Tesla, Inc. Q1 FY2025 Earnings Call

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  • Revenue & Deliveries: Lower vehicle deliveries in Q1 2025 compared to Q4 2024, attributed to planned factory upgrades for the new Model Y and brand challenges in certain markets. Despite the updates, Tesla completed a simultaneous global update for the best-selling Model Y across all factories.
  • Margins: Auto gross margin declined sequentially due to reduced delivery volumes and factory changeovers. Regulatory credit revenue declined, but was slightly offset by higher ASPs with the rollout of the updated Model Y.
  • Energy Business: Tesla’s energy segment reached record gross profit despite a sequential decline in deployments. The Megapack continues to gain traction, with several gigawatt-class projects underway. Powerwall 3 received strong market reception and is now supply-constrained.
  • Capital Expenditures: CapEx projection remains over $10 billion for 2025, driven by tariffs and the expansion of domestic manufacturing, including LFP battery cell facilities in the U.S. and Megafactory in China (now operational).
  • FSD (Full Self-Driving): Elon Musk reiterated unsupervised FSD rollout in multiple cities in the U.S. by the end of 2025, starting with Austin in June. Validation and AI updates are ongoing to reach meaningful safety metrics for autonomous capability.

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Operator: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Tesla's First Quarter 2025 Q&A Webcast. My name is Travis Axelrod, Head 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 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 or 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. Before we jump into Q&A, Elon will be providing an update. Elon? Elon Musk: Hello, everyone. Well, there’s never a dull moment these days. Thanks for sure. Every day is going to be exciting. As some people know, there's been some blowback for the time that I've been spending in government with the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. I think the work that we're doing there is actually very important for trying to sprain in the insane deficit that is leading our country, the United States, to destruction. And the DOGE team has made a lot of progress in addressing waste and fraud. The natural blowback from that is those who were r

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