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And we are live for a new episode of The Electric Podcasts.
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I am Fred Lambert, your host, and as usual, I'm joined by Seth Wintra.
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How you doing, Seth?
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I'm a little jet lag.
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Yeah, we're going to talk about why that is the case in just a second.
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about them mid-show.
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But yeah, Seth is a little jet lag because he just came back from San Diego, where he
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checked out the Silverado EV Trail Boss.
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So first of all, I know your article is not out yet and everything, but can you give
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us a little bit of first impressions?
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Yeah, I got back on the red eye last night, so I haven't really had much time to write.
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But it's a Silverado.
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It's got that really big 205 kilowatt-hour battery, absurd range in the 450s.
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We had actually got a chance to tow a Polaris, which is also a big vehicle around town.
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And you almost forget that it's towing.
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It's just so good at adjusting for the extra weight.
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So I wouldn't say it's better than the GMC Sierra or the Hummer in terms of luxury.
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That's just not how Chevy rolls, but it does have some nice additions to it.
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It's kind of a specced out version.
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I don't have the price in front of me, but it's a little bit higher than the other
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To take it off-roading, I hate to get down on Chevy, but their off-roading adventures
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aren't quite as exotic as Rivian.
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So we went on these trails.
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We're not as used to making them, too.
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There's not a lot of Chevy off-roading vehicles.
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Yeah, so we went up.
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We were in San Diego.
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We went up the mountains.
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We went on these dirt trails, but we went pretty slow.
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We saw some big potholes and wheels got off the ground and the bottom rub, but we didn't
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There wasn't any harrowing moments.
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But it handled it great and then got back on the road.
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We also charged the Tesla Superchargers, which was a first for a non-Tesla or any
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So that was interesting.
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The trail bus does not have native DACs, but we used it in an adapter.
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So the peak rate was limited by the adapter, I assume.
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I mean, it was one of those things where they don't really understand that when you
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show up at a Supercharger with 86% charge, you're not really going to test it that
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Although we did get over 100 kilowatt hours, or sorry, 100 kilowatts.
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So it was respectable, for sure.
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Just getting over 100 kilowatts at over 80% state of charge, you don't see that in a Tesla,
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That's pretty good.
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And that's the factor, that 205 kilowatt hour battery.
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I mean, that's the thing, like Silverado's a great thing, that the mid-gate thing is
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awesome if you're carrying big kayaks and stuff.
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But the real game changer is that 205 kilowatt hour battery, just nobody else
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And that's going to be a game changer for some people.
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If you need the capacity, you have it, which is not the case in virtually all of their
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Especially if you're towing, right?
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Towing and kind of hard work.
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We're going to talk...
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We're going to start a little bit with some Tesla stuff that we're going to preview
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the delivery result that's going to come out next week.
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But then we're going to talk a little bit policies that Tesla is company about.
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V14, FSDV14 is apparently coming as soon as next week.
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And then Lucid Gravity, we have some good news on that front.
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Some financing news.
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And then as usual, as we often do in the hand on some China news, a lot of Chinese
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And yeah, at the end, we're going to have some time to talk to you guys.
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So if you guys have any questions for us, you can put them in the comments section
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We're going to get to it at the end of the show.
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Let's start with...
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This week I posted with the headline, Tesla is having its first and probably
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last good quarter in a while.
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And when I say first good quarter in a while, first relative to the recent performance
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because it's still not a stellar quarter or anything like that, probably going to
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be around the record Q3, I would assume, but nothing blowing out of the water.
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So a lot of analysts this week have updated their expectation.
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And now the range is between 430, 480.
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But that was earlier this week.
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And now I'm seeing even some people going 490,000 vehicles delivered in Q3.
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And most of the analysts that are consistently on the accurate side are on the higher range.
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So by the time everything is said is done early next week, when the quarter ends, I would
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assume that we're going to see Tesla, their consensus from Tesla analysts being around
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480, 490,000 vehicle delivered.
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And if you compare it to the same period last year, Q3 2024, Tesla was at 463,000 deliveries.
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So it would be up year over year, which as you can see from these charts here with the
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green tower being 2025, it would break the pretty clear trend going down quarter over
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quarter for the last three years.
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Tesla has been going up in the second half of the year.
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But this time it's not a seasonal situation.
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It's obviously because the US market is seeing a ton of the men being pulled forward into
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Q3 because of the end of tax credit.
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We've been talking about that nonstop for the last three months.
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Because if you look at the current situation in the different markets, the US is obviously
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the most opaque one, everything, but why people are so optimistic about the quarter in
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the US, obviously, because of the situation itself.
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But if you look at the data of trying to get some harder data on this, the inventory
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situation for Tesla right now in the US is extremely low, especially for Model 3,
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Model Y, Model S and X, there's still plenty of availability, Cybertruck won't have too
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much difficulty finding ones, but 3 and Y are where the volume at and the inventory
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It's good for Tesla, obviously, especially considering that Tesla had it.
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That's globally not US only, but over 50,000 units in the first half of the year.
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So that was Tesla's problem.
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And now they're able to work through that a lot, again, in the US.
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In Europe, it's not going well, Q3 is down based on the daily registration countries.
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So that's like Norway, UK, a few other countries.
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Tesla is down 5,000 units in the quarter year over a year, so it's still down quite a bit.
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And we have some European numbers coming from August.
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We don't have the full September just yet, but like Norway, we have September and
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And then in China, the biggest market for Tesla, Tesla is still down 24,000 units
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year over year so far this year.
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And Q3 is also in decline by, I think it was 6,000 units last time I checked.
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Tesla is basically down everywhere except the US and a few smaller markets like
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South Korea, Turkey, even though Turkey was also for an incentive reason that is going away.
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So yeah, it's going to be a good quarter for Tesla.
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But the problem is like it's going to be probably the last because
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all other markets, again, I said the few ones that I mentioned,
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are going badly and there's nothing changing on that front.
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It's the trend that's continuing.
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While the US, it's the clear reason is the end of tax credit, which is going to be,
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which is going to start hurting in Q4.
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Now the thing that we discussed the last few months that have been good for Tesla
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is the IRS has given the kind of electric automakers a little bit of slack
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where if you have a binding order with a non-refundable deposit by September 30 yet,
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you can take delivery after September 30.
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The weird part that we discussed when the rule change was made is that there's no
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actual date for the delivery.
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There's no actual deadline.
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So like for example, Rivian could take or to deposit non-refundable deposit
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with binding contracts and technically the customer will still get the tax credit
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even if they deliver like next year.
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But that would be stretching it like crazy and I wouldn't recommend that obviously.
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But Tesla and Lucid, a few of the automakers have utilized that IRS rule change.
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That said, there's no new order starting September.
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So I think that will still have a big impact on Q4 just a little bit less or so than previously stated.
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Now it will also result in some 2026 that meant being pulled forward because of that.
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So some people that are locked in on this but are not ready to take delivery will
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still place the order.
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So that's something to consider.
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But then you look at Europe, decline is still going.
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You look at China, China, it looks like a slow squeeze for Tesla.
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Like the deliveries are going down slowly and I think that will continue
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because just ramp up in competition is absolutely insane in China.
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Also, we've confirmed basically this week that the crazy report about the Molo YL
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that Tesla launched a few weeks ago and was supposedly had over 100,000
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reservations for it and everything.
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The deliveries are starting from the last three weeks and they actually
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gone down in the last week which would point and Tesla is taking
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new orders for delivery in November.
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So obviously those reports were completely false as we expected.
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Yeah, we have the association of automakers in Europe that released
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the August numbers.
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So we have the official longest numbers and we have even Elon Musk that commented on them.
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We've talked about how Elon like straight up lied about the European
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situation a few months ago where he said that they're not seeing any
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He said that everything is going bad in Europe.
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So it's not just Tesla.
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Well, we see that the continued decline is happening in August.
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However, a little less so.
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Instead of being down the usual 30 to 40%, if you take Europe, the EU,
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FTA and the UK together, this was down 22.5% in August.
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So now it's down 32.6% year over year.
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So still pretty bad but not as bad as what we saw this year.
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Where Elon decided to comment on this and I really don't know why
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you decided to go there because there's no way to make Tesla look good
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even though he tries his best here.
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Routers came out with an article saying that BYD outsold Tesla in the EU,
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which is the important word here.
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For a second month, we reported on that last month,
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still in this return to sales growth and everything.
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Elon said Routers misled constantly, agreeing with another Tesla influencer
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here on XAJ who tried to defend Tesla saying that Routers is mistaken
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saying that BYD outsold Tesla in the EU last month.
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Tesla did, was outsold by BYD in the EU but in the European Union.
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So if Routers would have said Europe, they would have been wrong.
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But they said EU and indeed put the numbers somewhere here.
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Indeed BYD sold 9,130 units last month in the EU compared to Tesla 8,220 units.
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So almost 1,000 units difference is it's when you add EFTTA,
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which is Iceland, Leicestershire, Norway and Switzerland,
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and the UK that Tesla now outsells BYD 14,831 to 11,455.
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But the thing is, even if you take this EFTTA plus UK numbers,
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which is the one that I use by the way with my 22% in New York,
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because I think it's a bigger number, it's more useful.
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Tesla was down 22% while BYD was up 215%.
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And now year-to-year BYD in those markets is up 280% versus Tesla being down 30%.
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So I don't know why Elon would even want to go there.
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BYD is obviously eating Tesla's lunch in Europe right now.
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And there's no stop inside.
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I would even at this pace, it wouldn't be surprising if BYD outsells Tesla for the whole year
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in the EU, EFTTA and the UK.
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So that's the situation.
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And my main point about this situation in Europe has always been,
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I don't know why Elon is trying to,
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I mean, I know why he's trying to side this issue as not being important
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and people being misleading about it because obviously he doesn't want to address it.
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But it should be addressed because it is important.
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Because when you have the world's largest electric automaker being down new over a year,
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when BVs are surging right now in Europe, they're up 30% new over a year, which is huge.
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So you have a surging market, you would think that the market leader,
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which was Tesla until last year, would also see a positive impact from that.
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But we are not seeing that.
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So that's super worrying.
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But it's being completely in yard, which we've been called Tesla Eater is a lot of electric.
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But I'm not trying to eat on Tesla Eater.
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I'm just, this is an issue.
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It's important data that the company should take into account
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and apply to their strategy to, you know, cells are going down.
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And when, if our views are going down on electric, we're like, all right, what's happening?
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Like, should we, are we doing something wrong?
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Like, what is affecting that?
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And you're trying to address it.
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But if you're like, no, no, no, nothing is happening.
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Like, then nothing's going to happen and it's not going to get better.
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So it's like, we're not trying to hate on Tesla.
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We're trying to see this is a real problem and it should be addressed.
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And obviously, if you do a root cause analysis of the issue, this is an aging lineup.
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Competition is trying, is being a lot more attractive to the market right now.
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Elon Musk has greatly affected the brand.
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But I think even more than that, I think Elon has shifted this towards autonomous driving
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and robotic leaving a lot less resources and effort towards the EV lineup,
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which is resulting in this aging lineup that people are just not as attracted to.
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Did that make sense?
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We still have nine by coins saying FUD live.
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How is that fear that we're trying to spread?
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Well, I mean, kind of is like, this should fear this situation.
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It's basically just something when you don't have a counterargument for something,
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you say, I bend the word on my Twitter.
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I don't see any post that I have FUDs because it's such a lazy,
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like intellectually lazy word to use.
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I'm ashamed that I ever used it in the past.
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In the US, we have Tesla that pronounced itself for the first time on the new AP rules that
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the Trump administration is rolling back.
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So the new AP policy now will allow automakers to produce more vehicles that are polluting.
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And Tesla raised its hand and said, no, we're against that.
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You shouldn't do that.
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So I think it's pretty interesting within the contrast that Trump has ran on that.
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Clearly it was electric vehicle start shutting down the EV mandate.
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Well, even though it wasn't really a real EV mandate,
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but anything that was pro-electric vehicle shutting down,
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it was clear throughout his campaign.
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You have to get in that.
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It was one of the things politicians often say things during the campaign,
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like, I'm going to hand wars and all that and then they don't do it when they can empower.
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That's one of the campaign promises that Trump has delivered on.
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And so it's not too surprising to see Tesla now being against it.
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What's more surprising is that Tesla CEO was behind him when he was making these
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comments and he still gave him like $200 million to make it happen.
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So that's a little bit more concerning.
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But I think we saw Elon.
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Elon is actually on the record being pro-removing the EV tax credit.
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However, he has not said anything about the EPA rules.
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So that's interesting.
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This is one of the things that where Tesla, it shows that Tesla is very much under the control
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of Elon and they are aligned politically or policies wise, I should say, on that front,
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where Tesla has not made so much of a complaint about the tax credit going away.
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Probably because mid to long term, it doesn't affect Tesla negatively too much
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because Tesla is still somewhat profitable.
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It's going to break even maybe without the tax credit in the U.S.
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While other automakers are going to struggle a lot or even give up on their EV plans for the legacy
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automakers that have an ICE business to fall into.
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But so long term Tesla will probably knock off some of the competition with that in the U.S.
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Again, it's a problem because it's just in the U.S. and not happening elsewhere.
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But the EPA rule is different because the EPA rule has forced the other automakers to go
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electric and to also pay penalties, pay fines if they don't do it.
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And they can counter that by going with Tesla buying some credit from Tesla directly,
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which has a surplus of it because of only producing zero emission vehicles.
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And that has been a zero outflow of money from competition into Tesla.
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So that has been very positive for Tesla over the years.
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And removing that is going to hurt Tesla a lot.
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And Elon has been quiet about that even though it was clearly Trump's plan when he backed him.
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And now it's happening right now.
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And also said, I've seen that while doing my research on this that
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the Trump administration, which is federal obviously,
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has been somewhat successful now at squashing the car and dates,
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especially the one for the semi trucks.
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The car officially today removed their mandate for semi trucks
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because it was officially non-unfirstable federally.
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Yeah, it's a big mess.
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Yeah, so in the last few weeks and in the coming weeks right now,
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we're going to see all of those anti-EV initiative from the federal government taking place.
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Tax rate goes away next week. EPM mandates removed,
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affecting the car, the California's goal to do their own thing basically.
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Even California has given up on its plan to
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compensate for the removal of the EV tax created federally.
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Yeah, I don't know if you saw that.
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Gavin Newsom called out Mary Barra for that one.
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Yeah, I thought that was interesting.
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Yeah, everything is in place. It's working now.
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It's pretty sad because I just saw the numbers, the estimates now for Q3.
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And Q3, we've been saying was going to be a great quarter for EVs in the US
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because of the demanding pull forward.
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But even then, even with the crazy good diamond,
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which is going to be temporary and then go down,
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barely broke 10% EVs in the market share or at least it's looking like that.
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Obviously, September, the data is not completely clear yet,
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and it's going to be the biggest month.
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But it looks like it's going to go from 8% to 10%,
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which is a big jump for a big market like the US.
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But Europe is already at over 15%.
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China is at 30% EVs, over 50%.
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Now, if you take the HEVs into account, it's not...
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We're basically in the third world.
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In the future of ground transportation, which is EVs, it is third world.
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I'm sure you have some third world countries that have super low passenger vehicle cells
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that BYD has got into.
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Yeah, BYD is like heading into Costa Rica and there you go.
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So within a few years, it's going to be over 10% and surpass the US.
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The US is going to be left behind so much.
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People don't understand the impact of that,
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but it's like all the American automakers are going to be so far behind
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because they don't have a domestic market to push them to make electric vehicles.
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And then they're not going to compete on the world stage.
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We're seeing it in Europe where the Chinese automakers are growing like crazy
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Well, 15% to 25%, but some of them have some exemption.
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But still, it's massive.
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But there's something that's going to save Tesla and that's autonomy.
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Elon has fed the house on it.
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But the last year, if you're a FSD owner like myself,
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whether it was a hardware 3, or a hardware 4, it hasn't been really exciting
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because Tesla hasn't had a major FSD update since late last year.
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FSD V13, if you're on all the way to 4, V12, if you're on all the way to 3.
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And that has been blamed on Tesla Foxing and its little robot taxi project in Austin.
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All the effort from the FSD team has been on that instead of the consumer product.
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But the way that Elon has been calming everyone down, we've paid up to $15,000 for that product
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and you're not delivering what you promised is that we're going to have a big update coming
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with everything we learned from RoboTaxi being rolled into FSD V14 update.
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And he said it was coming late September.
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And it sounds like it will be.
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He said this week, version 14.0 goes into early, wide release next week.
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Then 14.1 about two weeks later.
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The car will almost, will feel almost like it's Sen-Sien being by 14.2.
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Probably starting by 14.2, I think he meant.
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I'm going to go on the record saying that it will not feel like a Sen-Tien being at 14.2.
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Well, that's a while.
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No, Sen-Sien is the new mind blowing.
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That's what's happening there.
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He called it, that's twice now that he called the next update Sen-Tien.
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He referred to V13 as being feeling alive.
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So, you know, Elon said back, like V11 and V12, it was mind blowing.
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He kept saying every with every new point update, not just the bigger updates,
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that it was mind blowing.
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Now people started laughing at him about that.
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And now he switched to Sen-Sien.
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That's the new big hyperbole that he's using now.
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Look, I'm going to make a prediction and it's speculation.
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Okay, but I feel like I'm entitled to speculating because this CEO keeps
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speculating about when unsupervised autonomy is going to come and he keeps getting it wrong.
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So I'm going to make a speculation that makes a lot more sense.
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And that's, I can see easily V13 coming with a 2 to 3x improvement in miles between critical
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risk engagement, which is a big deal, big improvement.
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But based on the data we have right now, this is roughly at 400.
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It peaked at 500 earlier in the year, but then it kept going down and kept seeing regression
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and regression with the latest data.
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Well, now we have over 100,000 miles, close to 100,000 miles on V14, sorry, V13,
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and it has regressed to roughly around 400 miles between critical risk disengagement.
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You double that, 800, you triple it, 1200.
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So I can see between 800 and 1200 miles between disengagement after V14 would be a huge improvement.
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However, you cannot deliver unsupervised autonomous driving with that.
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It's just, it doesn't make sense.
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You need, for a limited service, a robot taxi, like removing the supervisor in the robot taxi,
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you need to be closer to 10,000, just to, you know, with a lot of limitations,
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you know, geofence and all that because to limit the possible, no, no highways and things
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like that to limit the potential incident level crashes and whatnot.
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For a consumer, like level five, you can say level four, you may move some of the weather
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increment and all that, but let's say level four at a consumer level where you can drive
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everywhere, nowhere near that.
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You need to be in the hundreds of thousands.
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You need to be at 700,000 if you want to be safer than a human driver.
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That's the average number of mileage between crashes.
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So you're still so far from it.
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So importantly, hardware three people, are they going to get version 14, the same version?
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No, we're still at 12 and they're already at 13.
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No, I think at this point it's very, and we're going to see it with v14,
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but I think v14 is going to basically confirm that hardware four is going the same way as
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our v3 because we're already seeing the limitation of the v4 with the latest update.
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This day is using the boat ships, the one that's supposed to be the redundancy.
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Yeah, so you won't have any redundancy on the autonomous driving computer,
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so you cannot achieve level four with that.
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You need redundancy at level four.
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So would you advise people to wait for hardware five or 4.5 or whatever is next?
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Yeah, I think there's a real shot at Tesla achieving autonomy with an hardware update.
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I just don't see it happening on the current hardware whatsoever.
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And then people talk about retrofit, but how much hope you have to have a retrofit on this?
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Especially for hardware three, I don't see it at all.
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It's been nine months now since Elon Musk has admitted that hardware three won't support
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the promise on supervised autonomous driving and we heard nothing.
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You want to know why we haven't heard nothing?
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Because they don't know.
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They don't know when it's going to be solved.
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They don't know what hardware it's going to be solved.
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So what's the point of doing a retrofit if you don't know?
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And that sounds fair, and it would be fair only if he wasn't at the same time
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promising on supervised self-driving by the end of the year.
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He obviously doesn't know.
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That's why he doesn't do the retrofit or doesn't announce some kind of
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making it way of making it right for hardware three customers.
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But at the same time, he tells you, no, actually, I know.
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I know it's going to be anything.
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You don't know that thing.
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And you didn't know that thing when you said the same thing last year.
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Didn't know nothing after that.
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That's where things get a little bit more frustrated because at one point,
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being too ambitious or not knowing or missing deadline becomes lying.
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This is when, obviously, you don't really know.
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You're just making wild guess.
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And you cannot sell a product on wild guess.
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You cannot make production on wild guess.
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But you can get a $300 composition package based on wild guesses, though.
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Hey, has Green talked about it?
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What do we know about hardware five?
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Has Green talked about it?
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Like, do we know chips, NVIDIA, Jensen?
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Yeah, we know the chips.
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Now, I'm getting, because we're already talking about hardware six right now.
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So I just, I don't want to, on the top of my head, I know.
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I think TMS, the Taiwanese one, which one?
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TSMC is doing the hardware five, I think, on the nano, the four nanometer, I think one.
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And then you have Samsung making the hardware six that they're already working on,
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which is the next generation product after that.
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And they're building that in Texas, right?
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So they secured the capacity in Texas from Samsung really early.
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But hardware five, I think now it was supposed to come this year,
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and now it's coming next year.
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Maybe they skip over hardware five.
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Yeah, I mean, I think you said that like, hardware five, like 10 times the capacity,
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hardware four, like at 10 times the capacity of our four, I can, I can, I can start seeing
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like a possibility because you 10x, right?
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If you, and I know I can, I'm making a number like, I know it's not, you know,
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completely, it's not the same, like you don't 10x the compute power of the computer.
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And then you 10x the miles between this engagement.
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I know it doesn't work like that, but like just as a rough estimate, if you do that,
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then you're starting to get, if, if hardware four peaks toward 1000 miles between critical
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disengagement, then you start to get into an area where it makes sense a little bit at least.
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It's still like pushing it.
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And I personally, if I was in charge of a company doing that, I would not be
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comfortable selling a product based on that, but it's start to make a little bit more sense.
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The psychological experiment at the same time. Yeah, it depends on the winner if they have other
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productives. Yeah, well, I like it. It's cool. Yep.
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All right, one last distant news before we move forward that happened last weekend,
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just after the podcast, it's a pretty funny story when kind of viral, especially on our Instagram,
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we had like 10 million views on this. You remember I said in 2000, well, it was in 2016,
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he made the coast to coast self-driving claims. So in 2016, Elon said that by the end of 2017,
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Tesla would be able to do a coast to coast autonomous 100% autonomous drive. He specifically
34:48
mentioned from LA to New York. But he said that this is not like theoretical, Tesla will
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do it in 2017. They will either live stream it or film it and post it fully on it and all that.
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And you could watch Tesla drive itself coast to coast. Now we're in 2025 and he has never done
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that. Tesla has never done it. He actually did comment on it a few years ago because
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it's one of his promises that people have used to poke at him for missing autonomous
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driving deadlines. And he said, oh, we could do it, but we're not going to do it because it would
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be fake. It would be like if you do a pre-determined route, you could easily do it. So it's too easy,
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we won't do it. Which tells you a lot about this character. But with the latest FSD updates,
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you hear a lot of these Tesla shareholders slash influencers, they really believe that
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Tesla can do it with the current update. They keep telling you like, I haven't driven
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my car in six months. The car drives me itself all the time. It's already there. Autonomous driving
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is already there and all that. And it's like, every time we try to shake them out of this
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cult mentality, it's like, yeah, maybe it is driving you to work and back and everything,
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but it needs to do it consistently for millions of miles to make sense or at least hundreds of
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thousands of miles. And two of these, you know, I call them Tesla shareholder influencers,
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bearded Tesla and John West or Josh West, not sure his name. Anyway, they set out to replicate
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the Coastal Drive. They were like, we'll do it. We can do it ourselves. And said they started in
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San Diego and their goal was to go to Jacksonville, Florida. They didn't get out of San Diego County
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without crashing the car. And we see dying bags. You call that a crash? Like he broke his battery
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pack in a suspension. Are you telling me it's not a crash? And I had the same exact thing happen
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to me too. And then all three years back in 2020, I rented them all three on Toro. And
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I was driving on, I was driving to Las Vegas, and I ran over an exploded semi truck tire. And
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unlike them, I was in traffic. I couldn't go left because there was traffic. I couldn't
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go right because I was going into a ditch. I didn't have as much time to react because
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literally a big truck just ran over it. So I couldn't see it until the last second. I
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pressed the brake to slow the impact, but I still ran over it. And the same thing happened.
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You see them right now if you're watching on the screen. Yeah, it's hilarious. You should
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try to play the audio because they're like, is that roadkill? Yeah, no, actually, the audio
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won't work if I if I do it on the YouTube. But yeah, they see it, especially the guy,
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the passenger, see it way ahead of time. And any points at it. And then they let it go
37:59
because you know, a lot of these tests and friends are you when you post a test of
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crash, they're like, not a test of crash, but a near miss, let's say, where it looks like it's
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about to crash. And then the driver take over and avoids the crash. A lot of times you'll
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you'll see all these Tesla shareholders in the comments saying that you should have let it go.
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It would have reacted in time and everything. And it literally looks like this one because
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the driver doesn't seem worried at all doesn't put his hands on the steering wheel
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until the very last second when when you realize that the system is not going to do anything.
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And maybe thought it was going to be able to drive over it. I don't know. It's not clear,
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but it couldn't. It was a piece of metal. And it was just enough that it scraped the bottom
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and made the car jump a little bit. You see them having a big reaction right now
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on the loop. Yeah, they're lucky. Honestly, they're lucky. It wasn't much worse.
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It could have been. Yeah. Yeah, I can tell you it's very bad on the on the vehicle though.
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When I did it and it was not metal to it was just giant rubber, but it was exactly the same impact
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like you just jumped a little bit. The bumper wasn't wasn't bad on anything. It just the
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back the part that's underneath the car between the bumper and the battery that got
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broken pretty bad. I had to tape it up and everything, but I still managed to get to
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Vegas, get back to LA, give the car back to the zero owner. But then when he brought it to Tesla
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and he sent me the bill or they sent my insurer the bill, it was $10,000 in damage may need to the
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suspension itself. They also broke their suspension with that. But they said also they had to
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replace the battery pack as they kept getting warning messages from from the car.
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These Tesla gave them a new batch pack. And I have to assume because this got too much attention
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and they didn't want to to them to post like a $20,000 repair bill for that little thing that's
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not a crash as some of these Tesla fans are saying in the comments. When you have like $20,000 of
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damage is like it's obviously a crash. They crashed into a road. This is a pretty good
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example of when Radar or Lidar would have been helpful. Like this kind of looks like a pothole
40:20
in the naked eye. I mean, clearly the influencers knew. They were like, what is that?
40:28
Yeah, even if it's roadkill, like you want to move aside, like you just yeah, you don't know
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you're gonna get carnage all over your car. Yeah, exactly. You don't know how tall it is.
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I don't want to if you hit it on the bumper like it's gonna be disgusting.
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But yeah, they got 2.5% of the coast to coast trip before, you know, wrecking the vehicle. So
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congrats. There you go. 60 miles. Yeah, good 58 miles. I think exactly they got.
40:59
All right, we got some good news on Lucid gravity. So there's been a lot of confusion
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about the lunch of the gravity deliveries started in April. They were pretty slow at first. And
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you know, last month, there was a big report that came out claiming that the Lucid that
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delivered only nine gravity in the first six months of production of deliveries. And always
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Lucid, you know, back at that, they're like, this doesn't make sense. We've already delivered
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hundreds and whatnot. But even hundreds of gravity deliveries in the first few months is not
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exactly great. Let's be honest, even though it is an expensive like $80,000 cost vehicle, but
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it's not great. Now we have our first clear evidence that Lucid is ramping up gravity
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production. We have a new drone flyover that I think happened on Tuesday or Monday
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at the factory in Arizona. And I guess, what's it called the factory for
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as a grand day, get a grand day. And that's right. So
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in the in the video of the drone video, you see, I tried to count them, you know,
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it's hard to come in exactly. And I don't want to confuse also, there's some air
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and also coming out of the factory, but most of them now looks gravity by far
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and counted, you know, easily 800 maybe closer to a thousand. I can hear the audio on this thing. Oh,
42:29
yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's bugging out. Okay, now it's gone. So yeah, it's, I know we don't know exactly
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how long it took to produce those, but they are getting ready to be shipped. They are on
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trucks. There's a bunch of trucks that keep coming. There was about six,
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six trucks in the video that was coming to pick up gravities. So it looks like they finally figured
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out production and it's they're coming out of the factory in a higher volume now.
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I have this, the video is quite long. Some screenshot that you see a lot more of them.
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But there's a bunch of different parking lots around the factories and I counted, you know,
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between 800 and around a thousand, I would say. That's good news because we've been saying
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for a while, but Lucid, you know, even though they prove some incredible technology with the air,
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it's a sedan. Sedan don't sell well in North America. You need an SUV and the gravity has been
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extremely well received by reviewers or self loved it. Scooter did a review, loved it. I
43:38
checked it out in California last month, loved it. I think it's going to be a success. You
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just need to ramp up production as soon as possible and it looks like it's finally
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happening. Let me, I think my computer is starting to lag right now because I'm
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trying to back and it's not working. Sometimes an ad will refresh the page. So you might have to go back
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like a few. I think it's the streaming software that's slowing down. Got it. All right. Moving on
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from Lucid, we have some news from Tello. Remember Tello said the tiny electric truck that's no
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bigger than a mini. They got a new financing round this week and we have even Mark
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Tarpening. Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time that got involved around the,
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they raised $20 million, which is not a lot for a vehicle program. Let's be honest,
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but they already did a lot without a lot of money because they only raised
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$8 million to date. And with the $8 million, they produced a couple of working prototypes
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and you'll set up plan for production. And now the thing that with $20 million that they raised
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this time, which they raised from Yves Behar, which is a renowned industrial designer and also
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one of the confounder of Tello, Mark Tarpening and his new venture firms, Perot Ventures.
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T.O.V.C. was involved, E-12 Venture, Neo, Mark Benioff.
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Salesforce. Salesforce, yeah. Okay, that's what I knew from. And a few other funds got
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involved, raised $20 million. And now with that, they think they can get to production,
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which would be extremely impressive. But for those who don't remember Tello,
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it's this small little truck here that's no bigger than a mini, but still very utilitarian,
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seating five adults in that, a five foot bed with eight feet extension with the folding
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mid partition. They have the DC that you can fit the plywood in the back, plywood sheet.
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All wheel drive up to 350 miles range. And obviously exceptional inevitability in towns
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and cities, because again, it is more in the mini. So very, very impressive stuff.
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Like it's not, it's not pretty maybe for truck drivers, but it's something that's,
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it's a form factor that's popular in Asia, popular in other parts of the world. And North America
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hasn't really embraced that, but there's not really any reason to other than, you know,
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policies that help bigger vehicles a lot. That's, you know, created a trend towards bigger
46:30
vehicles. I think, I think there's a way, I think there's room for this in the market.
46:36
And they proved it with like 12,000 reservation for this. So that's probably helped them raise
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the $20 million. And they are making it clear that capital efficiency is head of the game here.
46:49
They, they want to, you know, keep very close to their costs and trying to make,
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design everything for manufacturability and bring this thing to production with $20 million.
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I have my doubts. I think it's going to be extremely difficult to do it,
47:07
but it's not impossible. I think, I think it's, you know, it's a possibility that
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they can bring this thing to production with $20 million. I would, if they can, I would be like
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extremely impressed, obviously. But yeah, it's, I think it's a cool project. I'm glad it's happening.
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If they add like $50 million from this round, I think, okay, that's a little bit more
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feasible, but if they can do it with 20, it's would be nuts.
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Yeah, I wouldn't put all my money on that one.
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No, obviously normal for people who don't know, like normally like a very
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extremely cheap vehicle program would be like $200 million and that would be extremely cheap.
47:45
So 20, it's a 10th of that. But who knows, you know, with AI, with new technologies,
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could happen. All right. Xiaomi is dipping its toes in Europe, not with cells just yet, but with
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well, I should say Xiaomi vehicles because obviously their personal electronics is in Europe
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yet. The setup shop in the EU with an R&D and design center in Germany.
48:14
So it's the first time that they are establishing a presence there for their
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electric vehicle system. It's going to be for to get access to the German talent, obviously.
48:23
And so far it's been very much a Chinese company. But Xiaomi has, you know, loves Germany
48:31
a lot. You've seen all they've done with the Nurburgring, the CEO loves Nurburgring and they
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keep testing the vehicle there. So it makes sense for them to set up shop there and try to
48:42
keep their hands or their mini records that they have set in the country yet.
48:46
And it's to preface the obviously the upcoming expansion of the ED business in the EU,
48:53
which is supposed to happen in 2027. They are not in the hurry to do that right now,
48:57
obviously, because they still have a ton of them in China that they cannot fulfill just yet.
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All right, we have one more news item I want to discuss before we get into the comments.
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But I see you guys already talking to each other a lot. So if you guys have a question for us,
49:19
I would appreciate if you if you put question, then yeah, if you write actually the word question
49:27
and then put your question so that we can get to them a little bit easier, because I think it's
49:31
going to be hard for set to navigate to all of your talks and whatnot between each other,
49:38
which you know, you're allowed to do is just for for us, it makes it a little bit more
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difficult. In China, Mercedes just launched the CLA-LEV, a new version of the popular CLA that
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they launched last year, I think in Europe. And it starts at 259,000 yen, which is the equivalent
49:59
$36,000 with a range of 530 miles, 836 kilometers. That's on the CLTC standard though, but still.
50:11
Yeah, I think I find interesting about this. So do they say which partner is making this with them
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in China in the article? Okay, they have like a specific partner that they
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I feel like. Yeah, I just I cannot remember which one is it's always different. But what I find
50:30
interesting to this one is like, if you compare this with the CLA that they produced themselves in
50:36
Europe, it's like, this is going half the price. And it's just as good of specs at T2. So I think
50:47
I think it's good to highlight the discrepancy between even the same brain name that they sell
50:55
in Europe and elsewhere, versus that they want to do in China, but this one they make with the
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Chinese partner. It's wow, the difference. So because everything else looks very close to the
51:07
CLA that you have another market, you still have the giant hyperscreen system.
51:13
You still have same design. Still have crazy range on it. You know, the CLA we praised it earlier
51:20
this year for being like super efficient for Mercedes. It's one of the first vehicles that
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gets a lot of benefits from the development of the Vision X, X, I think that they called their
51:34
test vehicle that's for our hyper efficiency. I think that's pretty cool.
51:42
All right, let's try to get to some of these comments if we can.
51:47
All right. Speculator was on the first on there. When does the lack of CAFE regulatory
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credits start hitting test the financial statements? I mean, that's going to hit soon, right?
51:58
Yeah, I think there's going to be partly of it. So the problem with that is that
52:05
it depends on how automakers take the situation because a lot of these deals are directly with
52:14
automakers and they are over a long period of time. So maybe like, for example, let's say,
52:18
Ford, I was already agreed to buy Tesla's credit over the next three years. Now, the thing is
52:26
we haven't seen these contracts. So sometimes these contracts will say, if there's a change in the
52:31
law, we are allowed to break this contract. I would assume that most automakers, especially
52:38
knowing elections are coming in 2024 and everything, would have put that in them. If they didn't,
52:43
I think probably some lawyers should get fired or something. So yeah, I would assume that the
52:50
impact is going to start to be felt a little bit in Q3, but mostly in Q4 onward.
52:58
All right. That's going to be interesting because we don't know how big the impact
53:01
is because Tesla doesn't break down regulatory credits per market. They just do the global ones
53:07
and we know Tesla gets sums in Europe, but you know, sales have been going down in Europe,
53:10
so that means fewer credits there too. There's some in China also, but US is believed to be
53:16
around half if not more of Tesla's regulatory credit. So if that is slash, you know, in
53:21
the half, it would be a big deal obviously because it's hundreds of millions of dollars
53:25
every quarter, true profit. All right. William Pesano says what no one is talking about is how
53:31
Elon collects welfare from taxpayers and I'm not just talking about Tesla, SpaceX,
53:35
oil, welfare. Yes, Elon and his brother were involved with oil. I'm not sure what that is
53:40
specifically. Tesla had SpaceX collect welfare from the federal government, from Texas Governor
53:45
and the form of welfare for the power bills. This money goes to oil companies
53:50
and what flopped over goes to Elon. I'm not sure. Yeah, I don't know if we want to focus on that.
53:55
I'm not sure that's like, there's plenty of things you can criticize Elon on, I think,
54:00
like if they take advantage of subsidies to power the facilities in Texas, and I think, you know,
54:05
it's just, if it's there, they take it. It's like every company's is doing that, I think.
54:10
If you want to criticize Elon, I don't know if you saw that said it just broke
54:14
Twitter before we went live, but the Special Senate Committee just released more of the Epstein
54:25
emails and agenda and Elon is in them. In 2014, he was, according to those documents,
54:34
planning to visit Epstein Island according to the documents. It says in his agenda,
54:40
Elon supposed to come this day, 2014. And then in parenthesis, I assume it's like
54:48
his assistant to him, I guess, to Epstein. Is it still happening? Because like,
54:53
they weren't sure it was still happening. But it would show that they were communication and,
54:58
you know, Epstein and Elon were friendly around 2014, which is six years after he pleaded guilty
55:06
so this is the thing, prostitution with my minor. So not a great look whether or not you
55:11
actually went to the island. Yeah. And I think when there's that picture of him in Maxwell
55:18
that was circulating, he said something like she photo bombed him and he had nothing to do with
55:22
any of that stuff. Yeah. He distanced himself a lot from Epstein after that. But there's,
55:28
you know, there's evidence that there was contacts directly with Epstein. You know,
55:33
there's this email that leaked about him, you know, having kung fu classes with Maxwell
55:38
between him and Epstein emails. And, and yeah, I mean, it would explain a lot of things. It would
55:45
explain why Elon, you know, kid, I mean, fuel late night tweeting said that Trump was in the
55:51
file. And then a week later he backs off and it's like I went too far and then he doesn't
55:56
mention it and everything. I wouldn't be surprised if he got a little call and he's like, Hey,
56:01
you remember you also in the Epstein file.
56:05
That's it. That is just such a weird situation over there. I don't quite understand it all.
56:11
All right. Flash 357. I guess the Model Y ramp up had nothing to do with the increase in sales,
56:17
right? I think that's the most sarcasm. We are a joke, right? We're a joke.
56:25
I mean, the Model Y has been ramped up for months. I don't know what you're talking
56:28
about. Like the increase in sales in the US is because of the tax rate going away right now.
56:35
And in Europe, there's no increase in sales. It's the decline hasn't been as sharp in August
56:41
that it was prior months. It's still down 22%. So the idea was that the Model Y will increase
56:48
sales overall. Tesla's sales are going to be down in 2025. That's that's a fact. So I don't
56:54
know. I understand your point really. Sorry. All right. Apparently Model Y 2026 just had a battery
57:04
failure. Bearded Tesla guy on YouTube. We'll check into that. Well, I think that's what he's
57:10
talking about. What we talked about earlier, the batch you filled after the crash. Yeah.
57:14
Oh, after the crash. Okay. John Baker notes that BYD sells a lot that are not BEVs,
57:20
but I don't think we're counting that. No, they sell some PHEVs, but in Europe,
57:25
well, I mean, well, well, now they sell more BEVs than PHEVs. And in Europe,
57:28
I think it's closer to like 70% BEVs, 30% PHEVs, maybe 60, 40, so not that. But
57:36
I think they have two models of PHEVs, maybe three. And then the rest have seven models
57:40
of BEVs that they sell in Europe. All right. I'm going to move ahead a little bit.
57:46
But I was just talking to William Bassano. It seems like you need to be able to hear, okay.
57:53
A lot of chit chat in here. Yeah. I mean, Times is obviously not a fan,
57:58
but he's still in the chat. All right. Luckily, we have Ford with new LFP because Ford lost
58:06
money on hybrids for 15 years. And now the Ford CEO said hybrids are the most profitable
58:10
and Ford is investing in BEV. All right. I'm going to have to just weed through this.
58:18
Picked up my real world drive Tesla Model Y last week. Great improvements compared to
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the previous generation. Sad to see Tesla struggles. Hopefully they can turn it around.
58:27
I would love that. Yeah. You know what's frustrating is like,
58:32
you know, I kind of want to get a new Model Y. You know, obviously I have problems with
58:37
Elon, but I think for me, a bigger problem is like FSD is something I'm, you know,
58:46
I would be transferring. And it doesn't seem like that hardware is going to be long.
58:51
Like we're not going to be on that hardware for too long, much longer and it'll be isolated
58:55
like three. If Tesla came out with a, you will always have the latest hardware.
59:02
If you're buying FSD kind of guarantee, that would be something I would go for.
59:08
Yeah. Mark Conwell said, Cornwell says, apart from Elon himself, Tesla's main issue in Europe is tons
59:15
of smaller EVs are available that folks are buying and Tesla has nothing smaller than three.
59:21
Yeah. That's part of what we've been saying that this is lineup is aging and it's also not
59:25
growing with only a cyber truck been added to it in the last five years and that's not even
59:29
available in Europe and it wouldn't be successful in Europe anyway. So we, Tesla was supposed
59:35
to bring out this year a cheaper, smaller electric vehicle and it would have been a
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giant success in Europe, in Asia and you know, probably would have done okay in North America
59:49
too. And maybe like would have helped the market go towards smaller vehicles, which,
59:55
you know, the North American market needs to, you know, realign itself for a while.
59:59
So I think that that's part of the, that's Elon. So it's not apart from Elon himself.
00:06
Elon is the one that killed that program. So I think he's part of the, he's the main problem here
00:13
still. All right. Moving on. Can we talk more about the 2026 Nissan Leaf hitting the 255
00:22
price target before Tesla? I think it's monumental and they deserve a bit more credit
00:26
for that. Is that, is that with the, the tech speed or not? I think so. I think the price is 32.
00:34
I mean, you know, last year, what 2023 Chevy was selling the Bolt for 265. So it's not,
00:43
I don't know. It's great, the lower price vehicles, but let's give it to the Bolt.
00:51
We gave it to the Bolt. We gave them the part of the year that year.
00:56
All right. And batteries in the new Model Y crap or many video out there and now 2026 are having
01:01
problems with batteries. Model three LFP is good. I think you have an LFP in the Model Y too. So
01:09
you're saying that the NCM and MC batteries in the higher end Model Y scrap. I haven't seen that
01:19
so far yet. All right. Question. Do we have an official bi-directional NAX standard yet,
01:25
if not when? Yeah, I mean, it's using the CCS protocol, which has now included a protocol for
01:35
bi-directional charging. So Tesla, some automakers that have NAX have bi-directional charging
01:43
protocol in them. I think Tesla is just not activating it yet in anything other than a
01:49
Cybertruck. But it should, I think, I shouldn't say it should, they've been saying it for a while
01:55
that it would be the case and it hasn't been so we don't know what's the old up there. I think it's
02:01
a great feature that they should open for people that actually want to use it. If you own the
02:07
car, it's your battery pack and you should be able to do whatever you want with it. I
02:10
understand the concerns about longevity and all that, but maybe you take into account
02:16
in the battery warranty that it's not mileage, but it's just charging. You need to track cycles
02:23
instead, maybe, and then it's a solvable problem. All right. Carl and San Diego, can you clarify
02:31
when you're saying the EPA rule going away? I understand Carb states have minimum EVs
02:37
in a manufacturer fleet and paying for credits when you don't, but that was never EPA rule.
02:42
Yeah. I don't remember the exact, what do you call that? Carb is an acronym. I was forgetting
02:54
the word in English, even though it's the same in French, almost the same. But it's another rule
03:02
that it's on fleet, overall manufacturing fleet emissions for, it's a different set of emissions
03:11
that they're doing, but it's basically the same thing at a smaller scale than Carb, obviously.
03:19
It's a cafe. I think it's a, I forget the exact acronym, but it's a similar approach, basically,
03:27
as Carb is making, but no for state level stuff. The Carb states, California, New York, whatnot.
03:36
Move on. Europe has $17,000 EV go that 100 EVs that go 180 miles a range.
03:44
It's amazing. Yeah. China's also got some pretty inexpensive EVs that go 200 miles.
03:52
Is when you look at how people use their cars, it makes sense. I know that the US is a little
04:00
bit different too, because there's a lot more car culture in terms of like you live around your car
04:05
and maybe public transport also, depending on your cities in North America, is not as good
04:10
as in Europe. So take that into account. But there's still like, there's 330 million people
04:22
in the US. There's some people where it wouldn't make sense. It's a big enough market where
04:26
makes sense to launch these vehicles there too.
04:30
All right. We're going to start skipping over some of this stuff because there's quite a bit.
04:35
West Coast Supercars and Classics is sentient. I'm sorry, Dave. I don't want to drive to
04:39
Costco. That's on 2001 Space Odyssey. Question. Do we know if the Hyundai LG Battery Factory
04:50
is delayed and by how much? Yeah, we talked about it last week. I don't think these
04:56
said it is delayed. I don't think they said exactly how long, but I think they just referenced
05:01
like a few months, if I remember, at least a few months, which makes sense because they send back
05:06
hundreds of workers to Korea. And I don't think a lot of people are raising their hands to
05:12
saying, I want to come back anytime soon. Yeah, between that and the H1B visa happening and
05:20
all that, I think the US is going to have a lot of issues trying to get the foreign workers in.
05:26
All right. This is interesting and something I think about quite a bit. Chevy now, I think
05:32
it's just Breitrop. I don't know if it's Chevy Breitrop. They're maybe selling Breitrop at Chevy.
05:37
Dealers, 600 built in Ontario. Crazy discount at like $24,000 off and if you use commercial,
05:43
the $7,500 tax credit is available with no limits. So, 53K for a box truck with 176 kilowatt
05:51
hour battery, which is huge. I think this is an opportunity for the van lifers to find an
05:59
electric vehicle. That is a big battery. It's a big vehicle. But it is like, if you look at the actual
06:07
Breitrop 600, like the door is like super not aerodynamic. It looks like a delivery truck.
06:12
It's not a medic. You go the hair coming in too. Yeah. So in the winter or like when it's
06:19
cold, it's not great. Yeah. Frustrating because like, you know, you just hear so many people
06:25
talking about like an electric van life vehicle and just nobody will build like something good for
06:30
that. Ford has the e-transit and there's some bigger range version. The new e-sprinter is not
06:37
bad too. But yeah, I'm out of the way here with that price wise. It's a good deal. It's
06:44
a good deal. It's a great deal for 176 kilowatt hour battery. That's huge.
06:50
All right. We got a lot from Dimebag talking about how hitting debris on the road is like
06:57
scratching your car somehow. It's like, if you scratch your car with a key, is that a crash?
07:03
Well, if you hit debris on the road, that is a crash. All right. Anyway,
07:10
Fred, I think you were involved in ATV development investment. I bought a Volcon HF1
07:15
UTB Crazy Specs China made 17.5 kilowatt hour battery, 100 horsepower. I think those Volcons
07:22
are like those really fat tire bicycles. They used, well, that was their first product. Then they
07:29
made other things, but I didn't even know they were already shipping those. Are you saying
07:33
that you have it? Because that would be cool. I haven't seen them in the wild just yet.
07:39
Yeah. I was involved in the company. Well, I was on an advisor at the company,
07:45
but there were some issues with it. They went under, but I actually bought them out of bankruptcy
07:51
just last month. Now I have basically an EV startup in my garage. We don't have any
08:01
clear plans right now with it or anything like that. I have two EVs, electric EVs at my house,
08:08
prototypes that are pretty cool. 20 kilowatt hour battery pack, so I got you beaten there on my ATV.
08:17
But yeah, I'm playing around with it. I just tested out two of my articles coming out next
08:23
week, I think, for the ATV from Can-Am, the BRP. It's much lower power, like nine kilowatt hour
08:32
battery pack, I think. But it's a more complete vehicle, a lot more refined. I think they're
08:41
going to have a good market for that too. Not a crazy price. I think it's $13,000 US.
08:46
So the electric off-roadings, poor power sports, it's happening and it makes so much sense.
08:54
I love it so much because all the same benefits you have with road vehicles
08:58
are so applied to off-roading, also applies to nature and it's even better because what's better
09:04
than enjoying nature? Then zero emissions, zero noise pollution, it just makes so much sense.
09:13
All right, question. Does Tesla have any significant new products coming in the next
09:16
two to three years? The only thing I know is CyberCab, but FSD doesn't work yet.
09:22
I mean, Roadster maybe.
09:26
Big maybe? Yeah, big maybe.
09:30
So mine, I guess, does that count even though Tesla claims it's been in production since 2022?
09:37
First, it claimed only entering production 2022. Now it's like we're entering production 2025,
09:41
so I know it's depending on how you see it. But I would count it as a new product.
09:48
Then, yeah, CyberCab. CyberCab, I don't know what's going to happen with it obviously because
09:54
if it doesn't have a steering wheel, it's not like the other cars with FSD. There's no other
09:59
option. So you'd have to have solved unsupervised autonomous driving and Tesla clearly hasn't
10:06
solved that yet. And we're going to see where V13 goes. Elon says unsupervised by the end
10:11
of the year, I say 800 to 1200 miles of capacity. Dimeback says Rebel Taxi. What is Rebel Taxi?
10:18
Rebel Taxi is a Model Y right now. It's not a new product. Unless you mean Rebel Taxi with
10:23
CyberCab, but that's the same thing as the specular is saying here. So yeah, I just,
10:30
it is a big bummer really, Tesla's product lineup. There's no, I guess, Model YL
10:37
expending to the market. That bus thing that. Oh, that Rebel Van. Yeah, I think I'm going to see
10:46
the CyberCab before we see Rebel Van, I guess. The strip down Model Y maybe counts as a new,
10:52
maybe they're going to name that thing and something else on Model Y. I don't know.
10:55
Yeah, we're going to get a new performance Model Y and a Model YL.
11:01
But yeah. All right, with the tax credit going away and the use tax credit, any thoughts of
11:08
used EV prices in the US will go up, stay stable, et cetera? I think they will go up. I think that's
11:13
pretty clear. Every time that the last time that the tax credit went away for Tesla, that's
11:18
what happened. And Tesla used market badly needs it right now because it's pretty rough up there.
11:25
Yeah, I think it's going to go up. All right, I think that's about the last
11:31
go-herit thing here. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, thanks to everyone for participating
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