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| So extremely exciting in the long term |
| So, it’s really pretty amazing |
| We believe this strategy positions us well for the long term |
| I’ll say that again, Tesla has the best real world AI team on earth, period, and it’s getting better |
| With the increased volume and yield improvements, cell costs consistently improved month-over-month within the quarter, although we have a lot more work to do to achieve our steady state goals |
| Just as humans drive well, and in fact, an excellent human driver can drive with amazing safety simply with their eyes, the car will far exceed the average human safety just with vision, far, far, far because, I mean, the car is looking at all directions all at once |
| And we are tracking, I believe at this point for Model Y to be the best selling car on earth, but not just in revenue, but in unit volume |
| I guess, I’m very excited about our progress with autonomy, the end-to-end, nothing but nets self-driving software is amazing |
| We’re also seeing significant promise with FSD version 12 |
| It’s a great product, but financially it will take, I don’t know, a year to 18 months before it is a significant positive cash flow contributor |
| And I mean success in this regard in the long-term I think has the potential to make Tesla the most valuable company in the world by far |
| We feel very good about that |
| Our services and other businesses on a year-on-year basis also continue to show positive momentum as we benefit from our growing fleet |
| So I mean, yes, it’s like the economics of the system are just insanely positive given that the car -- like all of the cars we’re making and have made for a while, we believe, are capable of full autonomy |
| Vehicle deliveries in Q3 outpaced production, and we had yet another record quarter of profitability in our energy business |
| And as this business grows, the energy vision is becoming our highest margin business |
| So yes, we had a great quarter this period |
| So, I just don’t want to emphasize that while I think this is potentially our best product ever and I think it is our best product ever, it is going to be -- require immense work to reach volume production and be cash flow positive at a price that people can afford |
| Rod Lache Really nice to see the rate of vehicle cost improvement despite the downtime that you took |
| The Tesla AI team is I think one of the world’s best, and I think it is actually by far the world’s best when it comes to real world AI |
| And when you look at the other pieces, which we are trying to do, we did see certain of our other factories ramping up pretty well, right? And they actually contributed pretty well to the margin for this quarter |
| And that product has done well |
| I think we will grow very rapidly, much faster than any other car company on earth by far |
| We put a lot of effort into looking at different locations, and we feel very good about that location, and we are going to build a factory there, and it’s going to be great |
| I apologize it’s not in those countries, but we keep plenty of ways to make it better |
| We get -- we expect that we’ll get some benefits from our cost reduction efforts, which are all underway |
| It’s an amazing product |
| A fully autonomous vehicle, I think, Pierre, your -- sort of the economics of autonomous vehicle are truly astounding in a positive way |
| So it’s car companies do very well in good economic times, and they don’t do as well in tough economic times |
| Regarding Autopilot and AI, our vehicles now driven over 0.5 billion miles with FSD beta, full self-driving beta and that number is growing rapidly |
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| And there are some incremental challenges beyond that, which is the difficulty of getting credit at all has increased |
| As Elon mentioned, our Q3 operational and financial performance was impacted by planned downtimes for our factory upgrades |
| I would be very disappointed if it took us -- and that would be shocking if it took us three years |
| But I am still somewhat scarred by 2009 when General Motors and Chrysler went bankrupt |
| Going back to what I said earlier that the ramp is going to be extremely difficult |
| I do want to emphasize that there will be enormous challenges in reaching volume production with the Cybertruck, and then in making a Cybertruck cash flow positive |
| Obviously, in the past, I’ve been overly optimistic about this |
| I’m worried about the high interest rate environment that we’re in |
| But even a great ship in a storm has challenges |
| Plus, like Elon mentioned, we’re going to be ramping Cybertruck, which is going to be another headwind, which we will be dealing with |
| Scrap is down 40% quarter-over-quarter |
| So, personnel is our biggest challenge and the greater Austin area only has -- generously the greater Austin area only has 2 million people |
| But it’s difficult to going from a prototype to volume production, it’s like 10,000% harder to get to volume production than to make a prototype in the first place, and then it is even harder than that to reach positive cash flow |
| And so a lot of regional banks are died, and I mean even Credit Suisse, I mean, geez, that was a shocker |
| So the auto industry is also somewhat cyclic because people hesitate to buy a new car if there’s uncertainty in the economy |
| I mean, commercial real estate obviously is in terrible shape |
| On top of all that, there’s overall uncertainty in the macroeconomic environment, which even makes it harder to predict precisely as to where we land |
| And special products that come along once in a long while are just incredibly difficult to bring to market, to reach volume, to be prosperous |
| Like I just -- I’m not saying things will be bad |
| That was very tough going |
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