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<ul><li>Tesla is once again reshaping the automotive and energy landscape with its latest wave of innovations that span from groundbreaking vehicle updates to advances in artificial intelligence and energy solutions.</li><li>The company’s updated Model Y in China, a redesign aimed at maximizing efficiency, represents just one facet of its dynamic transformation.</li><li>Recent Q3 2024 earnings discussions revealed record deliveries, improved vehicle safety metrics, and ambitious plans for scaling autonomous driving technologies and energy storage capabilities.</li></ul>

Tesla is once again reshaping the automotive and energy landscape with its latest wave of innovations that span from groundbreaking vehicle updates to advances in artificial intelligence and energy solutions.The company’s updated Model Y in China, a redesign aimed at maximizing efficiency, represents just one facet of its dynamic transformation.Recent Q3 2024 earnings discussions revealed record deliveries, improved vehicle safety metrics, and ambitious plans for scaling autonomous driving technologies and energy storage capabilities.

Tesla Innovations Unveiled: New Model Y & Robotics Breakthroughs That Will Blow Your Mind!

<ul><li>In early 2025, Tesla finds itself at a critical juncture as its global vehicle deliveries for 2024 dipped by 1% to 1.79 million units, marking the first annual decline in over a decade.</li><li>Despite this setback, Tesla's market capitalization surged by approximately 53%, positioning the company as a $1.2 trillion giant surpassing the combined value of the next 20 largest automakers.</li><li>This paradox underscores a shift in Tesla's valuation drivers—from traditional car sales to ambitious ventures in robotics, artificial intelligence, and the promising but uncertain robotaxi business.</li></ul>

In early 2025, Tesla finds itself at a critical juncture as its global vehicle deliveries for 2024 dipped by 1% to 1.79 million units, marking the first annual decline in over a decade.Despite this setback, Tesla's market capitalization surged by approximately 53%, positioning the company as a $1.2 trillion giant surpassing the combined value of the next 20 largest automakers.This paradox underscores a shift in Tesla's valuation drivers—from traditional car sales to ambitious ventures in robotics, artificial intelligence, and the promising but uncertain robotaxi business.

Tesla's Delivery Dilemma: How Chinese Rivals Are Stealing the Spotlight!

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<ul><li>Tesla has shortened its supplier payment cycle to about 90 days in 2024, continuing to outpace rivals in financial efficiency and supplier relations.</li><li>Tesla’s Shanghai factory, where 95% of parts are sourced locally, reflects the company’s deep integration with China’s supply chain.</li><li>The move highlights Tesla’s unique approach to balancing cost-cutting and supplier support in an industry under strain from intense competition, price wars and shifting dynamics between automakers and parts providers.</li></ul>

Tesla has shortened its supplier payment cycle to about 90 days in 2024, continuing to outpace rivals in financial efficiency and supplier relations.Tesla’s Shanghai factory, where 95% of parts are sourced locally, reflects the company’s deep integration with China’s supply chain.The move highlights Tesla’s unique approach to balancing cost-cutting and supplier support in an industry under strain from intense competition, price wars and shifting dynamics between automakers and parts providers.

Tesla Shortens Supplier Payment Terms to 90 Days Through Cost-Saving Innovations 

Asia and Global Semiconductor and Tech Research

Andrew Lu

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<li>Again, Tesla reports a 1Q24 sales with 4% miss but post market share price up more than 10% for 6 reasons. 1. Gross margin was stable on 15% sales drop;</li>
<li>2. ASP was stable; 3. Affordable EV on track for 2025; 4. Factory expansion to slow; 5. Optimus to sell end of 2025; 6. 2024 EV shipment higher than 2023.</li>
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<strong>Near term risks to remain</strong>: 1. When will margin trough? 2. Why bother to buy EV if 2nd hand market collapsing? 3. Will Robotaxi/FSD bring in meaningful sales/profits soon?</li>
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Again, Tesla reports a 1Q24 sales with 4% miss but post market share price up more than 10% for 6 reasons. 1. Gross margin was stable on 15% sales drop;
2. ASP was stable; 3. Affordable EV on track for 2025; 4. Factory expansion to slow; 5. Optimus to sell end of 2025; 6. 2024 EV shipment higher than 2023.

Near term risks to remain: 1. When will margin trough? 2. Why bother to buy EV if 2nd hand market collapsing? 3. Will Robotaxi/FSD bring in meaningful sales/profits soon?


Why Tesla Shows Post Results Rebound of over 10%?

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

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<ul><li>Its a quarter too soon to go dumpster diving in the automotive semiconductor industry. Another round of cuts is likely coming. Consider this my earnings preview.</li><li><p>I have leaned bearish automotive semiconductors for a few months, and I think the call has been mostly correct.</p></li><li><p>For me, the beginning of my bearishness started when I highlighted that China would try to murder the supply aspect of the market for the foreseeable future</p></li></ul><div data-component-name="DigestPostEmbed"><a href="https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/chinese-evs-and-the-lagging-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></div>

Its a quarter too soon to go dumpster diving in the automotive semiconductor industry. Another round of cuts is likely coming. Consider this my earnings preview.I have leaned bearish automotive semiconductors for a few months, and I think the call has been mostly correct.For me, the beginning of my bearishness started when I highlighted that China would try to murder the supply aspect of the market for the foreseeable future

Hitting the Breaks: Automotive Semiconductors

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Tesla Inc. operates as a multinational automotive and clean energy company. The Company designs and manufactures electric vehicles, battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. Tesla owns its sales and service network and sells electric power train components to other automobile manufacturers.

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Tesla Innovations Unveiled: New Model Y & Robotics Breakthroughs That Will Blow Your Mind!

Tesla is once again reshaping the automotive and energy landscape with its latest wave of innovations that span from groundbreaking vehicle...

Baptista Research

Tesla's Delivery Dilemma: How Chinese Rivals Are Stealing the Spotlight!

In early 2025, Tesla finds itself at a critical juncture as its global vehicle deliveries for 2024 dipped by 1% to 1.79 million units, marking the...

Baptista Research

Tesla Shortens Supplier Payment Terms to 90 Days Through Cost-Saving Innovations

Tesla has shortened its supplier payment cycle to about 90 days in 2024, continuing to outpace rivals in financial efficiency and supplier...

Caixin Global

Why Tesla Shows Post Results Rebound of over 10%?

Why Tesla Shows Post Results Rebound of over 10%? Tesla reports a 1Q24 sales with 4% miss but post market share price up more than 10% for 6 reasons.

Andrew Lu

Hitting the Breaks: Automotive Semiconductors

Its a quarter too soon to go dumpster diving in the automotive semiconductor industry. Another round of cuts is likely coming. Consider this my...

Fabricated Knowledge

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