Tesla, Inc. Q1 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Financial Performance (Compared to Q4 2023)
  • Revenue: Declined due to seasonality and macroeconomic pressures.
  • Automotive Gross Margin: Fell slightly from 18.9% to 18.5% primarily due to Cybertruck and updated Model 3 ramp costs; excluding these, margins improved slightly.
  • Energy Business: Achieved record profitability with margins reaching 24.6%. Energy deployments, especially Megapack, surged with 75% growth expected YoY.
  • Free Cash Flow: Negative $2.5B due to CapEx and inventory build. Expected to return to positive in Q2 2024.
  • Headcount Reduction: Over 10% workforce cut, expected to deliver annual savings exceeding $1B.
Business Highlights
  • Model 3: Significant ramp in Fremont; now offered with attractive leasing specials at $299/month.
  • Cybertruck: Reached 1,000 units per week. Ramp continues with focus on cost and quality.
  • FSD (Full Self-Driving): Version 12 rolled out to 1.8M vehicles across North America. Subscription price lowered to $99/month. 300B+ miles driven with supervised FSD so far.

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Martin Viecha: Tesla's First Quarter 2024 Q&A Webcast. My name is Martin Viecha, VP of Investor Relations, and I'm joined today by Elon Musk, Vaibhav Taneja, and a number of other executives. Our Q1 results were announced at about 3.00 p.m. Central Time in the Update Deck we published at the same link as this webcast. During this call, we will discuss our business outlook and make forward-looking statements. These comments are based on our predictions and expectations as of today. Actual events and results could differ materially due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those mentioned in our most recent filings with the SEC. During the question-and-answer portion of today's call, please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up. Please use the raise hand button to join the question queue. But before we jump into Q&A, Elon has some opening remarks. Elon? Elon Musk: Thanks, Martin. So to recap in Q1 we navigated several unforeseen challenges as well as the ramp of the updated Model 3 in Fremont. There was, as we all have seen, the EV adoption rate globally is under pressure and a lot of other auto manufacturers are pulling back on EVs and pursuing plug-in hybrids instead. We believe this is not the right strategy and electric vehicles will ultimately dominate the market. Despite these challenges, the Tesla team did a great job executing in a tough environment and energy storage deployments, the Megapack in particular, reached an all time high in Q1, leading

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