Tesla, Inc. Q4 FY2024 Earnings Call

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Key Highlights from Tesla's Q4 2024 Earnings Call

  • Record Performance: Tesla delivered vehicles at an annualized rate of nearly 2 million, setting a new record. Model Y was the bestselling vehicle globally across all categories.
  • Autonomous Driving: Elon Musk emphasized Full Self Driving (FSD) as Tesla’s near-term growth catalyst. FSD Version 13 showed significant performance gains; Version 14 is in development with major architecture upgrades including expanding transformer model scale and context memory.
  • Unsupervised FSD Launch: Launching unsupervised FSD service in Austin in June 2025, expanding to other U.S. cities by year-end and globally in 2026, pending regulatory approval.
  • Humanoid Robot “Optimus”: Tesla aims to build several thousand Optimus robots in 2025 with internal deployment in factories. Production Design 2 expected to launch in 2026, targeting exponential ramping toward 1 million units/year long-term. Elon estimates eventual Optimus revenue potential north of $10 trillion.
  • Battery Supply Constraints: Production growth constrained by battery throughput. Tesla actively working on increasing gigawatt-hour output across its factories, including ramping new Megapack factory in Shanghai.

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Operator: Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to Tesla's Fourth Quarter 2024 Q&A Webcast. My name is Travis Axelrod, the Head of Investor Relations here at Tesla, and I am joined today by Elon Musk and Vaibhav Taneja and a number of other executives. Our Q4 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 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 has some opening remarks. Elon? Elon Musk: Thank you. So, in summary, in Q4, we set a record and delivered vehicles at an annualized rate of nearly 2 million a year. So, congratulations to the Tesla team on excellent work, achieving record production and deliveries. Model Y was the best-selling vehicle of any kind for 2024. That's worth noting. Not just the best electric vehicle, the best vehicle of any kind on earth, number one was Model Y. We're staying focused on maximizing volumes and obviously doubling down for, I don't know what, it really, I was going to say doubling down on a

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