Tesla, Inc. Q2 FY2025 Earnings Call

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  • Robotaxi Launch & FSD Expansion: Tesla launched its first commercial robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, completing over 7,000 miles autonomously with no driver intervention or safety incidents. The service is expected to expand rapidly across major U.S. cities. Regulatory approvals are being sought in the San Francisco Bay Area, Arizona, Nevada, and Florida. Elon Musk projects availability of unsupervised FSD to roughly half of the U.S. population by year-end 2025.
  • Full Self-Driving (FSD) Developments:
    • Adoption of FSD rose 25% since Version 12 release.
    • FSD-equipped vehicles reportedly 10x safer than non-FSD ones.
    • Rollout of unsupervised FSD for personal use expected in select cities by end of 2025, pending regulatory approval.
    • FSD subscription remains $99/month and is being promoted more rigorously to increase awareness.
  • Financial Performance:
    • Automotive revenue: Grew 19% QoQ while deliveries rose 14%, driven by improved ASPs from new Model Y updates.
    • Margins: Sequential improvement driven by higher-volume models, fixed cost absorption, though offset by $300M in tariffs (with 2/3 affecting automotive).

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Travis Axelrod: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Tesla's Second 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 Q2 results were announced at about 3:00 p.m. Central Time, and 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. [Operator Instructions] Before we jump into Q&A, Elon has some opening remarks. Elon? Elon R. Musk: Thanks, Travis. So we've had a very exciting quarter. We were able to successfully launch robotaxi, so providing our first drives with no one in the driver seat with paying customers in Austin. And as some may have noted, we've already expanded our service area in Austin. It's bigger and longer. And it's going to get even bigger and longer. We were expecting to really greatly increase the Austin service area to well in excess of what competitors are doing. And that's hopefully in a week or so, 2 weeks? Vaibhav Taneja: Yes, a couple of weeks. Elon R. Musk: A couple of weeks or so. And we're getting the regulatory permission to launch in the Bay Area, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and a number of other p

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