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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 

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High conviction concentrated growth investing. Blends single stock, macro and thematic research into powerful long and short ideas. I am convinced that a robust and comprehensive investment process requires macro and micro considerations. And it requires a deep understanding what you are looking for and what you are invested in. Digitization has changed the dynamics both how businesses operate and how investors compete for returns. Ideas can scale much faster and fail much faster than before. The biggest value creation happens before it can be spotted in financial statements. As a result, my approach can be best summarized as high conviction, high concentration growth investing, embedded into a macro framework built on the realization that our current demographic set-up, monetary paradigm and innovation cycle will likely deliver a strong decade for nominal and real returns of productive assets.

<ul><li>For years, the company’s execution in the automotive hardware business has been disappointing.</li><li>The staler the product line-up got, the more margins got squeezed and growth expectations faltered.</li><li>This has put the FSD optionality front and center in the Tesla bull case. So much, that I had previously estimated that it commands north of 70% of the market capitalization.</li></ul>

For years, the company’s execution in the automotive hardware business has been disappointing.The staler the product line-up got, the more margins got squeezed and growth expectations faltered.This has put the FSD optionality front and center in the Tesla bull case. So much, that I had previously estimated that it commands north of 70% of the market capitalization.

The Most Surprising Thing About Tesla's 3Q24

<ul><li>Elon has given up on his ambitious targets. Or he has never seriously pursued them.</li><li>Tesla’s investor event “We, Robot” was nothing more than a theme park for adults who were there to indulge into an illusion for a night.</li><li>Why would they conduct such a ridiculous event that suggests that they have nothing up their sleeves that can create tens of billions of dollars of AI revenue soon? </li></ul>

Elon has given up on his ambitious targets. Or he has never seriously pursued them.Tesla’s investor event “We, Robot” was nothing more than a theme park for adults who were there to indulge into an illusion for a night.Why would they conduct such a ridiculous event that suggests that they have nothing up their sleeves that can create tens of billions of dollars of AI revenue soon? 

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<ul><li>Tesla is a polarizing company with both enthusiastic supporters and skeptical critics.</li><li>The company has the potential to become the most valuable in the world if it solves autonomous transportation.</li><li>The debate around Tesla is focused on its Full Self Driving software, which has recently transitioned to a neural net architecture and is best experienced firsthand at a Tesla delivery center.</li></ul>This content is sourced through publicly available sources and has been machine generated. Information displayed is for general informational purposes only. This article was originally published 3 months ago on Value Investors Club.

Tesla is a polarizing company with both enthusiastic supporters and skeptical critics.The company has the potential to become the most valuable in the world if it solves autonomous transportation.The debate around Tesla is focused on its Full Self Driving software, which has recently transitioned to a neural net architecture and is best experienced firsthand at a Tesla delivery center.This content is sourced through publicly available sources and has been machine generated. Information displayed is for general informational purposes only. This article was originally published 3 months ago on Value Investors Club.

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I am a value investor. "Value", as defined in Value Investing, is simply the act of buying something for less than its worth. I treat my equity investment as a loan to the business - where the priority is to get back my principal in full, rather than achieving maximum yield. I consider my equity investment as a slightly higher risk loan extended to the business with slightly more accommodative loan covenants - hence justifying a slightly higher yield. While I identify as a value investor and cover all stocks and macro topics indiscriminately, most of my research will have an ASEAN bent as that’s where I’m geographically located.

<ul><li>Takeaways: Biden plans to quadruple US/EU tariffs on Chinese EV imports.</li><li>This will further defend TSLA’s domestic beachhead: 1) 50% EV market share in the USA (No. 2: Ford 7% ) + 2) huge headstart over domestic auto incumbents in assembly line processes (Gigapress) &amp; high manufacturing concentration .</li><li>Together, this should result in superior economies of scale which translates into lower unit costs — increasingly important in a commoditizing US EV sector.</li></ul>

Takeaways: Biden plans to quadruple US/EU tariffs on Chinese EV imports.This will further defend TSLA’s domestic beachhead: 1) 50% EV market share in the USA (No. 2: Ford 7% ) + 2) huge headstart over domestic auto incumbents in assembly line processes (Gigapress) &amp; high manufacturing concentration .Together, this should result in superior economies of scale which translates into lower unit costs — increasingly important in a commoditizing US EV sector.

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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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