽车行业在上半年同比下滑约30%,但我们设法让上半年的交付量实现了增长。所以,尽管出现了大规模的行业对行业下滑,我们实际上增长了。我们也非常兴奋地宣布,我们将在得克萨斯州建设下一座超级工厂。它会紧邻奥斯汀,或者不,但它会
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大约是,我稍微详细讲一下,然后实际上有很多问题,但看看这个地点,距我们的海洋国际机场5分钟,距奥斯汀市中心15分钟,占地约2,000英亩。我们会把它建成一座令人惊叹的工厂。它就在科罗拉多河畔,所以我们实际上会有,我们有一条木板步道,那里会有徒步和自行车道。它基本上会成为一片生态天堂,有鸟、树木、蝴蝶,还能在溪流里钓鱼,而且那里也会向公众开放。所以不是封闭的,也不只供 Tesla 使用。如果有人有兴趣到吉吉蒂-吉吉蒂得克萨斯工作,无论是工程、生产还是什么岗位,请告诉我们。这里我们将要进行
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一座非常非常大的工厂,而且我们还会在那里生产 Cybertruck、Tesla Semi,并为北美东半部生产 Model 3 和为什么。同时我想说,我们会继续在加利福尼亚州发展。因此,我们预计加利福尼亚州会为全球市场生产 Model S 和 X,并为北美西半部生产 3 和为什么。我们认为,未来的 Tesla Roadster 项目可能也适合放在加利福尼亚州。所以我认为,这是得克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州之间很好的分工,而且要强调的是,我们会继续在加利福尼亚州发展,但会在得克萨斯州建设一座大型工厂,并开展 Cybertruck 和 Semi 项目。所以,我也想特别向塔尔萨致意,并且说声谢
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非常感谢塔尔萨团队、经济发展团队和州长。我真的,我对酒店团队印象极其深刻,印象极其深刻,而且未来在 Tesla 进行扩张时,我们肯定会认真考虑塔尔萨。让我们看看,关于这个还有没有更多想说的,信息很多,所以这些人,我确信会有很多问题。我们已经开始了该设施的工作,所以已经开展了一些初步施工工作,因此工程已经启动,是这个周末开始的。让我们看看,转到其他主题,太阳能。我们最近调整了改造型太阳能产品的定价,所以 Tesla 太阳能是美国最低等级的太阳能产品,而且我们增加了最低、最低价格保证和退款保证。所以我们非常有信心
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人们会喜欢我们的太阳能产品,无论是改造型太阳能还是太阳能屋顶。获得联邦、联邦税收抵免后,太阳能现在比美国平均水平便宜希坦。Tesla 席拉现在每瓦成本为1美元49美分,而且整个体验非常简单、高度自动化,只需点击一下。所以无论你是想要一个新屋顶或 Tesla 太阳能屋顶,还是想在现有屋顶上安装太阳能,都一定要考虑 Tesla。无论哪一种,我们都是那家要发展、要去的公司。然后你还会得到一个 Powerwall,实现能源独立,成为你自己的公用事业公司。所以我认为,那部分确实正在整合起来,而且今年晚些时候只会变得更好。所以我就是对此非常兴奋,那是一个业务潜力,在那个,你知道,如果有更多技术方面的东西
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方面的东西,我们推出了首款续航超过400英里的量产车。目前 Tesla Model S 经 EPA 认证的续航里程为402英里。我的意思是,基本上可以从洛杉矶不停地开到旧金山,抵达时还会剩下一些温和的英里数,而且这是在高速公路速度下。所以你说的只是在任何事情之后缓慢驾驶或其他什么,你就开它,你只是正常驾驶,而且,你知道,行驶非常非常长的距离。然后在完全自动驾驶方面,我们推出了交通信号灯和停车标志功能,并继续证明这一点,让它们更加稳健。我们目前还在测试适用于十字路口、城市街道和狭窄街道的驾驶软件。所以我亲自测试完全自动驾驶软件的最新 alpha 版本,当我
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当我驾驶自己的车时,它真的,我认为,比人们意识到的好得深刻得多。是的,真的好得深刻得多,简直令人惊叹。所以它几乎已经达到这样的程度:我可以从家里开到公司,全程无需干预,尽管途中会经过施工路段和各种差异很大的情况。所以这就是为什么我非常有信心,完全自动驾驶功能将在今年年底前完成。这不是因为我实际上是在结论中驾驶它。就像,再次感谢 Tesla 团队的辛勤工作。实现公司历史上首个全年盈利极其困难,而这正是全球许多 Tesla 员工辛勤工作的结果。而且,是的,只要想想接下来的、接下来的12至18个月,我们将会有
第 10 段
如果情况看起来很棒,3座新工厂就位,有一个全都在内的超级,我们还将拥有 Cybertruck、Semi、Roadster、完全自动驾驶。有太多值得兴奋的事情,真的很难把它们全都塞进这块煤里。但大量的硬核工程工作令人震撼,尤其是在,你知道,自动驾驶和人员制造工程方面。然后当然还有电池日,你知道,它很快就要到来了,我认为它真的会让人们惊讶于竟然有这么、这么多东西可看。因此,再次感谢你们对我们长期使命的支持,我们期待与你们共同踏上一段精彩旅程,创造令人惊叹的产品并继续扩大规模。是的,这是一个,我想我从来没有
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像现在这样对 Tesla 的未来和公司历史感到如此乐观或兴奋。谢谢,非常感谢。我想我们的 CEO 感觉像一根创纪录的玉米,也有一些话要说。是的,谢谢,马丁。首先,我要感谢我们的员工、客户和供应商在过去一个季度给予的支持。尤其要感谢 Tesla 团队,我对你们所有人在总体收入方面展现出的辛勤工作和韧性,再钦佩也不为过。正如埃隆提到的,我们实现了连续第4个季度盈利,尽管我们的美国工厂以及世界各地的现场业务暂停运营,对我们的财务状况造成了重大影响。为了确保业务保持健康,我们采取了临时措施来降低成本,包括
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与人员和非关键路径项目有关的费用。临时停工造成的直接成本节省,那种直接成本影响,基本上被这些成本节省措施所抵消,尽管成本集中在销售成本,而成本削减同时涉及销售成本和运营费用。汽车业务毛利率不含监管积分,如果这样算,则环比从20%降至18。
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7%。这一环比下降完全归因于闲置产能费用和因各种停工而导致的运营效率降低。尽管存在这些费用,我们仍继续在降低成本方面取得进展,尤其是在弗里蒙特的 Model Y 和上海的 Model 3 上。考虑到全球宏观经济背景,我们在第二季度决定将部分产品的节省让利给世界各地的客户。随着交通信号灯和停车标志识别及响应功能的发布,我们在本期确认了4,800万递延收入。由于与现场改装 FSD 计算机相关的成本,对我们损益表的全部利润影响不到这一数字的一半。监管积分收入环比增至4.28亿,尽管很难精确预测
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我们对2020年积分收入的最佳估计约为2019年的2倍。服务及其他业务的利润率再次改善,标志着连续第5个季度有所改善。在能源业务中,我们的Megapack产品首次实现季度盈利。该业务仍受到产能限制,我们正继续努力建设更多产能,而我们的太阳能安装业务受到许可办公室关闭的影响,限制了安装量。基于股票的薪酬几乎完全源于与CEO薪酬方案下一批次相关的一项费用,以及第一批次的提前解锁,这反映在运营费用中的销售、一般及行政费用里。现金流方面,我们的现金余额增至迄今最高水平的8。
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60亿,其中包括超过4亿的自由现金流。尽管与上海和柏林相关的资本支出有所增加,营运资金也发生变动,但这本身仍是一项强劲的业绩。关于营运资金,尤其是应收账款,有几点需要说明。虽然我们的应收账款余额通常约占收入的20%,但它可能会因多项因素而波动。第一,总体而言,我们的应收账款中只有不到30%与新车销售有关。第二,由于与融资和企业客户相关的付款条款、某些现金支付方式的结算时间,以及我们交付的地域组合,我们的现金余额和相关应收账款会受到最终交付多少辆汽车的显著影响
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本季度的数周和数日中,第三,大约40%的余额归因于监管积分销售的付款条款和法定的伊维激励计划,这两项一直都在增加。客户订金也略有减少。请注意,随着我们在全球范围内转向更低的订单费用,每份订单的平均订金将继续下降,从而拉低这一余额。展望未来,Tesla 得以顺利度过“排队去做”——我们的文化敏捷而富有活力。我们将继续通过成本优化和严格的营运资本管理,适当地“邮寄并享受”现金流。这一点至关重要,因为我们仍专注于扩大生产、扩展运营规模,并为未来1年半内启动3座新工厂做准备。谢谢
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非常感谢。我们先来看机构投资者的问题。第1个问题是:字母s,Tesla继续迈向每年销售2000万辆这一长期目标时,在Model 3、为什么和Cybertruck之外,未来3至5年推动建设增长的最重要车型项目是什么?价格更低、尺寸更小的3和为什么版本,或者地区特定车型,抑或其他任何东西?我认为,对于已经公布的内容之外的详细产品路线图,我们无法削减评论,因为我同意,我们希望把这些留到产品发布时再说。但可以合理地假设,我们会制造某种紧凑型车辆,你知道,也可能会制造某种载客量更高的阿斯特拉车辆,你知道,这些
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很可能会在某个时候出现,但我确实认为,3和为什么、Cybertruck以及Semi都还有很长的路要走,你知道,所以这些还有很长的路要走。我会做那些显而易见的事情。好的,这位额外的提出的第2个问题是:你对Tesla软件的愿景是什么?除了生物FSP之外,你认为通过已安装车辆群实现变现还有哪些机会?目前,通过欺诈,到目前为止,FST显然是最重要的事情。你知道,我认为,基本上通过一次那边的软件更新将整个车队升级为完全自动驾驶,我是说,这可能会被载入史册,成为历史上规模最大的资产价值增长,因为这是一次阶跃式变化。你知道,也许还有某个比它更大的东西;它肯定会是最大的变化之一。我想不出
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任何更大的事情。所以,算是那些一夜之间的,你知道,在100万时,确切定义它何时发生,以及何时会在各个监管辖区获准;你会看到差不多几百万辆汽车突然变得更具可行性,大约是原来的5倍,或者类似这样。它的效用只提高了5倍,从每周大约12小时的效用,或者类似这样,或其中的使用时数,增加到60小时,就像这样。你知道,所以相比之下,其他事情可能都相当微不足道。现在,当事物确实实现完全自动驾驶后,那么,如果我们当时待在车里,要做什么呢?嗯,我想他们可能会想进行某种生产活动和娱乐。你知道,对于特拉维斯,玩游戏和工作。嗯,那是未来最好的状态。是的,我们已经在加入一些
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游戏之类的东西到车里,只是为了好玩。是的,是的,我们一直在这方面进行试验。因此,在新环境中,fsd仍然是遥遥领先的最大机会,但我们正在铺设基础设施,以便在时机成熟时为其他领域扩展规模做好准备。所以,高级连接服务订阅是我们已经推出的一项服务;此外,你还可以通过应用程序升级车辆,例如提升加速性能,或者将标准续航版Model 3升级到标准续航升级版,以及增配后排座椅加热功能。所以,这些是我们已经拥有的东西,而且我们会继续从实际使用中获取反馈,了解我们还能推出哪些其他东西,并会随着时间推移逐步加入。是的,但与像拖车一样的那些东西相比,它们都非常微小,比如迈向完全
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自动驾驶取决于高计算,每辆车的价值可能会超过,你知道,至少100,000美元。所以,作为血液软件,你拥有,所以,是的,在应用商店或其他什么地方。是的,谢谢。第3个问题也与自动辅助驾驶有关。即将到来的最重要的自动驾驶里程碑是什么?你如何看待时间安排?嗯,实际上目前正在发生的重大里程碑,确实是车辆自动驾驶系统的转型,比如说车辆的 AI,如果你愿意这么称呼的话,从用 AI 代码思考事物,比如2.5D,就像大手指蓝色,但它是大牛排,像孤立的图片,并且对图片进行图像识别,这些图片在时间上强烈相关,但并不是非常好;然后转向某种4D,在那里,你知道,它就像
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你的,也就是视频,本质上,你会,你是在3个维度中思考世界,并将第4个维度视为时间。因此,这项架构变更已经进行了一段时间,但实际上还没有向量产车队中的任何人推出,而这才是完成驾驶真正重要的东西。所以,你知道,到目前为止,我们所做的其实一直就像是2D,主要是2D,还有 Alexa 弹出,没有在时间上很好地关联。所以,就是,你就是,就是很难表达一个完全4D的系统会好多少。它确实有效,它能够做到一些事情,如果你只是把事物视作单独的图片而不是视频,就会觉得,基本上就像你可以从单独的图片转向环绕视频
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这是一个根本性的变化。所以,这次电话会议看起来会取得像是巨大的改进,我从未,可能会在今年晚些时候推出它,但你知道,它将能够处理交通信号灯、停车、转弯、农作物,几乎所有事情,你知道。然后,从本质上说,这将是一场漫长的多个9的进程,也就是可靠性达到多少个9才算可以。所以,它肯定比人类好得多,但需要比人类好多少?所以,真正的工作其实会是这个;工作量极其庞大,每提升一个数量级的可靠性都是如此。但你会看到一件完美的事情发生;如果你把这些点画在曲线上,它的走向会相当明显。总体来说,我认为 AI 是某种东西,你知道,10年来我一直在敲响这个著名的 AI 鼓。我们应该
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关注 AI 将走向何方。我所看到的在 AI 问题上错得最离谱的人,是那些非常聪明的人,因为他们无法想象计算机会比他们聪明得多。但这就是他们逻辑中的缺陷,他们的水平远比自己所想的低。谢谢。下一位额外的投资者提出的问题是:请问你能否向我们介绍一下“外星无畏舰”的最新情况?你的想法发生了怎样的演变?为了更接近基本的物理极限,或者为制造工程投入海量精力,需要做些什么?机器奥莱克斯机器。工厂所需的工程工作可能比产品本身多1,000%,也许多10,000%。所以,我们开始取得惊人的进展。我是说,你知道
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电池和动力总成工厂,内华达超级工厂,是,你知道,处于外星人驱动的工作版本0。
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5,某种上帝只是,你知道,开始接近版本1。我们在制造汽车方面正变得好得多,你可以在上海超级工厂看到这一点,在柏林你会更加明显地看到这一点,而且我们确实正在改变汽车的设计,以便让它更易于制造。Model Y 的基础架构在柏林将会不同。它看起来可能一样,但内部会大不相同,而且在架构II上,然后比我们迄今所做的从根本上更高效。费克·朱朱,你想补充一下吗?是的,我正想从那方面展开。我认为,“外星无畏舰”概念的一部分不仅是自动化,还包括尽量减少制造系统所涉及的工序数量和复杂性,这实际上涉及整合设计
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与制造,横跨某些,比如从原材料进入工厂到成品离开工厂的整个过程,而我们正在学到很多东西。垂直整合对此极其重要,但在供应链方面,如果你在一个分子上装上类似 GPS 的追踪器,从冬季袖口头脑到矿工处在一个可用产品中,它看起来会很疯狂。我们会像是,哇,奇怪,绕着世界转了大约6次。所以,通过垂直整合,也许你会绕世界大约1次,你知道,这是巨大的改进,或者甚至连半次都不到。哦,我喜欢快乐地获得垂直整合,就像拉帕拉量规,实现一个数量级的改进。所以,是的,这是罗慕伦人。我认为,我们关注的重点是提高资本支出和效率。这是我们一直在非常努力推进的事情
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在过去3年里,你可以看到,我们能够用更少的钱、更快地建造新工厂,是的,这些事情是相辅相成的,它变得更好了,是一座花钱更少、用时更短的更好工厂,而钱意味着那里的时间更少,所以这是一个巨大的优势,而且还要减少这个,而这个仍然很多,也就是大量的低效。我们希望每项操作都能为车辆增加价值,嗯,价值意味着让原子更接近最终状态,你知道,所以我们不想要任何只是搬运东西的机器人。是的,成比例的,事实上,这就像是我们要超级尊重人们的劳动。如果我们要求某个人做某件事,我们确定它有用吗?我们是在要求他们以一种尊重其时间的方式花费时间吗?但、但它是
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就像,哇,改进的潜力是如此巨大,而这就是为什么我们在 Tesla 这里说清楚,我们热爱制造,它太棒了,而且我真的认为应该有更多聪明的人从事制造工作,他们再安排一个人,是的,我们、我们、我们的确如此。如果人们有兴趣设计新生产线,并尝试以不同的方式做事,你知道,Tesla 有一份工作给你,而现在我们到处都有工作。不只是在加利福尼亚,我们在中国、柏林和得克萨斯州奥斯汀都有,而且在加利福尼亚,如果你,所以有很多令人兴奋的地方,而所有这些地方都会开展原创工作,以及有挑战性但有意义的工作。绝对是这样,设计新的生产系统实际上极其令人兴奋,也很有成就感,而且我认为,你知道,出于某种原因
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我感觉它的名声特别糟糕,尤其是在 u.
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很长一段时间以来,而且、而且我认为人们并不觉得制造者算是,对制造的看法就像是,哦,它是多孔的,我很无聊,只是在制作副本,随便吧,但实际上,制造领域的创新机会远远多于产品本身,足足高出一个数量级。所以,不过,就像如果这次电话会议能传达出一件事,那就是,嘿,如果你想帮助我们发明惊人的新制造技术,并且、并且参与到产品本身之中,情况并不是你只是被扔给一个产品,然后别人说,嘿,制造这个、这个产品,而它是你会拿到的某种糟糕设计。如果你从事制造,你可以改变产品设计,并说,嘿,如果这是你要我制造的产品,那很蠢。对方会说,好极了,让我们修正它,你知道
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所以我,这个,你知道,我,如果你从事制造工程,那么你就只能被硬塞一份屎三明治;你可以改变产品设计。所以你知道,这超级令人兴奋,而且即使在它们投票之后,我们仍在改进生产线,这就是生产系统的快速演进。所以,没有什么比从每小时生产0辆车提升到,对,每周生产5000辆车或每天生产1000辆车更有成就感了。对,所以你知道,从长期来看,Tesla的可持续优势,我认为将会是制造。非常感谢。来自这位额外投资者的最后一个问题是:Tesla目前能在得州生产多少辆车?0辆,但长期来看会很多。最大的地块。对,它基于架构。好的,现在我们可以转向散户投资者的问题。
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在 save calm 上,第1个问题是:Tesla能源似乎被华尔街广泛忽视、鄙视,尽管长期以来有评论称其增长率将超过汽车业务。能否分享更多当前或规划中项目的细节,帮助投资者更好地了解业务前景?Tesla的Autobidder技术有多大的颠覆性?对,卡拉说,我认为长期来看,Tesla能源的规模将与Tesla汽车业务大致相同。所以,我的意思是,能源业务总体上比汽车业务更大。所以你可以说,你知道,能源行业有多大?比汽车行业更大。所以,为了实现可持续能源的未来,我们必须拥有可持续能源发电,我认为主要会是太阳能,然后,你知道,迈出脚步,接着是风能。
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而那些亲密的东西需要有大量电池来储存太阳能,因为噪音什么时候吹起,而太阳不照耀。所以,可持续能源的未来大概有3个要素:风能和太阳能等可持续能源发电、电池储能以及电动交通工具,这3样东西。而Tesla的使命是加速可持续能源发展,所以我可以充分强调这个缺陷,比如,对,坏电池和太阳能都将规模巨大,而且为了拥有可持续的未来,它们也确实必须如此。我们在这方面也有很棒的产品路线图。所以我们要在Megapack里旅行,它很受欢迎。谈谈那个,嗯,对,但我认为Megapack已经展现了自己,并且是一种集成式、可快速部署的……
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你知道,并网的兆兆瓦时级储能电池。我们正与大大小小的公用事业公司合作,你知道,不只是公用事业公司,还有各种微电网和项目开发商,并且在合理的地方建设我们自己的项目。市场对这款产品有大量需求,我们正尽可能快地提高这款产品的生产速度。然后说到Autobidder,Autobidder基本上就是并网电池的Autopilot。它是一个自主参与能源市场的系统,你知道,它进行高频交易,并确保那是个坏词,抱歉,抱歉,它释放给财政部的东西叫抢先交易。对,我们没有做任何那样的坏事。它是在确保电池尽其所能地进行管理……
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续订、可再生能源的信用身份,以及各种电网间歇性问题。我的意思是,你知道,人们开关电灯,发电厂也要开关。对,工厂提高和降低产量,而电池非常适合解决这些问题。对,它就是,它能在毫秒级实现电网稳定。正是如此。所以它只是确保一切都极其平稳。它就像一个,你知道,规模巨大的UPS,也就是不间断电源,但它只是让电网平稳运行。然后电池,你知道,计算机之类的,全都彼此交互,并确保它们协同工作,让电网变得绝望。而且这可以利用电力规则快速完成,Megapack和Powerpack也全都一起工作……
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并且也与相关方系统交互。对,本质上,或者分布式的,它确实投票。对,对,我的意思是,我们已经,对。哦,为了解决可持续能源问题,这是必要的吗?对。在可再生能源的世界里,你不能按小时尺度规划发电厂;你需要规划,需要逐分钟优化它们,而这就是我们正在做的。对,Tesla增长真正的限制,是以可负担的价格生产电芯,但那是最好的规则限制。所以,你知道,这就是为什么我们会在电池日更详细地讨论这件事,因为这是根本性的规模扩张约束,而该供应链任何环节,或电芯层面的压制,都将成为限制因素。所以,你知道……
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无论它可能是什么,从采矿到精炼的任何环节,有很多步骤,或者从精炼到正极和负极成型、电芯成型,无论瓶颈在哪里,它都会决定增长率的根源。所以,你知道,我们预计会扩大与Panasonic、C ATL、LG的业务,也可能与其他公司扩大业务。而且,你知道,在更好的日子里,关于那场欺诈还有很多可说的。谢谢。第2个问题是:现在不是将Tesla Semi投入量产的时候了吗?你能否分享更多生产计划的细节?什么样的疲弱生产速度会被视为量产?这何时像是预计达到该速度?好的,那么我们明年的产量是多少?正如我们之前宣布的那样。我个人非常关心这个项目,我等不及了。我们确实有……
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几辆卡车一直在四处行驶,并且一直在运送汽车,但我们将加速推进这件事。我想明确说明,最初的几辆车将由我们自己以及Tesla使用,用来运输我们自己的货物,可能主要往返于Fremont和Reno之间,这是一条非常棒的测试路线。我们想证明我们拥有非常好的可靠性,到目前为止,早期车辆确实具备这一点,但我们会以更大规模来做这件事。我们也向一些长期以来非常耐心并给予支持的客户承诺了部分早期的你,而我们现在会这样做。明年我们会有更多自我出现,正如你刚才指出的那样,这样我们就能提高产品组合的多样性。到目前为止这样做没有意义。对,但我们会准备好,而这也许有一个偏见,对此非常兴奋。
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而且我们有许多非常独特的技术,是我们一直梦想着要放进那辆Semi里的。它会非常棒。对,而且电芯大致有2类,一类是磷酸铁,另一类是镍基,镍镍镍服从电芯具有更高的能量密度,所以显然续航更长。对于Semi这样的产品,这些电芯是必需的,因为电池包每增加1个单位的质量,就必须从载货量中减去1个单位。所以对于完整电池来说,拥有质量效率高且续航长的电池包非常重要。不过,我们在乘用车上看到的是,我们的动力总成效率和更高效率的阻力系数,比如基本上所有东西,我们的HVAC改用热泵……
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基本上,以Model 3为例,我们整车的整体效率已经变得足够好,因此我们实际上可以放心地在中国的Model 3上使用磷酸铁电池包。而且,你知道,它将在今年晚些时候投入量产。所以我们认为,你知道,获得200多英里的高段续航,你知道,基本上,但我们认为,在考虑一大堆动力总成和其他整车效率之后,使用磷酸铁电池包可能获得接近300英里的续航。这就为Tesla Semi之类的产品,以及其他需要更高能量密度的项目释放了大量产能。所以,对,这样你就有了2条可以利用的供应链:磷酸铁或镍。我们使用的钴非常少……
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在我们的系统中已经如此,而这,你知道,长期来看可能趋近于0。所以关键其实是镍。谢谢。下一个问题是:Tesla最近决定不生产Model Y的标准续航版,不再办公室提供标准续航版Model S或X,并宣布扩大Semi的生产。这种从小容量电池包车辆转移的趋势,是否说明Tesla不再像过去那样受到电池限制?目前最大的限制是什么?好吧,我只想再次肯定它们的规模。任何在场的矿业公司,请开采更多镍,好的。无论你们身处世界何地,请开采更多镍。并且不要等到镍价回到你们在大约5年前经历过的某个长期、某个高点之类的水平。去高效地,你知道,以环境友好的方式……
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进行大规模镍矿开采。如果你们高效且以对环境敏感的方式开采镍,Tesla将给你们一份期限很长的巨额合同。所以希望这条信息能传达给所有矿业公司:请获取镍。关于乘用车,我认为续航的新常态,按美国EPA续航里程的说法,你知道,将会是大约300英里。所以我认为,人们会真正开始把接近300英里的某个数值视为正常,你知道,那是一种标准预期,因为你确实需要考虑到,比如,你知道,外面是否非常热或非常冷,或者,你知道,你是否满载驶上高山。我,而且这是一个,你知道,人们当我有一个,你知道,到达目的地时带着……
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比如10英里的续航里程,不过他们想要一些区域性的合理余量,所以我认为300将会非常接近,300将成为新的常态,引用一下,基本上大约500公里,谢谢。下一个问题是关于保险的。Tesla 保险在加州以外推出的阻碍是什么?你们会公布这部分业务的数据吗?作为司机参与 Tesla 网约车网络是否必须购买产权保险?当然,嗯,是的,我们在电话会议前还开玩笑说,然后我们就收到了季度保险问题,那个触及回应一种平静,我们来了。我们正在极其努力地推进保险。我会在这里讲得比过去更详细一点,但目前我们在加州有一款产品,正如我之前所描述的,它获得了相当不错的反响。
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我大体上会把它描述为一款相当标准的保险产品,其中有些要素是我们汽车所独有的,你可以把它看作 Tesla 保险的版本1。是的,版本是为了夜间吗,它至少会在夜间归零吗,是的,但我们目前正在开发的是,我们可以称之为版本2,或者可以称之为我们车载信息处理产品的第1个版本。是的,所以实际上,我们最终希望通过 Tesla 保险实现的是,能够利用汽车中获取的数据,也就是车内人员的驾驶画像,来评估碰撞的相关性和概率,进而能够按月为该客户评估保费。而让我们对此感到非常兴奋的是可用数据的数量。
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在客户允许的情况下使用,这这在世界上任何其他产品或任何其他车辆中都不可用,你这在信息方面给了我们独特优势,而我们在这里面临一个决策点:我们可以采用加州的产品,并将其复制到其他州,或者我们可以推迟推迟进入更多州,转而在车载信息服务方面投入更多精力,而我们选择了后者。我们现在几乎已经完成与第一版车载信息服务产品相关的风险和成本分析。我们希望很快就能在少数几个州向监管机构提交该产品,而且假设监管审批顺利,我们希望在年底前让它进入少数几个州,然后然后
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接着将继续在更多州申请批准。随着监管批准,我们将在全国范围内尽可能快地继续推出这项产品。然后随着我们继续收集更多数据并对该产品进行迭代,它将成为第2版、第3版等等,我们会继续完善它。是的,我的意思是,保险竞争力的核心在于你的信息准确度如何,比如你所面对的是,你是否被迫通过后视镜、从统计层面评估人们,还是可以利用明智的预测,向前看并对个人进行评估,同时告知驾驶员,他们可以如何降低自己的,他们可以采取什么行动来降低自己的保险,因为我可以了解到,这就像,如果可以,你开车
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太快了,你,你知道,在做这个、那个或其他事情。就像如果你,如果你想为保险支付更多费用,你可以这么做,但如果你想少付一点,你知道,那么请不要开得如此疯狂。然后我,然后人们可以作出选择,比如,好吧,他们想激进驾驶,在这种情况下,不,就会有更高更高的保险费用;或者他们不会,你在驾驶方面更加小心,而费用就会佩皮得更少。对我们来说,拥有一个反馈循环,了解是什么推高了保险支出,实际上也非常有帮助。其中很多只是,就像,是的,比如轻微的翼子板碰撞,还有那个网络中心供应商,因为车身碰撞维修的处理方式,你知道,费用会达到大约15000美元或某个疯狂的数字,而比如我们将会有,而且而且随后我们实际上可以
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调整汽车的设计,并调整维修的方式,从而真正降低解决该问题的根本成本。所以这在我们基本上没有意识到的情况下,帮助我们处理了一大堆设施方面的事情,而这通常是保险存在的一个问题。就像,如果保险是自助畅享式的,那么用于改进的反馈循环就是我们。所以这为我们提供了很好的改进反馈循环,基本上让我们拥有一种从根本上更好的保险产品。我还想以招聘的精神说一句,因为如果我希望这次电话会议能带来一件事,那就是许多优秀人才想加入 Tesla,这是我想要的第1件事,另一所学校,而且在保险方面,我想说清楚
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我们正在打造一家很棒的、像一家大型保险公司的企业。如果你对革命性的保险感兴趣,请加入 Tesla。我尤其希望能有一些精力充沛的精算师加入。我非常尊重阿夫特·里尔这个职业,你们这些人非常擅长数学。请加入 Tesla,尤其是如果你想改变一些事情,并且对这个行业发展如此缓慢感到恼火,这里就是你该来的地方。我们想要,我们想要革命性的精算师。好的,非常感谢这项练习。那么这个问题还有第二部分:Tesla 保险是否需要参与 Tesla 网约车网络?所以我想我之前在先前的电话会议中回答过这个问题,但等到网约车网络可用时,我们将会提供 Tesla 保险保障。很好
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网络中的奥克斯,这是一种不同类型的保险,因为汽车的用途不同。目前尚未决定是否会要求成功保险的第三方保险。这里可能有一些事情需要我们仔细考虑,但至少 Tesla 保险将会为赖特-哈夫·佩林网络运作运作。非常感谢,鉴于时间的危险,让我们进入在线分析师问答环节。谢谢。我们的第1个问题将来自瑞士信贷的丹·利维。请开始。嗨,下午好,谢谢。阿拉斯加一个关于本季度的问题,然后再问一个更广泛的战略问题。先谈本季度,如果你们能向我们介绍一下毛利率的最新情况:中国在第二季度是否对毛利率具有创造性,而且他有一个想法
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型号为什么的毛利率与弗里蒙特 Model 3 相比相差多远。然后更广泛地谈谈战略,看起来你们的内部采购方式因地区而异。你们在弗里蒙特进行了更多的内部采购,但在上海则更多地依赖供应链。当你们最终启用柏林工厂时,你们预计在他的第一件事上会采取什么方式?你们的得克萨斯工厂又会是什么情况?谢谢。是的,先从毛利率问题说起,我们确实看到中国的毛利率取得了进展,尽管当时采取了定价行动。工厂仍未满负荷运行,因为它还在继续爬坡,所以我们认为那里仍有继续优化成本结构的机会。型号为什么,正如我们上个季度提到的
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在投产的第一季度就实现了盈利,尽管我们因停工而存在效率低下的问题,但我们确实看到车型产品线的利润率有了相当大的改善,而且正如我们之前所说,宽车型的成本结构和 Model 3 的成本结构将会趋同,它们还没有完全达到那里,从车型角度看仍然比 Model 3 略贵,而且尚未达到全面生产,随着类似车型的价格点略高一些,你基本可以据此反推出那张图上的相对毛利率。是的,上海工厂是相当大的工厂,但还,而且那里继续在内部做得越来越多,但真正很有帮助的事情还有,比如以前有大量零部件是在其他地方制造的
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世界各地制造的零部件从世界各地运往上海,而仅仅是在当地采购这些零部件,就会对车辆成本产生巨大影响。我的意思是,本地采购的比例实际上一直在以每月5%到10%的速度上升,从40开始,当时让我们来到这里的比例大约是40%之类的,到今年大概会达到80%,是的,也许会更高。那里也有很多非常强的零部件,以及工厂周边尚帕克非常积极的供应商。是的,我觉得中国的供应商一直极具竞争力,可能是最具转化力的,而且到目前为止,你知道,我们正在谈判,为议价,而且很多业务也授予了德国或欧洲其他地区的许多供应商
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那里都渴望支持正在燃烧的工厂,是的,嗯,jhonny 拥有很棒的汽车工业和供应链,所以实际上我们有大量的、的供应商位于德国,距离工厂大约几百公里。非常感谢,请进入下一个问题。我们的下一个问题来自 Tony Succar Nagi naka,Bernstein 的 Tony Succar Nagi,请继续。好的,谢谢。你们在幻灯片中多次提到,你们对毛利率、对 PTI 利润率的进展感到满意,而且你们预计随着时间推移将实现行业领先的营业利润率。也许你们可以对此稍微说明一下,你知道,豪华品牌厂商的行业领先水平是8%到10%的 PTI,坏鞋较小,为17,面向大众市场的厂商是5%到8%,我们该怎么
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看待这个问题,以及你最终认为 EB 积分会为这一利润率贡献多少,因为我知道你们过去12个月的利润率一直是5%,但剔除 evey 积分后实际上低于1%,所以目前是4、4个百分点的贡献。我们该如何看待最终什么是行业领先的利润率,以及你认为其中有多少来自 EB 积分、监管积分?另外我有一个后续问题,地方。好的,就监管积分而言,我之前提过这一点,你知道,我们管理这项业务,但非常不同,我们在管理业务时并不假定监管积分会以显著方式为未来作出贡献。是的,我确实预计,2020年的 tour 积分收入相较2019年将翻倍,而且它将
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会持续一段时间,但最终,那些谈话会减少。是的,女士,它的见证值得学习,我们收到了,你知道,买家关于尤的卡片。
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获得的联邦税收抵免为零,而竞争方面的说辞是,他们可以获得7,500美元的管道税收抵免,但我们的销售仍然持续表现良好,是的,所以我们看到,生产任何资金的成本持续下降,而经销商是酒吧,即便是S和Act这样的成熟产品,其成本也继续下降,因为我们致力于那个 Model 3;它是我们第二成熟的产品,可以用来……然后在此基础上再叠加埃隆此前讨论的软件收入潜力,尤其是完全自动驾驶;我们目前已经有其中收入确认的部分,你知道,随着我们、随着我们发布更多功能,它将会扩大,然后未来你还可以在此基础上叠加收入
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来自抵达网络的收入,运营费用继续下降,并且占收入的百分比变得更有效率。那里仍有难以置信的机会,是我们着手、我们正在着手的,尤其是客户如何在销售和服务方面与公司互动、他们的流程是什么,以及我们如何把卡片交给他们。因此,我们继续在那里看到效率提升。所以,你知道,就这里的中期而言,我们的模型显示的是,你知道,在他们的负载、负载团队营业利润率水平,而且那里仍继续推动着推动其上升的机会。所以,关于你提到的5%和1%,你知道,我们正在经历一段旅程,而我们正在为政府做这件事。谢谢,如果可以的话,我想再追问一下,伊兰,你谈了很多关于这家公司的使命
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以及,你知道,而且而且而且真正努力推动电动车在全球的普及。那么,你如何看待这种权衡:一方面推动实现行业领先的盈利能力,另一方面又努力让你们的汽车价格更亲民、覆盖面更广?感觉从历史上看,你总是选择这样的道路:我宁愿推动更多增长和更广泛的普及,因为归根结底,那就是公司的使命。Weavin 本季度通过、通过降价稍微想了想;你本可以,你可能维持现有价格,卖出一些车辆并获得更好的利润,但但这是Tesla作为一家公司一直以来所做的选择。那么,我们该如何,你个人如何看待这种权衡,你知道,即使你们能够达到行业领先的利润率,难道不会
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你会倾向于把更多那部分让出来,以更快推动更广泛的采用吗?嗯,我认为,考虑到自动驾驶因素,我们实际上可以两者兼得。我认为我们可以远远超越免费利润率,并且让汽车 V 对越来越多的人来说都负担得起,基本上,你知道,几乎每个人都可以,再加上把自动驾驶因素考虑进去时的所有人。但那确实是一个超级游戏规则改变者,giggity-giggity,我是改变者。是的,但我的意思是,让人们区分两件事很重要:一个是产品所具备的性价比,另一个是可负担性。而且即使你的性价比真的很高,性价比像无限大一样,人们也没有足够的——如果人们今天的银行账户里没有足够的钱买车,那我们就不能,所以那么你
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就只是有这么个很棒的东西,却没人买得起,所以让汽车变得负担得起很重要。如果我们不让汽车变得负担得起,我们就无法完成使命。比如,目前我们所处状况中最困扰我的事情,就是我们的汽车还不够负担得起。我们需要解决这个问题。所以我们正在这方面取得进展,就是以某种稳定的方式不断取得进展。是的,所以,是的,比如我们显然需要,你知道,不能破产,这很重要,因为那样我就会无法完成我们的使命,但我们也没有试图赚取超高利润。显然,你知道,盈利能力大概就是 1% 之类的。是的,这会削减 1% 或 2%,这不——这并不疯狂。上个季度只有 0。
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1%,所以我们希望盈利。比如,我认为我们只是希望略微盈利,并最大限度地实现增长,让汽车尽可能负担得起。这就是我们努力实现的目标。谢谢。请进入下一个问题。我们的下一个问题来自德意志银行的埃马纽埃尔·罗斯莫尔。请讲。嗨,下午好。能否请你们描述一下当前近期的汽车需求环境?现在显然是非常时期。我记得在第一季度时,你们曾表示积压订单创下纪录,我想是在刚刚过去这个季度开始的时候。我在今天发布的材料中没有看到关于新订单、积压订单的任何具体评论,所以你们能否介绍一些情况?需求不是我们的问题,绝对不是。是的,我们确实有一些生产供应链
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挑战,我们目前正努力解决这些挑战。例如,model white,我们采用车身铸造,显然是新技术,要维持速度并继续提高 moto white 铸造的速度一直很棘手。它是一个两件式铸件,还带有一堆以及大约另外半打加装的零件,它将过渡到一体式铸件。事实上,我对此相当、超级兴奋。我们可以有一个工作,世界上最大的铸造压机实际上现在正在弗里蒙特组装,用于 model wire 后车身铸造。它非常巨大,看起来棒极了。所以,比如我们目前遇到困扰的事情不是需求,而只是一大堆供应链和生产问题上的救火工作。好的,好吧,换个说法,抱歉,是的,dori
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关于需求,嘿,那就是忙碌。好的,所以当你说实现 500,000 辆交付已经变得更加困难时,这其实只是最近停工以及其中一些供应动态造成的结果。是的,这——这并非需求方面的情况,实际上只是生产问题。当你拥有一个,比如,你知道,全球供应链时,这相当困难,而这个全球供应链中最有效的部分不管是什么,那就是你的速度,你知道。所以我的意思是,我们为供应链从帽子里变出的兔子数量简直疯狂。团队完成了令人惊叹的工作。所以我认为还要说,是的,我们的一些成本与不得不,你知道,使用大量飞机把零件运来运去有关,因为零件短缺。所以希望使用更少的
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飞机,不过这些事情将改善我们的成本。但目前需求超过供应,所以它会翻转我们现在所处的位置。非常感谢,请问最后一个问题。今天的最后一个问题来自杰富瑞的费利佩·胡·博伊斯。请讲。是的,下午好,谢谢。你提到了几项与体育场有关的内容,增长的制约因素仍然很大程度上是产能,我希望你能说明一下你们目前正在建设的 10 亿座工厂的范围。那里会有与预计产出的组装量相符的少量电池产能吗?而且,如果没有,我们是否应该能够从欧洲采购你们所需的电池?你们是否必须从欧洲以外向伊朗进口电池,以确保生产
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和燃烧?好的,除了会有本地电芯生产,而且那将满足鲍恩工厂的需求之外,我们不能对此说太多。但当然是一个——我的意思是,我知道那——那已经足够直截了当了。我想,只是补充你之前关于人才和人员所说的话。是的,电芯的所有领域也是如此。是的,供应链、制造、材料、设计。我们正在解决这个问题,而且我们工作——我们像对待已经解决的任何其他问题一样对待它。我们将解决这个问题,并让有才华的人在我们解决这个问题时加入我们。是的,而且,比如——我对一群有才华的人最大的担忧可能就是柏林,因为欧洲的劳动力、劳动力流动性没有那么低。我会建议改变
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他像计算机一样,某人想要离职加入另一家公司,有时我不得不花 6 个月休棉假。那叫园丁,基本上就是在花园里闲待着。而且,比如,这并不是对人们时间的良好利用。是的,如果他们想待在花园里,那没问题,但他们不应该非得这么做。谢谢。我的意思是,那些是了解欧洲的人会知道在谈论什么。菲利帕,我们有全面运作吗?没问题。非常感谢。好的,非常感谢大家参加这次电话会议,也感谢他们提出的所有好问题,我们将在大约 3 个月后再次与你们交流。是的,也许会更早,通过电池拍摄。哦,谢谢。
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I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker mr. Martin vieta Senior Director of Investor Relations please go ahead sir you Thank You Shari and good afternoon everyone and welcome to Tesla second quarter 2020 Q&A webcast I'm joined today by Elon Musk Zachary Kirk horn and a number of other executives are cute the result were announced at about 1:15 p. m.
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Pacific time in the update that we published at the same link as this webcast during this code we will discuss our business outlook and make forward-looking statements these comments are based on our predictions and expectations as of today actual events and results could differ materially due to a number of risks and uncertainties including those mentioned in our most recent filings with the SEC during the question and answer portion of today's call please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up please press star 1 now if you'd like to join the question queue but Before we jump into TNA Ilan has some opening remarks you want thank you first of all I'd like to thank the test team for exceptional execution in the second quarter despite tremendous
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difficulties they've done an incredible job and it's an honor to work with such a great team I mean there were so many so many challenges to too numerous to name but that they got it done and just what a great group to work with like I said it's just an honor to work with such a great team so and as a result we were able to achieve a fourth consecutive profit profitable quarter and although the automotive industry was down about 30 percent year-over-year in the first half a year we managed to grow deliveries in the first half the year so despite a massive industry to industry decline we actually went up we're also very excited to announce that we're going to be building our next Giga factory in Texas it's going to be right near Austin or not but it'll
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be about I'll just go into a bit of detail on this and then actually a lot of questions but the look at the location is five minutes from our Ocean International Airport and 15 minutes from downtown Austin is about 2,000 acres we're going to make make it a factory that it's going to be stunning it's right on the Colorado River so we're actually going to have we have a boardwalk where there will be a hiking biking trail it's going to basically be an ecological paradise birds and the trees butterflies fishing the stream and there we open to the public as well so not not closed and only Tesla so if anyone's interested in working at giggity-giggity Texas the engineering production whatever the case may be please let us know this is we're going to be doing
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a major major factory there and it's also where we'll be doing is we'll be doing cyber truck there the Tesla semi and we'll be doing model 3 and why for the eastern half of North America now at the same time I want to say we will continue to grow in California so would we expect California to do model S&X for worldwide consumption and 3 and why for the western half of North America and we think probably also the Tesla Roadster future program would also make sense in California so I think this is a nice split between Texas and California and you know to emphasize will continue growing California but will be creating a massive factory and cyber truck and semi programs in Texas so and I also want to just say do a shout out to to Tulsa and and just say thank
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you very much for to the the Tulsa team economic development team and the governor I really I was super impressed the hotels team was super impressed and we will for sure strongly consider a Tulsa for future expansion of Tesla down the road let's see is anything more we want to say about there's a lot of information so though these guys are I'm sure there were lots of questions we've already started work on the facility so set some initial construction work so it's already underway started this weekend let's see moving on to other subjects solar we recently adjusted the pricing of our retrofit solar so Tesla solar is the lowest class solar in the United States and we added the lowest lowest cost guarantee and a money back guarantee so we're very confident
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that people will will love our solar product whether it's the solar retrofit or solar roof a solar is now thetan cheaper than the US average after the federal federal tax credit otezla silat now costs a dollar forty nine per watt and it's a very simple highly automated single click experience so definitely think about Tesla whether you want a new roof or for Tesla solar roof or you want solar on your existing roof either way where the grow the company to go to and then you also get a power wall and have energy independence and be your own utility so I think that that part is really coming together and it's only going to get better later this year so it's just very excited about that that's a business potential on the you know if additional technology
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stuff we introduced the first production car with more than 400 miles range so the current Tesla Model S now has an EPA certified range of 402 miles I mean basically can drive from LA to San Francisco non-stop and still have some mild miles left over when you arrive and and this is at highway speeds so you're just talking after anything drive slowly or anything you drive it you just drive normally and you know grow very very long distances and then for full self driving we launched traffic lights and stop signs and we continue to prove that to make them more robust and we're currently testing also driving software for intersections and city streets and narrow streets so I personally test the the latest alpha build of full self-driving software when I
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when I Drive my car and it is really I think profoundly better than people realize yeah really profoundly better it's like amazing so it's almost getting to the point where I can go from my house to work with no interventions despite going through construction and widely varying situations so this is why I'm very confident about full self-driving functionality being complete by the end of this year it isn't because I'm literally driving it in conclusion at like again say thanks for the hard work that tells the team achieving our first full year of profitability in the company history was incredibly difficult and just as a result the hard work of a lot of people from Tesla worldwide and and yet just think about the next the next 12 to 18 months we'll have
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three new factories in place if things are looking great with a gig of all in and what we'll have cyber truck semi roadster full self-driving there's so much to be excited about it's really hard to kind of fit into this coal but the sheer amount of hard core engineering especially on the you know autonomy and the people manufacturing engineering front is mind-blowing and then of course is battery day which is you know coming up pretty soon and I think that's that's really going to surprise people by just how how much there is to see so with that thanks again for your support in our long term mission and we were looking forward to having a great journey with you to create amazing products and continue scaling it and yeah this is a I think I've never been
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more optimistic or excited about the future of Tesla and the history of company thank you thank you very much and I think our CEO feels like a record corn has some remarks as well yeah thanks Martin I want to start by thanking our employees customers and suppliers for your support over the last quarter in particular to the tesla team i couldn't be more impressed with the hard work and the resiliency that you all have shown on that income overall as Elon mentioned we achieved our fourth sequential quarter of profitability this is despite a significant impact to our financials as a result of suspended operations of our US factories and field operations around the world to ensure the business remains healthy we took temporary action to reduce costs including
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expenses related to personnel and non-critical path projects the direct cost savings that the direct cost impact of the temporary shutdown was largely offset by these cost savings actions although the costs were concentrated in cogs and the cost reductions were on both cogs and operating expenses on automotive gross margin excluding regulatory credits if this reduced sequentially from 20% to 18.
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7% this sequential reduction is fully attributed to idle capacity charges in lower operational efficiency due to the various shutdowns despite these charges we continue to make progress reducing our costs particularly on model why and Fremont and model 3 and Shanghai given the global macroeconomic context we made the decision in q2 to pass through savings to customers around the world on some of our products with the release of stoplight and stop sign recognition and response we recognized 48 million of deferred revenue in the period the full profit impact on our P&L is less than half of this due to cost associated with FSD computer retrofits in the field regulatory credit revenue increased sequentially to 428 million while difficult to forecast precisely
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our best estimate of 2020 credit revenue is roughly double that of 2019 services and other margin improved yet again marking the fifth sequential quarter of improvement in the energy business our megapack product achieved its first quarterly profit we remained for production constrained in this business and are continuing to work towards building additional capacity and our solar installation business was impacted by permit office closures limiting installation volume stock based compensation almost entirely by an expense related to the next tranche of the CEO grant as well as early lifting of the first tranche which is reflected in SGA within operating expenses on cash flows our cash balance increased to our highest level yet of 8.
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6 billion which included free cash flows of over 400 million this is a strong result on its own despite an increase in capital expenses associated with Shanghai and Berlin as well as movements in working capital a few things to note on working capital particularly accounts receivables while our a our balance is usually about 20% of revenue it can fluctuate depending upon a number of factors first overall less than 30% of our receivables is associated with new car sales second due to payment terms associated with financing and enterprise customers settlement timelines for certain methods of cash payments and geographic mix of our deliveries our cash balance and associated receivables are impacted significantly by how many cars are delivered in the final
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weeks and days of the quarter third roughly 40% of the balance is attributed to payment terms on regulatory credit sales and statutory evey incentive programs both of which have been increasing customer deposits reduced slightly as well note that as we transition to lower order fees across the world the average deposit per order will continue to reduce driving down this balance as we look forward Tesla was able to navigate through queue to do - our agile and dynamic culture we will continue to appropriately mail enjoy cash flows through cost optimization and close working capital management this is key as we remain focused on expanding production scaling our operations and preparing for the launch of three new factories over the next year and a half thank
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you very much let's go to questions from institutional investors first the question number one is s Tesla continues its journey towards the long-term goal of selling 20 million units per year what are the most important vehicle programs that will drive building growth over the next three to five years beyond model three why and the cyber truck cheaper smaller versions of three and why or region specific vehicles or anything else I don't think we can cut the comment on you know our detailed part roadmap beyond what's announced because I agreed we want to reserve that for product launches but it would be reasonable to assume that we would make a compact vehicle of some kind you know and probably a higher capacity Astra vehicle of some kind you know these
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are likely things at some point but I do think there's a long way to go with the three and why and with cyber truck and semi and you know so it's a long way to go with those I will do the obvious things okay the second question from this additional is what is your vision for software at Tesla what opportunities do you see for monetizing the installed base other than bio FSP and right now by fraud by far FST is just overwhelmingly the most important thing you know I think the the upgrading of the fleet to full self-driving essentially with an over there software update I mean may go down as the biggest asset value increase in history as a step change you know about the maybe the something bigger of it it certainly would be one of the biggest I can't think
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of anything bigger so sort of those overnight you know at a million defined exactly when it happens and when it's allowed in various regulatory jurisdictions you'd have like kind of a few million cars suddenly becoming five times more viable or something like that it's only five times higher utility it to go from like twelve hours a week of utility something like that or of that it doesn't hours are used to sixty like that you know so it may else is pretty small by comparison now when things do become full self-driving so what if we were going to do in the car well I guess they probably want to do productivity and entertainment of some kind you know for traveese play games and do work well that that's best in the future yeah we're already putting some
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games and stuff on the car just for fun yeah yeah we have been experimenting on that and so the fsd remains by far and away the biggest opportunity in the new environment but we're putting the plumbing in place to be ready to scale other areas when the time is right so premium connectivity subscription is something that we've put in place and the ability to upgrade your vehicle through the app for example on acceleration boosts or upgrading a standard range model 3 to a standard plus adding rear heated seats so these are things that we have and we're continuing to get feedback from the field and other things that we can launch and will trickle those in with time yeah but they're all very tiny compared with like the trailers like the step change to full
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self-driving depending upon high calculated is probably worth north you know at least $100,000 per car so as blood software you have so yeah in the app store or whatever yeah and thank you the third question is also about autopilot what are the most important upcoming self-driving milestones and how do you think about timing well um the actual major milestone that's happening right now is really transition of the autonomy system of the cars like AI if you will from thinking about things in AI code like two and a half D it's like big finger blue but it's big steak like isolated pictures and and during image recognition on the on pictures that are harshly correlated in time but not not very well and transitioning to kind of a 4d where you know it's like
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your which is video essentially you get you're thinking about the world in three dimensions and look at the fourth dimension being time so that that architecture change which is been underway for some time but has not really been rolled out to anyone in the production fleet is what really matters for fulfill driving so what you know what we've been doing thus far is really just been with like 2d mostly 2d and Alexa pop no well correlated in time so it just you're just it's just hard to convey just how much better a fully 4d system would work it does work it's capable of things that it that if you just look looking at things as individual pictures as opposed to video it looks to basically like you could go from like individual pictures to surround video
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this is a fundamental so the call will seem to have just like a giant improvement have I never probably roll it out later this year but you know be able to do your traffic lights stop turns crops everything you know pretty much and then it will be a long march of nines essentially how many nines of reliability are okay so it definitely way better than human but how much better than human does need to be so that that's actually going to be the real work is just a massive amount of work with each kind of order of magnitude of reliability but you'll see a perfect happen and if you plot the points on the curve it'll be kind of obvious where it's headed ái in general I think is something you know I've been saying this famous AI drum for a decade we should
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be concerned about where AI is going the people I see being the most wrong about AI are the ones who are very smart because they can't imagine that a computer could be way smarter than them but that's the flaw in their logic they're just way down more than they think they are thank you and the next question from his additional investor is please may you update us on alien dreadnought how has your thinking evolved and what is needed in order to get closer to fundamental physical limits or bring a massive amount of effort into manufacturing engineering the Machine O'Lakes machine there's probably 1,000 percent maybe 10,000 percent more engineering required for the factory than for the product itself so we're starting making amazing progress I mean you know
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battery and powertrain factory Giga factory Nevada is you know on an alien driven work version 0.
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5 something that God just you know starting to approach version 1 we're getting way better at making cars you can see that in Giga Shanghai you'll see that even more with the Berlin and we're really changing the design of the car in order to make it more manufacturable the the fundamental architecture of model Y will be different in Berlin it may look the same but the internals will be quite different and fundamentally more efficient architectural II then than what we've done to date fake juju like to add to that yeah I was going to extend on that side I think part of the alien dreadnought concept is not just automation but minimizing the number of process steps and complexity involved in the manufacturing system which involves really integrating design
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and manufacturing across some like when the raw materials enter the factory to finish goods exited and we're learning so much through doing that vertical integration is extremely important for this but the supply chain if you put like a GPS tracker on a molecule from winter cuff mind to miner was in a usable product it would look insane we were to be like wow weird around the world like six times so with vertical integration maybe you're going to like around the world once you know the huge improvement or not even like half oh I like a happy get vertical integration like Rapala gauge an order of magnitude improvement so yeah it's Romulan I think the focus for us is increasing the capex and efficiency this is something that we've been working very hard
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for the past three years you can see that we can build new factories for less amount of money and much faster yeah those things go together gets better it's a better factory for less money in less time and as money means less time there so that's a great advantage and also reducing this and this still is a lot the amount of inefficiencies we want every operation to add value to the vehicle mmm value meaning moving the atoms closer to the final state you know so we do not want any robot that just moves things yes proportionate in fact it's like we're going to be super respectful of people's labor if we're asking somebody to do something are we sure it's useful are we asking them to spend their time in a way that is respectful of their time but but it's
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like wow the potential for improvement is this tremendous and like that's why we clear here at Tesla we love manufacturing it's awesome and I really think more smart people's to be working on manufacturing they lay one more people yeah we we we do if people are interested in designing new lines and trying to do things different you know Tesla's got a job for you and now we've got jobs everywhere it's not only in California there we got just in China and Berlin in Austin Texas yeah and in California if you so the plenty of exciting places and all these places will do original work and challenging yet meaningful work absolutely it's actually extremely exciting for and fulfilling to design new production systems and I think that you know for some reason
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for a long time and and I think people didn't think that manufactures is sort of a thought of manufacturing is like oh it's is porous I'm boring just making copies whatever but actually this far more opportunity for innovation in manufacturing than in the product itself order magnitude so but like if there's one thing that comes out of this cool it's like hey if you want to help us invent amazing new manufacturing techniques and and have input into the product itself it's not like you just get tossed the product and say hey make this this product and it's a kind of a lousy design you'd get if you're manufacturing you get to change the product design and say hey if it was the product you asking me manufacturers dumb it was like great let's fix it you know
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so I it you know I if you work on manufacturing engineering so you're just get force-fed a turd sandwich you get to change the product design so you know it's a super exciting and and we evolved the lines even after their vote this rapid evolution of the production system so and there's nothing more rewarding than going from zero cars an hour to yeah five thousand cars a week or thousand cars a day yeah so you know like the long-term sustainable advantage of Tesla I think will be up manufacturing thank you very much and the last question from this additional investor is how many vehicles can Tesla produce in Texas right now zero but long-term a lot top biggest property yeah it's based architecture okay and now we can shift to retail investor questions
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on save calm the first one is Tesla energy seems widely ignored by Wall Street despise despite a long comments about growth rate exceeding automotive could this not share more detail on current or planned projects to help investors better understand the business outlook how disruptive is Tesla's auto bidder technology yeah kara says I think long term Tesla energy will be of roughly the same size as tells automotive so I mean the energy business collectively is bigger than the automotive business so you say like you know how big is the energy sector bigger than automotive so and in order to achieve a sustainable energy future we have to have sustainable energy generation which i think is going to be primarily solar and you know set foot followed by wind
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and those intimate anied to have a lot of batteries to store the solar energy because when does noise blow and the Sun doesn't shine so so there's like three elements of the sustainable energy future wind and solar sustainable energy generation battery storage and electric transport both three things and the mission of Tesla is to accelerate the sustainable energy so I can emphasize enough the defect like yeah the bad battery and solar will both be enormous and they kind of have to be in order to have a sustainable future and we've got a great product roadmap on that front as well so we're going trip in the mega pack it's very well received talk about that um yeah but I think the mega pack is has represented itself and is an integrated rapidly deployable
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you know grid-tied storage battery of mega megawatt-hour scale we're working with utilities large and small you know not just utilities but also just like micro grid and project developers of all type and building our own projects where it makes sense and there's there's a lot of demand for the product and we're growing the production rates as fast as we can for that product and then on auto bidder Auto bidders is basically autopilot for grid tied batteries it's an autonomous energy market participation system that you know does high frequency trading and ensure that that's a bad word sorry sorry it frees to Treasury called front-running yeah we're not doing badly anything like that it's ensuring that the battery is doing everything you can to manage
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the credit identity of renewals renewables and just grid intermittency of all kinds I mean you know people turn their lights on off power plants to turn on and off yeah factories ramped up and down and batteries are great just to solve those problems yeah it just it does grid stabilization you know the millisecond level exactly so it just ensures that things are super smooth it's like it you know a UPS an uninterruptible power supply of enormous size but just get just ensure that this grid has smooth sailing and then the batteries you know the computers like all interact with each other and make sure that they're working together to make the grid desperate and this can be done quick with the power rules and and the mega packs and the power packs all working
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together and interacting with the party systems as well yeah essentially or distributed it does vote yeah yeah I mean we've yeah oh is it necessary in order to solve the sustainable energy problem yeah you can't plan power plants on the hourly scale in a renewable world you need to plan you need to optimize them on a minute-by-minute scale and that's what we're doing yeah the real limitation on Tesla growth is is cell production at an affordable price but that's the best rule limit so you know that's why we're where we're going to talk about a lot more about this on battery day because that this is the fundamental scaling constraint and at any part of that at that supply chain or pressing of at the cell level will will be the limiting factor so you know
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whatever it may be anywhere from mining to refining as many steps or refining to the cathode and anode formation cell formation whatever the choke point is that will set the root of the growth rate and so you know we we expect to expand our business with Panasonic with C ATL with LG possibly with others and you know and there's a lot more to say on that fraud on better day thank you and the second question is not it is time to bring the Tesla semi to volume production can you share more detail on production plans what weakly production rate is considered volume production and when does this like spec to reach that rate okay so what's our production next year as we announced it before I'm personally very care about the project I can't wait we do have a
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few trucks that keep driving around and like keep delivering cars but we're going to accelerate that I want to be clear that the first few units we will use ourselves and Tesla to carry our own Freight probably must be between Fremont and Reno which is a fantastic test route we want to prove that we have very good reliability and so far the early units do have it but we'll we'll do that at them larger scale and we have also promised some early you to some long-term very patient and supportive customers and we'll do that now we have more self coming up in next year as you know just pointed out so we can increase the diversity of the portfolio it didn't make sense up to now to do it yeah but we'll be ready and that's maybe have a bias very excited about
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this and we have a lot of very unique technology that we're always dreaming about that we will be putting into that semi it will be just awesome yeah and just there's like two general classes of cell there's like iron phosphate and then the nickel based nickk nickk nickk obey cells have higher energy density so a longer range obviously those are needed for something like a semi where you're every every unit of mass that you add in battery pack you have to subtract in cargo so it's very important to have a mass efficient and long-range pack for full batteries however what we're seeing with our that passenger vehicles is that our powertrain efficiency and higher efficiency drag coefficient like basically all of the things that our HVAC going to a heat pump
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basically our total vehicle efficiency has gotten good enough with a Model 3 for example that we actually are comfortable having an iron phosphate battery pack in model 3 in China and you know that that'll be in volume production later this year so we think that you know getting a range that is in the high to hundreds you know basically but we think you probably get a range of almost 300 miles with an iron phosphate pack taking into account a whole bunch of of power train and other vehicle efficiencies and that frees up a lot of capacity for things like the Tesla semi and and in other projects that require higher energy density so yeah so you have like to to supply chains that you can tap into your iron phosphate or or nickel we use very little cobalt
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in our system already and that's that may trend you know to zero long so it's really about nickel thank you and the next question is Tesla recently decided not to produce standard range version of model why no longer office offers the standard range Model S or X and has announced ramping of the semi does this shift from smaller pack vehicle suggests that Tesla is not battery constrained as in the past what are the biggest constraints now well I just like to reify them size any mining companies out there please mine more nickel okay wherever you are in the world please mine more nickel and and don't wait for nickel to go back to some long some high point that you experienced some five years ago whatever go for efficient you know as environmentally friendly
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nickel mining at high volume if Tesla will give you a giant contract for a long period of time if you mine nickel efficiently and in an environmentally sensitive way so hopefully this message goes all mining companies please get nickel with regard to passenger vehicles I think the new normal for range is going to be just in US EPA rip terms you know approximately 300 miles so I think people will really come to expect that as you know some number close to 300 miles as as normal you know that that's a standard expectation because you do need to take into account like you know is a very hot outside or very cold or you know are you driving tall mountain with a full load I and and it's a you know people that when I have a you know gets the destination with
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like 10 miles range though they want some regional reasonable margin so I think 300 is going to be really close to 300 going to be a new normal quote 500 kilometres basically roughly thank you the next question on the insurance what is the holdup for Tesla insurance outside of California will you release numbers from that part of the business will title insurance be required to participate in the Tesla ride-hailing Network as a driver sure um yeah we were joking before the call then we get the quarterly insurance question that touch response a calm here we are working super hard on insurance I'll go into a little bit more detail here than I have on the past but currently we have a product in California as I've described before it's been quite well received
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and I would largely describe it as a fairly standard insurance product with elements of it that are unique to our cars that you can think of it as version 1 of Tesla insurance yep versions are for night is it getting at least zero at night yes but what we're working on now is we can call it version two or we can call it the first version of our telematics product yeah and so really ultimately where we want to get to with Tesla insurance is to be able to use the data that's captured in the car in the driving profile of the person in the car to be able to assess correlations and probabilities of crash and be able then to assess a premium on a monthly basis for that customer and what makes this very exciting for us is the amount of data that is available
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with the customers permission to use is is not available in any other product or any other vehicle in the world you this gives us a unique advantage in terms of information and we have a decision point here where we could take the California product and replicate that into other states or we could delay delay going into additional states and instead put more effort into the telematics side of this and we chose the latter and where we are now is nearly complete with the risk and cost analysis associated with the first version of the telematics product we hope to be filing that in a handful of states with regulators very shortly and assuming that regulatory approvals go smoothly we hope to have this in a handful of states by the end of the year and and
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then it will continue to file for approval in additional states with regulatory approval there will continue to roll this out nationwide as quickly as we can and then that product as we continue to collect more data and we iterate on it will be version 2 version 3 etc as we continue to refine that yeah I mean at the heart of being competitive with insurance is what is the accuracy of your information like are you dealing with like are you forced to assess people statistically looking in the rearview mirror or can you assess people individually looking ahead with with smart projections and inform the driver that that of how they may reduce their what what actions they can take to reduce their insurance as I could learning to it's like if okay you're driving
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too fast you're you know doing this that or the other thing it's like if you if you want to pay more for insurance you can but if you want to pay less you know then please don't drive from so crazy then I then people can make choice like okay they want to drive aggressively in the case no view higher higher insurance or there won't be you're more careful in that the driving and it'd be Pepi less it's also actually very helpful for us to have a feedback loop to see what is driving insurance expense lot of it is just it's like yeah like little fender-bender and the net Center vendor because of the way that the body collision repair is being done you know cost like fifteen thousand dollars or something crazy and like we'll have and and then we can actually
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adjust the design of the car and adjust how the repair is done to actually have the fundamental cost of solving that problem be less so this has helped us on a whole bunch of facility things that we were doing basically without realizing it which is this is a problem which in general with insurance it's like so if the insurance is like all-you-can-eat then it the feedback loop for improvement is we so this gives us a great feedback loop for improvement gives us basically a fundamentally better insurance product I'd also like to say the spirit of recruiting because if there's one thing I'd like to come out of this call it's that a lot of great people want to join Tesla that's the no 1 thing I'd like another school and on the insurance front I want to clear
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we're building a great like a major insurance company if you're interested in revolutionary insurance please join Tesla I would love to have some high energy actuaries especially I have great respect with after real profession your guys are great at math please join Tesla especially if you want to change things and you're annoyed by how slow the industry is this is the place to be we want we want revolutionary actuaries ok thank you very much for the exercise that so there was a second part of this question will Tesla insurance be required to participate in in the Tesla ride-hailing Network and so I think I've answered this before in Prior calls but by the time the ride hailing network is available we will Tesla insurance coverage will be provided great
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oaks who are in this network it's a different type of insurance because of the use of the car it's not decided whether third party insurance for successful insurance will be required there might be some things we need to think through there but it Tesla insurance at least we'll be working working for the right-half Palin Network it thank you very much and in dangerous of time let's go to the Q&A of analysts online thank you our first question will come from Dan levy with Credit Suisse please go ahead hi good afternoon thank you Alaska a question on the quarter and then just question more broadly on strategy just on the quarter if you could give us an update on gross margin was China the creative to gross margin in the second quarter and he has an idea
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of how far off model why gross margin was versus Fremont model three and then just more broadly on strategy seems like your approach to in sourcing is varying by region you're in sourcing a lot more in Fremont but you're relying a lot more on the supply chain in Shanghai what do you expect your approach to be on his first thing when you eventually open up Berlin and what your Texas Factory is going to be thank you yep just to start with the gross margin questions we did see progress on gross margins in China and that was despite pricing action that was taken the factory is still not running at full capacity yet as it continues to ramp so we think there's a continued opportunity to optimize the cost structure there model why as we mentioned last quarter
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was profitable in its first quarter of production and despite the inefficiencies that we had due to the shutdown we did see a pretty substantial improvement in the model line margin and it is as we said before the model wide cost structure and model 3 cost structure will converge that they're not quite there model wise still slightly more expensive than model 3 and it's not yet at full production and with model like carrying a slightly higher price point you can kind of back into the map there on the relative gross margin yeah in the shanghai factories pretty big factory but yet and there it's continuing to do more and more internally but it's also that the thing is really helping is like there were previously a ton of parts that were made in other parts
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of the world that were being shipped to shanghai from every part of the world and just locally sourcing those components makes a massive difference to the cost vehicle and I mean the proportion of local sourcing has literally been rising it like five to ten percent a month you get from 40 it was like 40 percent of getting us here something like that it'll be like 80 percent yeah idea this year maybe more there is also a lot very strong there component and very eager suppliers around the factory in Champak yeah I feel like the suppliers in China have been extremely competitive possibly the most converter and so far you know we're in negotiations with for bargain and was awarded a lot of business also a lot of suppliers and in Germany or the rest of Europe
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there are eager to support the factory burning yea well jhonny has a great automotive industry and supply chain so actually a ton of of our suppliers are in Germany within like a few hundred kilometres of the factory thank you very much let's go to the next question please our next question will come from Tony Succar Nagi naka Tony Succar Nagi with Bernstein please go ahead yes thank you you mentioned in the slide deck a couple of times that you were pleased with gross margin with PTI margin progress and you expected to achieve industry-leading operating margins over time maybe you could shed a little light on that you know industry leading for luxury vendors is 8 to 10 percent PTI for poor shoes smaller 17 for mass market vendors it's 5 to 8 what do
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we think about and how much ultimately do you believe that EB credits will contribute to that margin because I know your margins been 5% over the last 12 months but it's actually less than 1% excluding evey credit so it's a four four point contribution right now how do we think about ultimately what industry-leading margins are and how much of that you think is coming from EB credits regulatory credits and I have a follow up place sure I've mentioned this before in terms of regulatory credit you know we manage the business but so different we don't manage the business with the assumption that regulatory credits will contribute in a significant way to the future yeah I do expect for the tour credit revenue to double in 2020 relative to 2019 and it will
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continue for some period of time but eventually the talk that's will reduce yes'm its witness worth learning that we receive you know buyers about card in the u.
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received zero federal tax credit whereas made about competi rhetoric that they get a $7,500 pipe tax credit and yet our sales haven't continued to do well it yeah and so what we see is a continued decline in the cost to produce any funds and distributors are bars that cost of even for mature products like the s and the Act continues to come down as we work on that model 3 which is our second most mature product that can use to come you then layer on top of that as Elon was discussing earlier the potential for software based revenue particularly full self-driving that there's the revenue recognition portion of that that we have today you know that will expand as we as we release more features and then you can layer on top of that in the future revenue
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from arrival in network operating expenses continue to come down and become more efficient as a percentage of revenue there's still incredible opportunity there that we work we're working on particularly on how customers interact with the company from sales and service and in what their flow is and how we get cards to them so we continue to see efficiencies there so you know in the medium term here what our modeling shows is you know in their load load teams operating margin level and I think there continues to drive the opportunity to drive that up so here your point on the 5% in the 1% you know we're on a bit of a journey here and we're doing to the government thank you and if I could just follow up Ilan you've talked a lot about the mission of the
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company and in you know and and and really trying to drive evie adoption globally so how do you think about that trade-off between driving towards industry-leading profitability yet trying to make your cars more affordable and broader it feels like historically you've always picked the path of I'd rather Drive more growth and more adoption because ultimately that's the mission of the company and Weavin thought a little bit this quarter with with price reductions you could have you probably kept priced where it is sold some units and had better profits but but that's been an ongoing choice that Tesla's a company has made so how do we how do you personally think about that trade-off between you know even if you were to get to industry-leading margins wouldn't
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you be inclined to give more of that back to drive a greater adoption more quickly well I think we actually achieved both when you factor in autonomy I think we can go way beyond is free margins and and have a car V affordable to more and more people and essentially you know almost everyone Plus everyone when factoring in autonomy but that was really a mega game-changer giggity-giggity I'm changer yeah but I mean it is important for people to get to distinguish between two things there's value for money that a product has and then as affordability and and even if you rail value for money and have value for money like infinitive people do not have enough if people do not have enough money in the bank counts to buy the car today so we cannot so then you
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just have this like awesome thing and nobody can buy so it is important to make the car affordable that we will not succeed in our mission if we do not make cars affordable like the thing that bugs me the most about where we are right now is that our cars are not affordable enough we need to fix that so we are making progress in that regard and just sort of steadily making progress yeah so yeah like we need to you know not go bankrupt obviously that's important because I will fail in our mission but we're not trying to be super profitable either obviously you know profitability is like 1% or something yeah this will cut 1 or 2% it's not it's not crazy last quarter was only 0.
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1% so we want to be profitable like I think just we want to be like slightly profitable and maximize growth and make the cars that as affordable as possible that's what we're trying to achieve thank you let's go to the next question please our next question will come from emmanuel Rossmore with deutsche bank please go ahead hi good afternoon could you please characterize the current near-term demand environment for your vehicles these obviously unusual times I think back in q1 you had indicated record backlog I guess at the beginning of this past quarter I haven't seen any specific comments about new orders a backlog in the release today so can you give us some color demand is not our problem definitely not yeah we do have some production supply chain
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challenge that challenges we're trying to solve right now for example model white we were body Casting obvious new technology it's been tricky to maintain rate and keep growing the rate for moto white casting which is it's a two piece casting with a bunch and about a half a dozen other parts that are added on that will transition to a one-piece casting in fact I'm pretty super excited about this we can have a job the world's biggest casting press is getting assembled right now actually in Fremont for the model wire rear body casting it's enormous and looks awesome so it's like our the things that are troubling us right now I'm not demand that they are just a bunch of firefighting on supply chain and production issues okay well to put it sorry yeah dori
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about demand hey that's what busy okay so when you're saying achieving 500,000 deliveries has has become more difficult which is really just a function of the recent shutdowns and some of these in a supply dynamics yeah it's it's not it's not true with the man it's really just a production issue it's pretty hard when you've got like you know I global supply chain and it's kind of whatever the most effective part of that global supply chain is that's your rate you know so I mean the number of rabbits we've had to pull out of a hat for supply chain is insane teams done an amazing job so I think it also say yeah some of our costs were related to having to you know use a lot of airplanes to get parts around because of parts shortages so hopefully use fewer
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airplanes but stuff that will improve our costs but it's a demand exceeds supply right now so it flips where we are right now thank you very much and the last question please our last question today will come from Felipe who boys with Jeffries please go ahead yes good afternoon and thank you you mentioned a few ties into the stadium the constraint to growth is very capacity still and I was hoping you could clarify the scope of the billion plants you're building right now will there be little battery capacity consistence with the amount of assembly volume you expect to come out of there in and and if not we should be able to source your battery requirements out of Europe would you have to import batteries from outside Europe to Iran to ensure production
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and burning okay we can't say too much about this except that where there will be local cell production and that will that will serve the needs of the Bowen factory but sure is a that I mean I know that's that's straightforward enough I think just adding to what you said earlier about talent and people yes yet like the same goes in all areas of cell yes supply chain manufacturing materials design we are solving this problem and it we work we're treating it like any other problems that we have solved we will solve this problem and give talented people to join us as we solve this problem yes and like - my biggest concern for gang of talented people is just probably Berlin because the labor labor mobility in Europe is not as low I would recommend changing
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is he like computer somebody wants to leave and join another company sometimes I have to spend six months on cotton leaf it's called gardener hang out in the garden basically and like this doesn't this is not a good use of people's time yeah if they want to hang on the garden that's fine but they shouldn't have to thank you I mean those are know Europe will know what are talking about Phillipa do we have a full operation it's fine thank you very much ok thank you very much for everyone for joining this call and thank you for all their good questions and we'll speak to you again in about three months yeah maybe sooner with battery take oh thanks