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00:00Today, a big update from Tesla on their very long range semi.
00:04But first, let me remind you what one of the smartest people on planet Earth had to say
00:09about the prospects of long range electric semis just a couple of years ago.
00:14September 2020, Gates wrote, quote, electricity works when you need to cover short distances,
00:20but we need a different solution for heavy, long haul vehicles.
00:25Oh God, this is hilarious, but I'm just going to read the article now.
00:28Like other critics of all electric long haul, such as Nikola founder, Trevor Meltdown Milton,
00:35who I believe at this point in time is doing his best not to drop the soap, we all saw
00:39that coming, Gates believes battery powered cross country trucking is impractical, quote,
00:45the more weight you're trying to move, the more batteries you need to power the vehicle,
00:49he writes.
00:50Now, that's true.
00:51Thank you, Bill.
00:52He continues, but the more batteries you use, the more weight you add and the more power
00:56you need.
00:57Even with big breakthroughs in battery technology, electric vehicles will probably never be a
01:02practical solution for things like 18 wheelers, cargo ships and passenger jets.
01:07So awkward moment, this 18 wheeler right here, more range than any human bladder can handle.
01:16Let's continue this article.
01:17For long haul, Gates points to alternative biofuels and hydrogen, which by the way, certainly
01:21he doesn't have any fingers in any of those pies to his quote unquote philanthropic business
01:26endeavors.
01:27Right?
01:28Right.
01:29Because he wouldn't be talking his own book, would he?
01:30Nah.
01:31Which is typically associated with hydrogen fuel cells.
01:34In this case, Gates supports combining hydrogen with carbon dioxide to produce synthetic gasoline
01:38and diesel, also known as electro fuels, which can then be used in existing engines.
01:44So just to make sure that everyone understands that as embarrassing as it was for Bill Gates
01:49to be wrong, this is the only time he's ever exercised very poor judgment.
01:53Mate, what's this?
01:54Elon Musk disclosing back in 2022 that Bill Gates, to the best of his knowledge, still
01:59had a multi-billion dollar short position against Tesla stock?
02:04Well, simultaneously claiming to want to help with global warming might cause some trust
02:09issues.
02:10Now, duh.
02:11Bill Gates has got to be one of the most braindead quote smart people on the planet to not understand
02:16the optics.
02:17He's out here flying around in his private jet, lecturing people about global warming
02:20and whatever.
02:21Right.
02:22And at the same time, this fucking idiot had a multi, probably still has a multi-billion
02:26dollar short position against the one company that's done more to address global warming,
02:32as they say, than any other.
02:34Even if you think you can make some money on that deal, you're already filthy fucking
02:37rich.
02:38Why?
02:39How dumb do you need to be to not be able to read the room and think, hmm, lecturing
02:42everyone about climate change and global warming and probably you shouldn't have a fucking
02:46gigantic, like record breaking, Guinness world record breaking short position against the
02:51one company that...
02:52Bro, the guy is, you guys understand a bit of physics, probably not all of you, but quantum
02:56superposition being two states at the same time, he's both a genius and a fucking tard
03:00at the same time.
03:01It's amazing.
03:02Although genius may be a slight stretch, but don't worry, those are the only two instances
03:06of Bill Gates demonstrating extremely poor judge, what's this?
03:11Bill Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein many times despite his past.
03:16And if you don't know his past, what rock have you been living under?
03:20So, uh, I think what I was trying to say is, wait, what's this?
03:23In case you need to lose a boner fast.
03:25Oh, how rude and hilarious.
03:28So definitely listen to this guy.
03:31If he ever tells you to do anything that's for your own health and or safety, wait, what?
03:35I'm not going there.
03:36Yeah.
03:37So, um, I think I had a point.
03:38Oh yeah.
03:39That's right.
03:40Bill Gates is very smart.
03:41He used to be a fan of diversification at one point owning 49% of Microsoft, a company
03:47today worth $3.24 trillion.
03:48I'm going to do the math on 49%.
03:51Don't bother.
03:52Cause that's not what he owns anymore.
03:53I've said it before.
03:54I'll say it again.
03:55Diversification is for very smart people like Bill Gates.
03:58Now that I'm done roasting Bill and look, he asked for it, bro, actively short for an
04:03extended period of time against Tesla.
04:05Okay.
04:06Strike one, hanging out with a legit pedo and knowing about this and still strike two.
04:12Misleading dimwits in the general public, safe and effective and for your protection,
04:15not their quarterly profits.
04:16Strike three and being arrogant and dumb enough to go on the record claiming that electric
04:22long haul vehicles ain't going to happen.
04:24The guy was begging for it.
04:25So I'm happy to give him what he was asking for.
04:28Now, Tesla stole the show at the IAA transportation 2024 event.
04:33Let's learn the latest bombshells, and I do mean that on the Tesla semi, that was never
04:37going to happen and isn't practical.
04:39Yeah, by the way, just four years after Bill Gates, famously embarrassing comments.
04:44Hi everyone.
04:45It's great to be here.
04:47Really it's a true privilege for us to get a chance to show the semi off to all of you
04:52and give you just a little bit of a hint of what we've been doing with it in the North
04:56American market.
04:57Yeah.
04:58We really think that we've got a compelling product that when we bring it to Europe, we'll
05:01be welcomed by our customers.
05:03Now, before I get into that, I do want to say that there's a lot of really impressive
05:07stuff here at the show.
05:09Ultimately, frankly, the OEMs have done a great job of putting not just a lot of innovation
05:14and passion into the vehicles, but putting them on the road.
05:16There are respectable volumes of zero emission vehicles, battery electric ones in particular,
05:21on the road now.
05:22And I applaud all the efforts to go and scale as we look forward, whether that's in vehicles
05:27or charging to make Europe transportation zero emission.
05:31Now, we want to be part of this.
05:33Why we're here and why we're interested in Europe is that we want to help leverage the
05:36experience we have, not just with our North American pilot fleet, but also with EVs overall
05:41in order to help accelerate that transition to sustainable energy.
05:45Now, let's talk about the product a little bit.
05:48We understand that the European market is not a monolith.
05:51We understand that countries are different, customers are different, and we look forward
05:55to developing trucks that will be very specific for the use cases of our customers' needs.
05:59Now, what you have to know is that we designed the Semi from day one to be a compelling product
06:06across multiple markets, including Europe.
06:09Now, the truck that you see at the booth today is just one variant.
06:13We adopted our pilot production North American truck for the European market and roads.
06:19Thanks to the 2020 rules, the dimensions and weights directive modifications, the Tesla
06:25Semi will be street legal in Europe and be compatible with European trailers.
06:29Now, we'll be back and we'll bring some other things along that I think will showcase a
06:33little bit more of the variants that we're looking to develop to help best serve a wide
06:36variety of customers in Europe, but we're proud of what we have today.
06:40And when we do come back, we want to make sure we do so in scale.
06:43And ultimately, we want to address the concerns of our customers.
06:46Two of the things that you commonly hear about when it comes to electrification are that
06:50range is not acceptable and that the trucks are way too heavy.
06:53Now, we have been putting a lot of effort in to show that those two things are not necessarily
06:57correct, or at least our product helps address those concerns.
07:00Our 800 kilometre truck, we have done actual demonstrations of, and these masses we think
07:05are competitive and allow for a significant amount of payload.
07:08And when you couple the two together, we believe that we can address a large number of applications
07:12that diesel is successfully doing today, but we can do it at a lower operating cost.
07:17Just want to take a quick pause here.
07:19You'll note the way this is being presented.
07:21As I've said many times, Tesla's never ever been about addressing 100% of every category,
07:27or every vehicle, every use case instead, due to the fact that their brains are too big.
07:32They're looking at addressing the needs of the majority.
07:35Think about the Pareto principle.
07:37They're going after the 80% of use cases, not the 20% of edge cases.
07:42It's a balancing act.
07:43Cybertruck is another classic example of that.
07:44Because they could have released a Cybertruck with a stupidly long range that almost no
07:48people would actually require.
07:49Alternatively, they could address 80% of customers and have the option of a range extender for
07:55those very few rare cases where it's actually needed.
07:58Clearly, this is also the approach for the Semi.
08:00And importantly, the financial case for replacing a diesel Semi truck with a Tesla Semi, as
08:06we're just hearing.
08:07It's an actual no-brainer.
08:08If you're a business and a Tesla Semi can slot into the same routes you're currently
08:14using a diesel truck, a diesel Semi, you'll save stupid amounts of money from day one,
08:19making it an absolute no-brainer.
08:20And this is the whole point.
08:22There's no need to convince people when the numbers speak for themselves.
08:26All other things being equal, there's a much lower energy cost recharging electric
08:30versus using diesel fuel.
08:31But in addition, the number of miles, or in parts of the world where they use a more sensible
08:36unit of measurement, metric system, kilometres.
08:39The more kilometres you're doing per day, per week, the more things are prone to wear
08:44out.
08:45So the less parts, less points of failure, wear and tear, the better.
08:49And electric vehicles have a fraction of the moving parts of an internal combustion
08:53vehicle of any kind.
08:54So the maintenance is significantly lower and the energy is significantly lower.
08:57So your operational costs, all things considered, are significantly lower, making the payback
09:02time very quick.
09:03So again, these things are a no-brainer.
09:06And then of course, there's the climate alarmists forcing companies to start transitioning their
09:10fleets to sustainable forms of transportation anyway.
09:14So I mean, this company is going to have their hand forced even if it wasn't economically
09:17a no-brainer.
09:19Government mandates are also going to push them in that direction.
09:22Now how do you achieve this?
09:23It's through developing a single, optimised, simple platform around battery electric from
09:29day one.
09:30Trying to protect or optimise from multiple powertrain options just introduces drag.
09:35Correct.
09:36Accurate.
09:37It's almost like this guy works at Tesla and has a brain.
09:38Oh wait, he does and he does.
09:40That's why, yes, simplicity.
09:42I've said it many times in the past, but I will repeat it.
09:45Whenever you see a company out here bragging about how many different models and variations,
09:49you idiots.
09:50You want one category killer per category.
09:53Simplicity is key.
09:54You benefit from economies of scale.
09:55A lack of complexity.
09:56Remember, complexity appeals to stupid people.
09:59Think about an iPhone.
10:00Most people watching probably have one.
10:02You basically have the standard iPhone and the big iPhone.
10:05And Tesla Semi, you basically have the standard Semi and the big Semi, as in more range.
10:09That's it.
10:10That's all you need that will meet the needs of most consumers out there, most businesses
10:13out there.
10:14It blows my mind when I see a company announcing, we're going to have 27 new models of electric
10:18vehicle by 2027.
10:19You morons.
10:20Do you not understand that you're self-immolating, you're roasting yourself with this announcement?
10:24The big swinging dick moment from a company is when they say, we are going to make one
10:28product in this category.
10:29We're going to have one or two variations and that's it.
10:32That's how you know they're on the right path.
10:33And all these numbers are more difficult to achieve.
10:36So we encourage everyone to continue to develop purpose-built EV platforms to allow for the
10:41best possible products.
10:42Now, these numbers, particularly the mass ones represent today, but we have more improvements
10:47and there's no exemptions factored in here.
10:49No weight exemptions.
10:50And on top of that, we think that there are additional levers to pull to reduce these
10:54masses even further.
10:55Now the other common refrain that we get from our customers is about charging and the charge
11:00times are too long.
11:02We have successfully demonstrated and deployed megawatt level charging in the field.
11:07It is safe, it is reliable, and it enables a one-for-one replacement of diesel trucks.
11:13We've successfully driven, PepsiCo did a demonstration last year, of more than 1,700 kilometers in
11:19a single 24-hour period.
11:21And that is enabled by fast charging.
11:23This allows the vehicle to get back on the road as quickly as can and go back to earning
11:27money for the customer.
11:29Now it's important to understand what we're really trying to do is ensure that the vehicle
11:33has no dedicated time for charging.
11:35What we want to do is take time where the vehicle would already be stationary, be it
11:39for unloading and loading cargo or when a driver needs to take their break or they are
11:43off duty.
11:44That is when we want to charge the vehicle.
11:46The goal is zero dedicated stops for charging.
11:49Fast charging also enables positive economics and we are seeing lower operating costs in
11:53the trucks that we put in the field today.
11:55Now how do we put this charging to use?
11:57To date, we have driven more than 7.5 million kilometers with the pilot Tesla Semi fleet.
12:02Now this is not the most number of miles by a heavy duty fleet.
12:05Again, I applaud all the work the other OEMs are doing, they're doing great work.
12:08But why are we proud of this number?
12:10It's because we've done it with a relatively small number of trucks in a relatively short
12:13period of time.
12:14And it's because of high efficiency and high range and megawatt charging that that is possible.
12:19Just as a data point, we have a truck in our fleet that is less than a year and a half
12:23into operations.
12:24It has driven more than 400,000 kilometers.
12:27Those are not simulated.
12:28Those are not accelerated.
12:29Those are real world miles.
12:30And those have been all done at North American gross vehicle weight limits to enable 15 million
12:36ton kilometers of work.
12:38Now Tesla...
12:39Bill Gates has left the chat.
12:41That sounds to me like a compelling use case of a real product, an electric 18-wheeler
12:47doing real work.
12:48Just to translate for the folks still using the world's most embarrassing measurement
12:52system, 400,000 kilometers in 18 months is roughly 250,000 miles.
12:58That ain't no joke.
12:59Tesla wants to put its money where its mouth is.
13:02And we put these trucks today into our existing operations.
13:05We haul battery packs out of our factory in Nevada to support vehicle operations down
13:08in California.
13:09And we do this one for one with diesel.
13:12There's no compromise in schedule and no compromise in payload in order to make this happen.
13:17So we get to replace diesel at a lower operating cost.
13:20If you own Tesla stock, this is very good.
13:22One of the millions of ways Tesla can save costs and overhead, replacing the diesel vehicles
13:27they were previously using with their own electric semi-trucks.
13:31Now in addition to having this, we have to make sure the vehicle is actually capable
13:34to do that job.
13:36And we put them to work.
13:37We go up some serious grades.
13:39About two years ago, we did a demonstration where we took our drive, where we took the
13:43truck out for an 800 kilometer drive with no charging, successfully demonstrated it.
13:48As part of that, we did this pass, it's called Tejon Pass, more commonly known as the Grapevine,
13:53and it's significant.
13:54But we know that the European market has its fair share of grades as well.
13:59And Brenner, which we plan to demonstrate at some point, is definitely notable.
14:03Why are we confident that the semi is going to work in these applications as well as others?
14:08Because this is the grade that we do every day, multiple times a day.
14:13This is Donner Pass in California.
14:15It's a great proving ground.
14:16You've got different traffic types, different weather conditions, different grade pitches
14:19along the way.
14:21It's a grueling, wonderful, Goldilocks route where we get to really stress the truck in
14:25a variety of applications.
14:27We're confident that the work that we are doing in North America is applicable to the
14:30strenuous areas of Europe.
14:32We take our truck and we climb heavy grades in high heat, 45C, down and outside of Las
14:37Vegas, Nevada.
14:38We go to Alaska, we climb high grades in minus 20C.
14:41We go park the truck and let it sit out in minus 40C.
14:44We are doing this work and we understand that Europe is not constant and there will be unique
14:47challenges to the market, but I want to reassure you that we are stressing the vehicle and
14:51the systems so that we're confident when we do come here, it will get the work done for
14:55the customer.
14:56Now, electrification introduces a major improvement in terms of efficiency.
15:01The baseline, you know, diesels over time have actually significantly improved in terms
15:06of efficiency.
15:08There has been market improvement and that should be applauded, but electrification introduces
15:13a step change here, and the common industry numbers that we see are starting to approach
15:17100 kilowatt hours of energy in order to travel 100 kilometers.
15:21We are actively using the Semi and demonstrating that it is capable of 100 kilowatt hours per
15:26100 kilometers, and when we come back with a high volume version of this truck, this
15:30number is going to continue to improve.
15:32Efficiency is key.
15:34It results in lower battery mass, lower battery cost, and thus enabling better economics for
15:40the customer to reduce pricing and increase capability.
15:43Yeah, in other words, it's already a no-brainer, even at low volume, but as these things scale,
15:48more costs are driven down, energy density of batteries improves, some mass is removed.
15:52Tesla Semi is going to go from a no-brainer to a giga no-brainer.
15:56People don't seem to be thinking about this, but there's going to be near infinite demand
15:58for these things for years to come.
16:01If your job in a business is to save the business money and you operate a fleet of diesel vehicles
16:05today and you look at the economics of a Tesla Semi, first you're going to shit a fucking
16:09break, then you're going to go running to your boss's office going, hey boss bro, I'm
16:12going to save you a fuckload of money.
16:13You're going to get a nice pat on the back.
16:15The bigger the business, the larger their fleet, the more significant the financial
16:19impact of shifting from diesel semi trucks to electric in particular Tesla.
16:22Now, it's important to understand there are other electric semi trucks on the market.
16:27Most of them have piss poor range and aren't brilliantly engineered.
16:30If you're a fleet owner and you're looking at the economics, the efficiency of the drive
16:35train, the total mass of the vehicle, the kilowatt hours per kilometer or mile is what
16:41matters most to your total operating costs.
16:44So the company that can engineer the most efficient vehicle, that would be Tesla, is
16:48going to have the most financially compelling product.
16:51And unlike consumers who may be buying vehicles to compensate for a lack of inches in one
16:56place or another, or to signal to the world a certain level of perceived status and or
17:01security, commercial customers don't give a shit about that.
17:04They care about the bottom line.
17:06Now, we put all of that efficiency into the field and we put the semi across a variety
17:12of different duty cycles, whether that's light or medium or heavy.
17:15And now this is actual data from our North American fleet, so you'll see the numbers
17:20tend to correspond to North American limits, but it is very much applicable to how we expect
17:25vehicles to run into a wide variety of applications that our customers are going to put the semi
17:29in in the future.
17:31And again, as we get more efficient, these numbers will continue to improve.
17:35Now it's one thing to deliver a very capable semi, a very capable heavy truck, but it has
17:40to be reliable.
17:41It's got to stay on the road.
17:42And thus far, the fleet, the semi pilot fleet that is in operation is currently showing
17:47more than 95% uptime.
17:49We use Tesla's vertical integration, starting all the way up at the design teams and working
17:53through manufacturing and supply chain production and down to service to create a product that
17:58not only is reliable, but also one that allows us to get the vehicle back to the customer
18:04faster.
18:05We understand that time is of the essence.
18:08We can't take a truck down for an elongated repair job.
18:11And by the way, that 95% number includes both unscheduled and scheduled maintenance, as
18:15does the fact that our key to key time, the amount of hours that it takes to take a truck,
18:21repair it and get it back is less than 24 hours in nearly 70% of the cases in the current
18:26fleet.
18:28So this is what we are looking to continue to improve to ensure that our customers can
18:31get their vehicles back on the road and back to work.
18:34Now as we look to come to the European market, we'll make sure that our customers have the
18:39service partnership that they need, whether that is something that Tesla does directly.
18:43We work with third party services or something where a technician that works at a customer's
18:49site is equipped in order to work on the semi directly.
18:52We see the diverse service needs and the European market is incredibly nuanced.
18:56We really respect that and the number of solutions that are out there are tremendous
19:00and we want to fit into those solutions so that the customer has the best tool to do
19:04the job.
19:05Now, we have shown that electrification is technologically ready, but how do we bring
19:10this to scale?
19:11What do we need to do?
19:12Well, Tesla is delivering additional trucks to PepsiCo, our launch partner throughout
19:16this year, but then we're actually starting to introduce through the end of this year,
19:21additional new customers that are going to get a chance in North America to experience
19:24a semi firsthand and a full ownership experience.
19:26But that's just this year.
19:28What we're really looking forward to is high volume.
19:30Now we are constructing a factory outside of Reno, Nevada, near one of our existing
19:34plants that will be capable of building more than 50,000 units a year.
19:38We look forward to-
19:39Now 50,000 units a year may not sound like a huge number, but remember the average selling
19:44price of these is many times that of say a Model 3 or a Y or even a Model S or X.
19:51...production throughout.
19:52We see that Europe is the next market following the ramp in North America.
19:55Now, I haven't seen this presentation.
19:57Maybe he'll share numbers, but we just heard 50,000 per year capacity in the US, then Europe,
20:02so spoiler alert, add another 50,000 a year.
20:06So we're now looking at 100,000 units per year of global Tesla semi production.
20:10Well, that's just based on one factory in the US and one somewhere in Europe.
20:14Let's do some numbers since we've got a nice round number, 100,000 semis.
20:19Given these things are 200,000 US dollars a pop, or use your own number, that would
20:23be $20 billion a year of revenue.
20:27If there's a 20% margin on those, that's $4 billion a year in profit, a billion dollars
20:31a quarter.
20:32This is a seriously large project.
20:35Tesla's entire business today is roughly $100 billion in revenue per year.
20:39This could be a 20% increase on that.
20:41And I don't know if it's going to come up in this talk, but you know the whole autonomy
20:45thing and vehicle platooning that was previously discussed?
20:48This is not including any software revenue.
20:51Imagine the transformation, the shift, and being a semi-driver turning instead into an
20:55operator where software is doing most of the driving work.
20:58And imagine Tesla's charging per month for that software on a fleet of, let's just call
21:04it, 100,000 of these vehicles per year.
21:05Over the next decade, that could be a million of these things on roads.
21:08Numbers get pretty fucking insane.
21:09And again, unlike a consumer decision to buy a vehicle for personal use, consumers are
21:14a lot more sensitive to interest rates and economic conditions.
21:18If times are difficult economically for a business, there's more incentive to invest
21:22in stuff like electric semis to replace your diesel vehicles because you will instantly
21:26save money.
21:27Consumers will be like, oh, I can't afford a vehicle, I'll wait a few years to buy one.
21:29A business is like, oh shit, tough times, rates are high, better replace those extremely
21:34expensive diesel vehicles with some electric vehicles and save some money.
21:38Now what does this scale do?
21:40What this scale does is allows us to industrialize and bring capacity to the semi that lowers
21:45our cost that we can pass on to our customers so that when they make an investment, when
21:49they buy a semi, they can pay that back substantially faster than a traditional fleet turnover time.
21:55The end result is a positive economic experience for our customers.
21:58We aim to be as competitive at an upfront price with diesel as possible in order to
22:04accelerate the adoption of electric trucks as quickly as we can.
22:08Again, this is unlocked through Tesla's deep vertical integration.
22:11And we will plan to leverage this into multiple variants.
22:13Again, you're seeing one today, but we'll be taking on a wide variety of applications
22:17and vehicle types.
22:18Wait a second here, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I need to process this.
22:23He just said wide variety of vehicle types.
22:26He's not talking about a long range and a less range, but no, no, no, no, no, okay.
22:29There's probably two variations of the semi, e.g. the 18 wheeler.
22:32I'm going to listen to that again.
22:34I think that we may just low key have heard about a bunch of additional commercial products
22:38in Tesla's pipeline to address other needs.
22:41But he low key just let slip that Tesla's going to enter this market as well.
22:45Now I've said it before, but there's obviously at some point going to be a Tesla van.
22:49This is a lot of the last mile sort of delivery stuff.
22:51You've got 18 wheelers delivering huge amounts of cargo between cities, major hubs.
22:55Then typically that ends up on one of these and then gets to somebody's doorstep.
22:59Let's listen to that again.
23:00Price with diesel as possible in order to accelerate the adoption of electric trucks
23:06as quickly as we can.
23:07Again, this is unlocked through Tesla's deep vertical integration.
23:10And we'll plan to leverage this into multiple variants.
23:12Again, you're seeing one today, but we'll be taking on a wide variety of applications
23:16and vehicle types.
23:17Yo, this is crazy, dude.
23:19A wide variety of vehicle types does not sound like a wide number of variations on a single
23:24vehicle type, e.g. multiple variations on the semi itself.
23:28Now it is possible to play devil's advocate here.
23:30Maybe somehow, cause my brain's really small, so I can't figure it out, but maybe Tesla
23:34somehow thinks that they can use the semi itself to take on a bunch of other vehicle
23:40types, like somehow disrupt delivery vans and those really light duty trucks as well
23:44with the semi.
23:45It's possible.
23:46That's what he meant, but I'm giving that about a 0.4 to 0.69% probability.
23:50It sounds very much like Tesla intends on producing a range of commercial vehicles starting
23:55with the semi and then eventually a number of other commercial vehicles as well.
23:59What do you guys think?
24:00Is that the way that you interpret his comments?
24:01Did we just hear about a range of Tesla commercial vehicles in the pipeline, e.g. commercial
24:06van, smaller truck, and so on?
24:08Or am I just hallucinating?
24:09Dude, this is big.
24:11So coming soon, possibly, a Tesla baby truck, I don't even know what these things are called,
24:15like a light, light duty truck, a commercial van, obvious things are obvious, plus the
24:20semi, at least the long and the moderate range variation, what else could possibly be around
24:25the corner?
24:26Was he meant to say that out loud?
24:27Were we, were we meant to be able to see this presentation?
24:30I mean, he kind of, he's talking to commercial customers, right?
24:32Maybe we weren't meant to be a fly on the wall.
24:35This is why it's always worth watching everything that's being said by anyone working at Tesla.
24:39In these kinds of presentations, this is huge, bro.
24:41We've just heard about a bunch of new products in the potential pipeline.
24:45And I do just want to remind everybody that autonomy is just around the corner.
24:48So when you think about future products, think about autonomy's role in these as well.
24:53Now, it's one thing to scale a vehicle.
24:55It's an entirely other thing.
24:56We also have to scale the charging infrastructure.
24:58Now we're going to make sure that the customers have the charging solution that they need.
25:03That could be a depot charging, which we have experience with deploying with PepsiCo in
25:07our own operations, for example.
25:09Or it could be something more akin to the public supercharger network that you might
25:12be familiar with.
25:13We're going to make sure that the customer has what they need to do the job.
25:16And that means we'll also ensure that there is compatibility with the other third party
25:20networks and public networks that are coming online in Europe.
25:23We want to make sure our customers have the tools they need to do the job at the time.
25:27And that includes interoperability with other charging networks.
25:31But we are using our experience at deploying more than 50,000 DC chargers worldwide to
25:35drive down the cost of deployment and equipment to ensure the lowest possible charging cost
25:41for our customers.
25:42Now, this is just one piece of it.
25:44Ultimately, we need a lot of partners along the way in order to make this happen.
25:49So I call on the charging providers to continue to scale.
25:51I call on the policymakers, please work with us, work with the other charging providers
25:56to reduce the burden, to reduce the effort and cost in order to put charging in the ground.
26:01I call on the other OEMs to continue to make very compelling EV vehicles that allow for
26:07mass adoption quickly.
26:09We are really excited to bring the Semi to Europe.
26:12We think that it can blend low cost, high capability and long range into a unique product
26:17that addresses a wide variety of needs and applications within the European market.
26:22And we are excited to come along with everybody else here in moving towards a zero emission
26:26future and accelerating the world to sustainable energy and transportation.
26:30The future is electric.
26:32Thank you very much.
26:33Bill Gates has left the chat.
26:34Now, holy shit, dude, my head's kind of still spinning from this.
26:37Multiple variations on new products in the commercial transportation space.
26:42Let the speculation begin.
26:43So definitely didn't see that one coming.
26:45Here I was thinking I'd be seeing a few details about Tesla Semi, the progress they'd made.
26:50Interesting to know they replaced the diesel trucks in their own fleet.
26:53Cool.
26:54And out of abso-fucking-lutely nowhere, a range of new vehicles.
26:58So nice to know 50,000 units per year of Semi planned in the U.S. and then the next
27:03factory will be in Europe.
27:05Might be worth adding those to your Tesla valuation models.
27:08Damn.
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