And investor relations. And I'm joined today by Elon Musk, Bob Teneja, and a number of other executives. Our Q2 results were announced in about 3 p.m. Central time in the update deck, the 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 what 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. Thanks, Travis. So we've had a very exciting quarter. The we're all too successfully launched robot taxi. So we're waiting up first. Drives with no one in privacy. And both paying customers in Austin. And as some may have known, we've already expanded our service area in Austin. It's a bigger and longer. And it's going to get even bigger and longer. We were expecting to really. It greatly increased the most and so, so area. To well and excessive what competitors doing. And that's hopefully in a week or so, two weeks. Yeah. Couple weeks, couple weeks or so.
And. And there were we're getting the regulatory commission to launch in the next week. We launched in the area. About. Arizona and a number of. And Florida and a number of other places. So as we. Get the approvals and we prove out safety. Then we'll be launching. To autonomous right hailing in. Most of the country. I think we'll probably. Have autonomous right hailing. And. We have. Half the population of the US by the end of the year. We have. We have. We have. We have. We have. We have. We have. That's that's we stuck all. Subtained to regulatory approvals. I. I think. We'll technically be able to. It's assuming we're regulatory approvals.
It's probably interesting. The population of the US. I did the year. But we. We are very cautious. We don't want to take any. Chances. And so. We're good. We're going to. Yeah. Go go cautiously. But. It's going to be a lot of. And the. We're really. We're. But. But. It's a. But. It's a. The. The. The. So. So. I'm. I'm. I'm. Other. Other. Other. Other. Other. Other. And autonomy is a big factor there. So even with that, even absolute, even with that supervised, even with just supervised self-driving, it's a huge selling point.
And it's worth noting that we do not actually yet have approval or supervised Aberste in Europe. So ourselves in Europe, we think, will improve significantly once we are able to give customers the same experience that they have in the US. This is, I think, a very important point to convey. We've been working with Bank Country Rape Leader, which is the Netherlands. And I think we're close to getting approval with the Netherlands. Then it's going to go to the EU. It's quite a. You know, Kafka-esque. In fact, Kafka-esque, no idea that's something like the EU could exist.
值得注意的是,我们实际上还没有在欧洲获得对Aberste的批准或监管。因此,我们认为,一旦能够为欧洲的客户提供与美国客户相同的体验,我们在欧洲的业务将会显著改善。我认为这是一个非常重要的观点。我们一直在与与荷兰的Bank Country Rape Leader合作,我认为我们快要获得荷兰的批准了。接下来,这将提交给欧盟。这整个过程有点像卡夫卡小说中的情节。事实上,卡夫卡式的情节居然存在于欧盟中。
I did, beyond Kafka-esque challenges with Europe or sea. But we won't get the approvals. And I think we'll get. Some people in Europe will have experience, some of them have the US in most of Europe. This year, hopefully, at least partially in this quarter. And then we also had from regular cloud, regular cloud challenges in China, which were hopefully unblocked shortly, where we also cannot provide suit by Aberste in China currently. We don't unblock that suit. And that's also. That's another major. It really is the single biggest demand drive.
And then within the US, as we are getting confident about safety in different geographic areas, the. we will. We will loosen up on how much somebody has to be laser focused. Have their eyes laser focused on the road. You know, that's been a common complaint. In fact, it does create an odd safety issue where people will sometimes disengage or to buy it. Then do something change the radio or maybe look at the phone, drive with a knee, and then reengage with a file, which obviously is nothing less to say than simply keeping what a file is on.
So anyway, we'll get that to experience. We'll improve in the next several weeks. The. Because of our focus on. Orstone with. Or Darwin's privacy. The production release of autopilot is actually several months behind what people experience on a robotaxle in the lost. So now we have the robotaxle in the lost and lost. We'll be providing. Adding back those elements so that there will be. There's step change, improvements in the. The autopilot experience. What people ask that lost in the lost.
This is really. As you can tell, this is very much sort of an autonomy is the story. Like we need the physical product without which you cannot have autonomy, but once you have a physical product, you need the autonomy is what amplifies the value to stratospheric levels. We also want the Tesla Diner, which has been a huge hit. Actually got worldwide attention, which is unusual for a Diner. Data's don't typically get that headline news around Earth. But this is a pretty special Diner. And if you're in the LA area, it's worth visiting. It's sort of a shining beacon of hope. And. But not otherwise, sort of leap of an landscape, frankly. It's a really quite a lovely experience. A great job, I think, as long as he's there. On the full software in front, continue to read about that.
We have. We're continuing to make significant improvements just from the software. So. The. We're expecting to increase the parameter account. Actually, at this point. I think we think we can probably 10X, the one was 10X, the parameter. The arrow fleets. Roughly 10X, the parameter account. So. This is actually a very tricky thing to do. Because as you increase the parameter account, you get a choke onto every bandwidth. But we currently think we can 10X, the parameter account, from what people are currently experiencing. So not just for it, it's actually 10X increases and parameter account. And. Yeah, so. So a lot of improvement on the existing hardware tends to happen.
Energy is growing really well. Despite headwinds from tariffs and spare supply chain challenges. The very pack is sphane capacity quickly. And I don't have upgrades, the negative pack that will make it even better. And we had record power wall deployments in our GANQQ too. So. I think. Battery batteries are going to just be a massive thing. That the scale of batteries, battery demand is, I think. Not that many people appreciate just how. Gigantic the scale of battery demand is. The way you think about it is that the US sustained power output from the US grid is around one terro-what.
But average usage is less than half the terro-what. But if you add batteries to the mix, you can run the power plants 24, 7 at full capacity. That's doubling, more than doubling. The energy output per year of the United States is just with batteries. But that's again. Big deal, it's a really big deal. Optimus, so we're revolving up to Optimus design. I'm really getting Optimus to the point where it is a phenomenal design. So, an Optimus version 2 right now, sort of 2 and a half.
Optimus 3 is. It is an exquisite design in my opinion. And. will be an incredible. As I've said many times before, it will be the biggest product ever. It's a very hard problem to solve. You have to design every part of it from physics first principles. There's nothing that's off the shelf that actually works. So you're going to design every motor of gearbox, power electronics, control electronics, sensors, the mechanical elements. We also got trained Optimus to. You use its lemon-centered sensors with a neural net.
But we'll be applying the same techniques that we were applying for a car, which is essentially a four-wheeled robot. And Optimus is a robot with arms and legs. So the same principles that apply to Optimus A.I. Inference are the car applied to Optimus. Because they're both really robots in different forms. And Tesla, it is important to know that Tesla is by far the best in the world and real world A.I. Like a clear proof point, but that would be. If you compare it to Tesla's Waymo, Waymo's got. The car is best doing it with God knows how many sensors.
And yet, isn't Google good at A.I.? Yes, but they're not good at real world A.I. That's part. They have. Tesla is actually much better than Google by far. And any. Much more than anyone at real world A.I. And I think. And by far Tesla has the best Inference efficiency. Like I think a key figure of R.I. What is the intelligence for a gigabyte? People know about parameters. But I think. But I'm talking about parameters and talk about gigabytes.
Because with the parameters, you can have four but parameters, eight but parameters, sixteen but parameters. But the actual constraints in the hardware are. How many gigabytes of RAM and how many gigabytes per second can you transfer from RAM? Therefore, it's not a parameter constraint. It is a. There's a byte constraint. And Tesla has the highest intelligence density of any A.I. by far. And I have a little insight into this with XAI. XAI is. You know, GROC is the sponsor of the A.I. Overall, but it's a.
You know, GROC 4 is a giant beast. There's the. The terabyte level. And. So it's. Kind of a. Important to know it tells that Tesla has the best intelligence density. And intelligence density will be a very good deal with the future. It is not. So. With the Optimus 3. Which is really the right design. It doesn't have. At this point, there's no. No significant. Significant flaws with the Optimus 3 design. But we are going to retool a bunch of things. So it's. And it'll probably be. Productives of Optimus 3 into this year. And then scale production next year. And to try to scale Optimus production as fast as it's even like possible to do so. And try to get to the million units a year as quickly as possible. We think we can get them less than five years. It's my sort of. I guess. That's a reasonable aspiration. It's. Your million units a year. Five years. It seems like an adorable target.
It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's a. Lard and A.C. have said we would not achieve. And it's worth noting that the. We have done what we said we're going to do. And we're always on time. But we get it done. And on A.C. have us. us sitting there with egg on their face. So. Great, great progress by the Tesla team. Yeah, I do think if Tesla continues to execute well with big, large economy. And. And human rights, large economy. It will be the most valuable company in the world. There's a lot of execution between here and there. It doesn't just happen. But. We're about it. We. Execute very well. I think Tesla has a shot at being the most valuable company. The most valuable company in the world. I'm obviously extremely optimistic about future of the company.
This way to predict the future is making it happen. We're making it happen here with Tesla team. So I'd just like to say thanks to all of us, borders. And I think we're going to tell you an incredibly exciting future. Great. Thank you very much, Elon. And that not has a very much as long. Service. As Elon mentioned, Q2 was an interesting quarter in a few respects. We started ramping up the production of the new model Y at all of factories. We rolled out our robot access service in Austin and delivered a car completely autonomously from directly from the factory to the customer's home. It is a seminal point to get to this thing. I mean, it took a lot of effort and I really want to thank everybody at Tesla to make this.
It wasn't an easy thing to do, but we did it. It took time, but we've just begun the next phase for the company. The one big bill has a lot of changes that would affect our business and the near term. The first among those changes is the repeal of the IRA, e.v. credit of 7,500 by the end of this walk. Given the up to change, we have limited supply of vehicles in the U.S. Disco order as we have already within the times to order parts with cars. We've rolled out all our planned incentives already and will start paying them back as we start to sell. Pure the U.S. and looking to buy a car, this year or now, as we may not be able to guarantee delivery orders placed in the later part of this and beyond.
We'll also make changes to certain emission standards by releasing the amount of penalty to sale. This in turn will have an impact on the new sales of regulatory credits to other events and in turn, really to know where I meet. I mean, now, plan a business around such sales. It will nonetheless impact our total revenues quite far. The automotive product portfolio, the entire lineup is updated. Lowly we're seeing an increase in the number of test drives. We started the production of the low cost oil as planned in the first half of 25. I were given our focus on building and delivering as many vehicles as possible in the U.S. before the e-coded expires and the addition complexity of ramping a new product.
The ramp will happen next quarter, slower than we wish we expected. One thing which is grossly appreciated and Elon talked about it is that all our vehicles in the lineup are capable of a done. This is by far the biggest differentiator between us and the competition. Our vehicles stop safety standards as is, but with FSD, they are and will continue to set the new standard for safety within regular transportation. We published our vehicles have to report earlier today. You can see a car on FSD is 10x safer than the car not on FSD. We've started seeing an uptick in FSD adoption in North America in recent months, which is a very promising trend.
And just to give you perspective, you know, since the launch of since we moved to version 12 of FSD, we've seen the adoption rates really increase. If started seeing the on the automated revenue front, despite reduction and regulatory training and the auto, the product automotive and increased by 19% sequentially, even the product delivery is only improved 14%. This was primarily due to an improved ASBs because of the new model Y. This had been improving margin sequentially as well, along with improved mix and higher cost fixed cost absorption, despite an increase in cost of tariffs.
We've started seeing the impact of tariffs in our B&L sequentially the cost of tariffs increased around 300 million with approximately two thirds of that impact in automotive and less in energy. However, given the latency in manufacturing and sales, the full impacts will come through in the following quarters, and so cost will increase in the middle. While we're doing our best to manage these impacts, we are in an unpredictable environment for the tariff front. The margins for the energy generation storage businesses in towards sequentially while deployment reduced primarily due to the ramp of power deployments at high margins.
You were able to achieve our highest cost profit for the business yet. Note that the overall deployments will continue to vary quarter to quarter. Think you know how it does that, you know, industrial storage will make a difference in this drive towards AI and data sector growth. The energy requirements are increasing at a rapid scale as application as a applications are very energy healthy. The quickest part to scale up energy is deployments to work. This is something that the customers have started realizing and destroyed this business having the largest impacts from tariffs.
We're seeing customers willing to accept some of the tariff impacts. The big bill has certain awards impacts even for the energy business most notably on the residential storage business due to the early expiration of cousin's even cut this part end of this year. The challenges of the storage business therefore remain both from the bill and from tariffs. And we're doing our best to try and manage through this, but it will we will see shifts and demand and profitability.
The margins for our service and other businesses improves sequentially primarily due to higher profits from supercharging and improvement in insurance and service center profitability. Operating expenses also grew sequentially as we continue our investment in air projects, including additional expenses related to employee related costs including higher stock risk compensation and depreciation for air compute. Our operating expenses, especially a lot indeed related spend will continue to grow. We believe even in the current environment, it is the right strategy to keep making investments in these areas to position us for the long term.
Other income grew sequentially primarily from the market adjustment on red corn buildings, which was 284 million gain in Q2 while being 125 million loss in Q1. Just wanted to remind people that this would keep creating volatility based on the Bitcoin pricing. While operating cash was increased sequentially, so did our catbacks resulting in 146 million of free cash flow. We continue to make investments in various aspects of manufacturing like cybercab, semi lines and other manufacturing spend and the expansion of our air initiatives. Our latest expectation for the year in terms of capax is in excess of 9 billion.
To summarize, we have needed to allege in our business due to the negative impacts of the bill and tariffs. However, the investments that we have made for AI, robotics and our lead in energy sets us up for a bright future. I would like to thank the whole Tesla team, our customers, investors and supporters for their continued belief in us. Great. Thank you very much, Bethel.
So now we're going to move on to say our con questions. The first question is, can you give us some insight on how robot taxis have been performing so far and what rate you expect to expand in terms of vehicles, geofence, cities and supervisors? Yes, robot actually has been doing great so far in Austin, customer should have the experience. Like super smooth, very safe and like just a great experience overall.
And we already did the first day of expansion Austin and continue to expand in Austin to probably more than 10 extra our current operating region. We're also testing in order for the cities as you all mentioned, the next thing to expand would be in the San Francisco Bay area. We are working with the government to get approval here and meanwhile launch the service with the person that I received just to expedite and widely wait for regulatory approval. We're also testing in order for the cities in the US, including Florida, Nevada, etc. Thank you very much.
The next question is, what are the key technical and regulatory hurdles still remaining for unsupervised FSD to be available for personal use? Keep it by the timeline. We're certainly getting there. I think it'll be available for unsupervised personal use by the end of this year in certain geographies. We're just being very careful about it. This is not something which we don't do much. We want to make sure that everything is safe before we maintain for available broadly.
We're extremely friendly. Yes. But I'll be I'm confident that by the end of this year within a number of cities in the US, we will help you available to end users like. For what is within the same way hardware in the Austin robot taxi vehicles has some customer vehicles and we did your car autonomously from the factory to a customer this one. Yes.
And every test I'm manufactured in the US and in Europe, autonomous headlights itself from the end of time to the loading blocks. And so it's just as hot out of beta. I think we'll be willing to put delivering cars in the greater Western area. And the Bay Area by default from the factory by the end of this year. I could call well deliver itself to your yard unless you say you don't want to. There be some cool.
Okay. Thank you guys. The next question is what specific factory tasks is Optimus currently performing and what is the expected timeline for scaling production to enable external sales? Have a Tesla envisioned Optimus contributing to revenue the next two to three years? Yeah. So. The Optimus Optimus 3 design, as I mentioned earlier, is I think finally the right design the way for the optimizations, but they're not.
I think of fundamental changes to that are needed for the Optimus 3 design. It has all the degrees of freedom that you really want. So it's, you know, I've prototypes of that and I don't know three or three months and it's such a long production. We'll certainly start production on that in the beginning next year. The production around simple, so is a conflict.
The ES curve of your production around. When something is got an entire when everything is new because the rate of production will move as fast as the least lucky and least competent elements of the entire supply chain as well as internal processes. So the more new stuff that is in a product, the slower the ramp could be because of unexpected supply chain interruptions or the states made it internally.
As much as it's predicted. So the end of the end of the ES curve or late in the ES curve, then the beginning of the ES curve. And the beginning of the ES curve of the production around. In any case, not really material for any purposes. The beginning of the ES curve key. And you're usually, I usually always negative, of course, margin.
And you're debugging in my issues. So. That's why I like it's it's I feel like fairly confident predicting things. Please medium confident in predicting where we are five years, but it's hard to predict where we are in a year or two years. So that's why I think five years. I think we could be at the. Let me put this right. I'll be surprised if at the end of five years. 60 months from now, if we are not. Roughly making a hundred thousand optimists, robots in one. In 60 months, I would be shocked. Sorry.
Thank you very much. Next question is, can you provide an update on the development and production timeline for tests as more affordable models? And what are these models balanced cost reduction profitability? And what impact do you expect on demand in the current economic climate? Well, I think by the way, good job of answering this question is opening remarks. As we said, we start production in June and we're writing it all we built some things around the quarter. And given that that we're starting North America and the. Our goals to maximize production.
I rate defending Q three. We're going to keep pushing hard on our current models, with way computing. Fortunately, it was away and we'll be ready for more affordable models available for going to Q four. And you know, the goal of both products was not to negatively impact revenue or gross margin, but just to make a. The car that everyone loves at once at a more affordable price. Great. Thank you, Lars.
The next question is, can you talk about the benefits of Tesla investing in X. This is not the forum for this. I mean, if there is something which we need to discuss, we'll discuss it separately. I think obviously, you know, we're publicly created company shareholders are welcome to put forward any shoulder proposals that they'd like. I recently encouraged that. And then have shareholders vote and will act in accordance with the shareholder wishes.
Great. Thank you very much. The next question is, can you tell us a little bit more about what goes on in a Tesla design studio. Do you want me to take that one? We can't generally say that. What happens in the studio stays in the studio. And that, you know, earnings calls are not the place to disclose new product stuff, but we're, you know, working to. We have an exciting future for Tesla in our in the product lineup.
Yeah, there's a lot of exciting things happening in the studio. It's not like static. And really, what's going to happen over the next several years is a fundamental transformation of the company from the pre autonomy wall to opposed autonomy. And I'm working on a new master plan to articulate that. Tesla team. And. You know, they're there are there will be some heating pains as you transition from pre autonomy to a positive timing world.
But I think that the future version of Tesla is currently exciting. And we'll profoundly change the world in a good way. So you sound like sort of I have a bit. I think if we'll let you say if we execute on a plan effectively, which is you have to actually do that. Tesla will be the most valuable company in the world by far. Thank you.
The next question is actually do book it on unsupervised. Do you question vehicles? And after that is are there any news for hardware three users getting retrofits or upgrades? Will they get hardware for or some future version of hardware five? I mean, what we want to do is we want to get unsupervised done on hardware for first. Once it's done, then we'll go back and look at what we need to do with the hardware three cars.
I mean, the like I said the focus is first to get unsupervised out. And then we'll go back and see what more work you need to do. Okay. Next question question is, can you give an update on dojo and could XA I be a customer for dojo? Dojo to we expect to have dojo to operating in scale sometime next year. With scale being somewhere around 100 K a 200 equivalent.
And. And then a five which is really spectacular to use those words. Lightly spectacular to the AI five truck will be hopefully be in volume production around the end of next year. That has a lot of potential. I think you know, think about dojo three and the AI six in first chip. It seems like intuitively you we want to try to find convergence there.
It's basically the same chip. But is used what we use a two of them in a car or an optimist. And maybe a larger number on a on a board. And then you can find a five or 12 on a board or something like that. If you want high bandwidth communication between the chips. For serving. Digging it burns. That sort of seems like intuitively the sense of way to go.
Great. The next set of questions have all actually been covered. So we'll end with that. How will the BBV elimination of tax credits for solar projects affect your sales pipeline for mega back? Yeah, our sales pipeline is quite diversifying across customers and market segments. So we aren't heavily weighted and mega pack projects that are paired with solar.
And as we talked about in the opening remarks for seeing storage quickly being recognized for its ability to unlock great efficiency and how quickly it can be deployed to help the grid. Additionally, although the recent bill was not favorable towards solar, we believe solar projects will still get built because the energy is necessary. The projects are well developed and they're ready for execution and. There's really no alternatives in the near term given gas turbine lead time and pricing. We also continue to see growth in the data center segment and then stand alone storage projects providing capacity to the grid.
In several markets across the US. So we're forecasting a very strong second half of the year as we increase deployments. And lastly, we continue to invest heavily in US manufacturing to mitigate policy and tariff impacts, expecting our first. LFP sell manufacturing facility to be online by the end of the year and launching our third mega factory near Houston and 2026. Thank you, Mike. We will now be moving to endless questions.
The first question comes from a manual Rosner at Wolf Research. Many will please feel free to unmute yourself whenever you're ready. Great. Thank you so much. Can you hear me? Yep. Thanks. So, Elon, are you able to share any KPI with us in terms of the robot taxi business? How many vehicles are you operating? Miles driven autonomously or the number of safety critical intervention? Just curious, you know, how the rollout is it generally is going in any sort of like targets that you could share more broadly. Sure.
Yeah. We have more than 7000 miles operating in Austin area. It's just because services new. We have. And full of vehicles right now, but then we're trying to expand the service in terms of both the area and also the number of vehicles for the Austin and other locations. So far, you know, the. There's like no notable safety critical incidents there. You know, sometimes we have our own restrictions as to, for example, we are instinctive or speedy to 40 miles per hour.
And the vehicle wants to go on like high speed or speak and stop the vehicle, but those are a lot of convenient. I suppose to say critical nature. So for the service that we really will receive and we continue to expand on it. Great. And then. Yeah, longer term from an economic point of view, longer term, you've previously talked about working to drive down the cost per mile on the robot axes, maybe towards 30 or 40 cents per mile over time.
Now that your service is live, how should we think about the main milestones to getting there? Yeah, what the cybercam is, which is really optimized for autonomy. That I think has got to probably sub 30 cent per mile potential over time, maybe 25. Yeah, it's really. You're like if you design a car from scratch to be a cost optimized robotic taxi, thanks to every cap. You know, you're like, for example, we're not trying to make it, you know, corner, like a, like incredibly well, like a model three would, you know, or model S or even model white.
Like it's got more, most of this, you know, model all about all of our cars that are driven by people are super fun to drive. They've got incredible acceleration. You know, the incredible cornering capability. But we're confident that very few people in a cybercap want to be hoodling around. So, you know, so we were, we've reduced the top end speed, which means we can use more efficient tires. We don't need as much acceleration.
We don't need as much. You know, fake breaks, sort of, we weren't stopping distance, but we were not expecting it to be heavily used. It's a gentle right, essentially, you've, you've decided for a gentle right. And, and then you, you have a much more optimized, optimized design point. So that that's why it seems probably achieved that. Especially often optimizes, you know, so, so, being cleaning up the car and making maintenance and stuff.
And it's, you know, what automatic charging. So it, I think it's going to actually cost for a mile of cybercap will be very low. The cost for a mile of our existing fee will be higher, but still very competitive. So, yeah, maybe some number of 50 cents in viscosity. Yeah, so this really tells road taxi people go from tiny to gigantic in terms of operations. And pretty sure period of time.
Like my guess is, as it has a material impact on our financials around the end of next year. Thank you very much. The next question comes from Adam at morning Stanley. Adam, please unmute yourself. Great. Hello, everybody. So Elon as Tesla moves into this next phase of physical AI, autonomous human, human, robot taxes, etc. World changing, civilizational species, species changing technology with dual purpose.
Are you comfortable moving Tesla in this direction, while only having a 13% stake in the economy. Sorry, in the company, is that sustainable or does the still insist that something needs to happen, given, you know, your current lack of control and the types of technologies you're getting into. Yeah, that is a major concern for you. As I mentioned in the past, and I hope that is addressed at the upcoming shareholders meeting. But yeah, it is a big deal. You know, I want to find that I've got like so little control that I can easily be ousted by activist shareholders after having bolts. You know, these is army of humanoid robots. I think that as I mentioned before, I think my control of a Tesla should be enough to ensure that it goes in a good direction, but not so much control that I can't be thrown out if I go crazy.
Okay, Elon, you're not going to go crazy. We trust you. You can stay a little crazy, a little crazy is okay. Elon, no, we understand the board of directors of a major US investment bank recently toward optimist production. I don't know if you want to confirm that or not. It's just what we've heard. That's cool. Well, when do you think others will be able to get a firsthand view of optimists like that? And it's the second half of this year too soon to have an AIDA because it seems like everybody else in the world's doing it and this talent war is getting freaking crazy.
And I know you mentioned for recruiting purposes. It's a very important thing that you've done. I think people have copied you on this and I'm wondering if this is if this year's too early for that. Thanks, Elon. It's a bit of a tough thing because like when we do an AIDA, we find that several of them literally done a frame by frame examination of our slides and everything we say and then coffee is. So, you know, I've say like what's the trade off we just help with recruiting, but then competitors look very closely in copious.
I mean, that said we should probably I mean, I guess we could consider the shareholder meeting to be sort of an eight. We can do we can maybe go into depth some some amount of depth at the I know showholder meeting with respect to optimists and AI and sort of that action chip stuff perhaps. Yeah, it tells us that we're also really underrated in terms of AI chip design as well as I software. So like this little nut, I showed that we were that that exists that we will prefer to point on a car that is any I just that we would prefer to put in the car over our own. And even though it's been now opposable years.
And we're confident that the environment will be a profound danger. In fact, it's so powerful that we'll have to nerf it for some degree for markets outside of the US because it's low way past the export restrictions. So less export restrictions change. We actually will have to know if our AI by showers to look kind of weird hopefully those hopefully we keep in raising the bar on export restrictions otherwise the kids but silly. We'll have a bunch of optimists from once on stage. At the showholder meeting. The optimist and atmosphere is cool to see it looks like it basically looks like the center westworld.
It's probably robots and various stages. Some of them. At various stages of prepare. Like I don't know some some combination of like the tattooing junkyard and the and westworld. And optimist is walking around the office here in pile. So 24 seven is just walking around like it's normal. And I think I'm so if you're optimist like you know that has a diner so we'll go on. Yeah, so it's we'll go from world where robots are rare to where they're so common that you don't even look up. Great. Thank you so much.
The next question comes from Edison at Georgia bank. S&P Sun New Year's South. And simply go ahead and unmute yourself. Right. Well, Edison figures that out. We will go to the next question, which is going to come from Dan Levi at Barclays. Dan, please go ahead and unmute yourself. Great. Thank you. You want to talk about the opportunity to put non Tesla own vehicles into the robot taxi network. Just talk about the gating factors to enabling that and what timeline we should expect on. Personally own vehicles in the robot taxi network.
So we haven't really thought hard about that. I really need to make sure it works when the vehicles are fully under our control. And he has kind of wants to stay for the time here. We don't want to jump again. As I said, we're going paranoid about safety. So. So it's like. But I guess. I guess it would do like next year is. I'd say confidently next year. I'm not sure when next year, but confidently next year. People will be able to add or subtract their car to the Tesla fleet.
I mean, one thing to keep in mind is that we will have some criteria because like even when you put your car in a world lift need. I go through a checklist process of making sure things are working. Second, everything be your. Yes, bad. We will do something like that. Yes. We want to be parallel on the security. As it's more things like trend on the tire can't have an impact on safety. So that's why we would want to do some proper validation before we let other cars come in. So that's what we're going to do.
So that's what we're going to do. Did you evolve it? Yes, thank you. Could you just unpack the different costs associated with scaling the robotaxe business and how you think about. And then you can use, you know, would you just fund it off the balance sheet? Well, as there is a clear cash flow stream associated with any product, you can defend. And in the interim. We will use our balance sheet, but like once we get to a certain scale in terms of the current news.
Like Elon said, we could get into an easily a kind of transaction to try and get funny. Great. Thanks much. We will now move on to Mark from Goldman Sachs. Mark, please feel free to unmute yourself. Yes. Good afternoon. Thank you very much for taking the questions with the FSD trials that Tesla has been offering to consumers and the attention on self driving more generally. Are you a bit more specifically on what you're seeing with FSD subscription trends and take rates and help us better understand how large FSD revenue may be currently.
Well, we've definitely I mentioned it in my opening remarks since we've launched version 12 of FSD in North America. We've definitely seen a marked improvement in the FSD adaption. And it's the other thing which we had also done last year is we did bring down the pricing and we made subscription much more affordable. So we have seen you know, 45% increase since that time. So which is an encouraging trend, but honestly, we we've just started the story around explaining the benefits of FSD, which I like I said before we released our vehicle safety board.
And if you don't believe in this anything else, a car on FSD being 10X safer should be a motivator. Plus the other thing is people don't realize even at $99 a month. It's like you're getting a first one show for almost $3.33 a day. And this is my father biggest game changer, which I know we've been talking about it because part of it is we live and breathe it. But yeah, the best people still don't know.
Yeah, but the vast majority of people don't know it exists. And it's still like half of Tesla owners who could use it haven't tried it even once. This they don't actually realize that. I think this is something we want to educate them on. So we've got a when they come in for service. We'll reach out to them send them like videos of how to make work. And most of it's such a shocking thing. They don't think the car is capable of this.
So you have to have to show them and and and get the comfortable returning it on. It's so trivial, but it's. It's like saying you've got a cat sing a dance, but it just looks like an old cat. And you're like, you know, until you see the cat sing a dance and talk like you're seeing was just a cat. That's that's Tesla Steve. Yes, our car is intelligent. And so what we're going to do to Elon's point, like we've been giving the free time to try and try this is deep.
We'll start giving more prompt to say, OK, this particular drive, try FSD. So that I mean, because it's literally seeing is believing like you lots had it's. Think of it like a cat. It looks like a normal cat, but this cat can sing a dance. Yeah, same thing on it. Great. Yeah. And that 25% comment was 25% increase in the penetration. Yes, since we've seen the release of D12 B30 head in North America.
Great. Thank you. Mark, did you have a follow up question? Yeah, I think strives Tesla has historically said it would use pricing as one tool to help drive auto vehicle growth as long as free cash flow state positive given the ability to monetize products like FSD. I'm curious how you're thinking about pricing from here as an essential tool to drive increased volumes given where you stand with FSD, as well as the fact that the IRA purchased tax credits are poised to go away in the US started in the fourth quarter.
Yes, should we expect more meaningful price reductions given that monetization potential or do you envision price reductions be more limited compared to cost downs given where free cash flow now stands thanks. Well, we're in this like we're transition period where we'll lose a lot of incentives in the US. So in centers actually many other parts of the world, but we'll listen in the US. And because so if it at the early stages of autonomy.
On the other hand, autonomy is most advanced and most available from a regulatory standpoint in the US. So. I mean, does that mean like we could have a few rough quarters? Yeah, we probably could have a few rough quarters. I'm not saying they're well, but we could. Q, you know, Q4, Q1. Maybe Q2, but once you get to autonomy at scale in the second half of the next year, certainly by the end of next year. I think the. I'm really surprised if Tesla economics are not very compelling. Great. The next question is going to come from Will for truest will please feel free to unmute yourself when you're ready.
Great. Thanks so much for taking my questions. First, I'd like to ask for a little bit more detail about the lower costs model that you talked about having. I think started production in the first half, but you said will ramp later. At the last analyst days I recall you talked about some aspects of this like two, two thirds of three quarters reduction and so can carbide and not using rare earths in the. In the motor and perhaps other cost downs. You also had this unboxed architecture that I think you said would not be part of this sort of interim approach. Can you update us on what we should expect this thing to actually look like?
We want to get into the looks because it's a model. What? The count of the dancing cat that can sing a dance. Can't talk and sing it. That's a cool part. Yeah, I mean, the fundamentally the biggest obstacle remains that people just don't have. Some people don't. The desire to buy the cars very high. Just people don't have enough money in the bank account to buy it. And so that's literally that is the issue. Not not a lack of desire, but a lack of ability. So the more affordable we can make the car the better. I think it's just going to be it will be a very big deal when people can. Release their car to the fleet and have it earn money for them, which I'd like to say. I think I feel confident and saying that'll happen next year in the US at least in the US where. Where legally allowed. That's how it's going to go. That's what theclockwise, the traffic is as clean as.
And they'll make the affordability dramatically greater. Just like, you know, if you have an FD and you and you grin at your home when you're not there, right now, to guess, room or guest house, or something like that, you're the affordability feel home is much greater. Okay, trying another, another topic, then, can you know. We see all these wonderful developments at XAI, like GROC. And obviously, Tesla is trying to do quite a bit in AI. Elon, how do you manage the division of efforts and recruiting and talent and capital between these two that seem like there's a very high potential that they can in fact compete?
Well, they are doing different things here. So, you know, the XAI is doing like, you know, terabyte scale models and multi-terabyte scale models. Tesla's 100 times smaller models. So, one's real world AI and one's kind of, I guess, a lot of potential super intelligence type thing. I mean, the really kind of, the genesis for XAI was that there were certain people who some people would not join Tesla, AI engineers, because they wanted to work on ASI, and they would join Tesla. And I was like, well, maybe they'll join a new company. And I think the Tesla problem is extremely important, but not everyone agrees with me on that. And so, rather than having them join, you know, opening AI or Google or whatever, some of the company, it's like, as well, having a creative company in that regard, which is XAI.
So, if that's, you know, and people make a decision, do they want to work on the super intelligence data center or real world AI? They're both compelling problems, but some people would want to work on one, some one would work on the other. Great. And, unfortunately, that is all the time we have today. Thank you everyone so much for your questions, and you'll see next quarter. All right, hey everybody. Give me a one second here. Pause that music there. Tesla wrapping up. And we'll just go through some takeaways. Let me let me off the sound as working okay. Hopefully, looks like it should be. Make sure we got everything set up here.
Yeah, it looks like, I don't know, the stock, I think was maybe slightly up, maybe slightly down. Prior to the call, it looks like we're down about four and a half percent now. Not sure if there was anything super in particular that caused that. It seemed like kind of a steady drop throughout the call. I don't know if it was one comment in particular. It didn't want to feel like it was. Let me know. We'll look back through the notes as well. But I don't know. I didn't think it was a bad call by any means. I think there was a lot of exciting stuff in there.
I think anytime there's sort of management acknowledgement that there could be some rough quarters in the future that tends to make the market a little bit nervous. Usually company management for like broadly speaking here most companies is going to paint things as like optimistically as possible. And not to say that Tesla is not trying to do that or not even unintentionally doing that themselves. But I also think Tesla is probably some people will find this maybe ironic.
But I do think Tesla is more direct about some of the negatives. Maybe not in every single situation. But situations like this where Elon is specifically saying like, oh, there might be some tough quarters here in Q4, Q1 in particular. I mean, we were talking about that earlier today, right? It shouldn't be surprising to anyone. It's very forecastable, especially when you understand that EV credit is going away. So I don't mind the acknowledgement of that. I think it's, you know, totally again, something to be expected.
But again, as we talked about earlier today, what's most important is making sure that the business is at a level that it can continue to support the investments that Tesla is making and what they want their future to be. That is what shareholders are owning the shares for is that future potential of the business and people that are good with that direction. I think there's a lot in this call to be excited about.
And the less exciting parts of it, I think are things that are pretty well known or pretty well understood in terms of just some of the challenges that Tesla is working through as we're really in between growth phases and a transition phase right now, as Elon talked about. But on the sort of what Tesla is becoming side, I think there's a lot to be excited about.
And I think Elon started off the call saying, you know, we're going to go back here. And just go through some of the notes here. Just making sure again the audio is good. Looks like it is. So yeah, expecting to greatly increase the sort of service area, I think it probably would surface on accident there, but service area to well and accessible competitors are doing.
We talked a little bit about that earlier today with Waymo quickly following up with Tesla's expansion. I talked a little bit about how maybe that's Waymo's expansion isn't quite as meaningful because they're also partnering with Uber. So they don't need to really make sure that that entire area is well covered because they have that fallback of Uber drivers to rely on versus Tesla.
It's just that's the Robotaxi service area. If you are in one part of it and you call for the vehicle, it needs to come get you. It doesn't have a choice to send a Uber driver. So as Tesla expands that service area, I think that is extremely meaningful. Maybe not in this first iteration, but certainly I think at some point they mentioned here something to the degree of maybe like 10 times that service area is, I think that was more of like their ultimate goal.
But just the fact that they anticipate this happening very quickly is important. I think Elon said in here maybe even the next week or certainly in the next couple of weeks, see if I can find that note, that they would be expanding that service area in Austin. So I think that's encouraging. I think the portion of the discussion around the sort of focus of FSD really being on that service area in Austin and this Robotaxi rollout and things like that. I think Tesla seems very happy with that performance. And I think as they've said previously, the things that are driving that performance are not really making their way into the production software yet that people are able to use version 13.12.9. I think we're on right now. But once these things do make it into those vehicles, it should be hopefully quite another step forward like we have seen really all of the last major releases from Tesla.
I think version 11 to version 12 was a huge step change. I think version 12 to version 13 was a huge step change. And now we've been on version 13 for a long time and there's a good reason to believe even if you set aside Robotaxi and what Tesla has accomplished there, I think there's good reason to believe with the amount of time that Tesla has had and the amount of resources that Tesla has put forth here. I think there's good reason to believe that we'll see another major step forward with FSD with whatever the next release is. And it's already so good that it's I mean Elon was saying months ago and people would kind of like make fun of him for saying that's that it's like hard to tell which version is better because the interventions are becoming so rare.
That is my lived experience with my vehicle. So when we start to talk about even taking steps forward from there, it's getting to the point where it's almost going to be difficult for customers to notice because it is so good. But Tesla at a high level has very good awareness of what that is going to look like when it's something that is deployed in vehicles that are driving a billion miles a quarter. Then you get very good data showing that improvement and probably most importantly, getting to that point where all right, these interventions are becoming so rare that we're comfortable with both you know, a Robotaxi initial launch here and then expanding that in other areas and then eventually, you know, just basically rolling it out to the entire fleet anywhere that regulators will allow it.
And we're on that path, right? And there's a lot of positive signs pointing towards that path continuing. So that's sort of the biggest thing that I'm looking for in this call. That's the future of Tesla. And I think there was many positives about that future that were covered on the call. Specifically here, this note that I've got up the 10 times parameter count, I think, is important. Tesla with the version 13 software, they put that in an upcoming release, they would have four times the parameter count. So it sounds like not only are they confident in that, but they're confident that they can even continue to take that another step further, getting up to 10 times the parameter count with the current hardware.
And then that's just the current hardware pretty quickly. We're going to be moving into AI five hardware, which has, I don't know, since I've been driving version 13, it's like, yep, this is amazing. I don't see any reason why another hardware iteration, like couldn't pretty easily get this done with just the rate of progress that we've seen from Tesla and how much progress hardware four unlocked. And I think we're still in not maybe the early stages of hardware four, but certainly not at the end point of progress for hardware four either. So yeah, I think the next two years are very exciting in terms of just what Tesla is able to do with autonomy.
I think the last year has been very exciting with what Tesla's been able to do with autonomy. I think that's the reason the stock is still around a trillion dollar market cap is because we have seen that progress, even though, you know, it's been slow, it's been many years coming, it is happening and it is going to continue happening and probably in hindsight, we'll seem like it happened pretty quickly here. That's sort of my expectation over the next 12 to 18 months. So from that perspective, which again, I think that's like, you know, Tesla shareholder perspective, maybe not traders, which back in influence the day-to-day movement a lot, but I think for long term Tesla investors, there's a lot to be looking forward to and a lot of real tangible progress being made on those really important parts of the future of the business.
But yeah, there might be a rough Q4 when that EV tech started goes away and hopefully that'll be stemmed a little bit by the launch of this more affordable model, which it sounds like Elon said looks like the Model Y, which is probably a good thing to just sort of like loosely let out there so people can align their expectations accordingly. I don't know, maybe that's part of the reaction here, but be a little bit surprised by that. But hopefully that is, and I think the timing of that will be well, well timed with the EV tech started going away. Hopefully that can sort of fill that gap, but it's going to put ASP pressure on, especially if it is something that is pretty similar to the Model Y. That's going to put pressure on actual Model Y sales, probably pretty significantly. So let's see.
FSD being a huge selling point. These comments, I don't know that I fully agreed with or understood. Yes, I do think FSD is a huge selling point. It would be difficult for me to buy a non-Test of the ECO because I would miss FSD extremely significantly. So for me, yes, it's a huge selling point, but also at the same time, like the take rate is low. So people are obviously buying Teslas for many other reasons. And I think there's tons of good reasons there as well. So they're acknowledging that it's a huge selling point. They're acknowledging that not a lot of people fully understand it. It's like, man, let's just put these things together, right? And maybe do some advertising. I know Teslas, like hydrophobic to advertising, replace hydro with whatever advertising would be in that vernacular, but it just seems like a pretty obvious solution at least to try. At least to try.
What's the O Super Bowl add on showing FSD maybe? The risk is very low. It's like $5 million or something like that. I don't know. It's inconsequential to the scale of Teslas business to try advertising in a more significant way. And I wish that they would just sort of like get over that hump. I mean, Starlink advertises. So maybe not in the most traditional ways. And Teslas done like a little bit of it, but I would like to just see them try something more aggressive just to see what happens. I understand the hesitancy. It's sort of a slippery slope to hop on, but this seems like a perfect situation where hey, there's low awareness and we have resources to be able to raise that awareness. Maybe we couple those things. All right.
So anyway, I've talked about that many times. It's, that's fine. All right. I feel like I'm going to have to track on the notes here, but let's see. Yeah. So well and excessive what competitors are doing in terms of the service area, hopefully, in a week or so. I think Ashok said a couple of weeks. So, you know, sometime this quarter, we should see another expansion again from Tesla. I hope that will continue to, I wish someone would ask about the safety rider specifically. The problem is that people ask like five questions. Whenever you ask multiple questions, Tesla doesn't answer them all. Like they're they're going to pick one either the one that they want to answer, the one that they mind answering the least, or just the last one in the sequence. That's what's going to get answered.
So people really just need to learn to ask one very specific question that they want the answer to. Like, can you tell us when the safety ride, like when the safety rider is going to be removed? Just do that and then ask your follow up. I wish that that would have been the case, but I don't think that we have that answer yet. Tesla may not have that answer yet either. So it's a little bit tongue in cheek, but I'm sure that they want to remove it as soon as they can. But it's more of a, like does does that actual decision really unlock anything for Tesla? Not really. It's more of a sign, an external sign that Tesla has achieved certain milestones. So it, you know, it'll happen when it happens. And I don't know that Tesla knows exactly when that will be at this moment.
Good to see that they are having discussions. It sounds like with the Bay Area, Nevada, with Florida, with Arizona, sounds like other places as well. And I think Elon said that they expect to be able to then launch robots Axi before the end of the year, which is, you know, we're like five or six months now. That's not a lot of time to be potentially launching in whatever, maybe five or six different jurisdictions. So I think that's also extremely exciting going back to just like things that are positive from from the earnings call. I definitely count that in there. I think this is actually more optimistic than what we heard earlier this year, which is a pretty notable change. I think Tesla was originally indicating really just kind of Austin and Bay Area. And then like maybe some other locations, it sounds like now we're getting more specifics in terms of those.
And seemingly some more optimism about about the timeline, which is both of those things are very encouraging as you get closer to that actual timeline coming to to be current. So yeah, I think that's exciting. Probably half the US population by the end of the year. Like that's not, I don't think that's the expectation. I don't think really anyone even, I mean, the most bullish people probably expect like a hundred percent worldwide coverage by the end of the year. But in terms of just like the spectrum of participants, I don't think there's there's many people that I don't. Tesla sets lofty goals. So this will probably happen later than what they are targeting. But even then I don't think that people quite appreciate or realize or recognize that sort of scale.
And when Tesla is really targeting to be able to do that, I think it's easy to look at Austin and right now, just kind of write it off of like, yeah, there's a safety rider. There's limited like the public can't access it. There's a smaller, you know, small service area relative to half the world's half the US population. It's easy to diminish right now. But the ability to diminish it will be lost extremely quickly. If Tesla scales anywhere close to what they are targeting to what they expect, the ability to criticize it very, very, very quickly goes away. So that's we're sort of right on the precipice of that of whether that will happen or whether, you know, the doubters will will be right.
I think Elon sort of tends to live a little bit in the future. He's saying that the doubters just like have egg on their face. I don't think they feel that way necessarily yet. But I think if Tesla does what they are saying they're going to do here, then it's almost in arguable that that is sort of the outcome that we will be in shortly. And I think that's where Elon is sort of like already at, which again goes back to like his comments. Tesla sort of already, Tesla sort of always three to six months ahead, just because they can see what's actually going on. They can see the data.
They can see the simulations of the future versions of the software. And they've got that insight. Whereas we're just looking at like, you know, oh, it's it's in Austin. We're looking at like three to six month old software. That's that's probably what's actually in production, even in Austin right now. So I'm just trying to remind people to be mindful of that. And again, I think that's why to me, like this call, I think felt pretty positive is because I think Tesla is feeling very positive about where those developments are at.
Yeah, model-wide stuff. FSD Europe, I really hope figures that out. West driver monitoring would be very nice. It is. I feel like they improved it. And then it just, I don't know if they got in trouble or whatever, but it seems to be back to being harsh again. Just looking through the notes. Tesla diner. 10 times the perimeter counts. We talked about that. Energy, a lot of bullish commentary there. It was nice to hear some of their, put that some of that in context with the one big beautiful bill and tariffs and things like that.
I think they're expecting an impact, but it sounds like maybe a little bit smaller than what people might have been fearing. I think that's good. A lot of discussion on Optimus. So I'll look forward to seeing that version three. Obviously, we've seen the version three hands or maybe version like 2.5. We'll see if the version three ones are another iteration, but definitely looking forward to that. I like how you want to put this in context in terms of just like the differences in AI. It's AI's, I don't know if it's like a catch all right now, but it's a broad industry. There's a lot of elements to it.
And I think it's difficult to find an argument against what you want to say here about Tesla being the leader in intelligence density, which is incredibly important when it comes to real world AI. You can't take Colossus, you know, XAI's massive training data center. You can't take that and move it around. So it's just a very different problem. And obviously they work together in many ways, but there are certainly differences here too. Optimus production stuff. Q2 was an interesting quarter. So these are kind of CFO comments.
So I'm going to like a 25% increase in FSD take rate since version 12. I don't know if that's probably a little bit lower than I would have expected just because it has gotten so much better. But I do think that they were right to point out that people are not aware of how much better it is, whether within the Tesla customer set or certainly outside of the Tesla customer set. I think that awareness is low. So I think that's why the take rate. Well, it is nice to see that up up tick for sure.
And I also think they're talking about percent on percent here. So it's like if it's 4% and it goes to 5%, that's like a 25% increase. I don't know. That's that's my understanding of how they're talking about it. I'd probably have to go back and listen, but I don't think it's going from like 10% to 35%, which would also be a 25% increase, but it's just how you're talking about how you're framing it. So I wish they would have been a little bit more clear on that, but my interpretation was more the former, the smaller increase.
Auto revenue, we talked a little bit about that earlier today. It sounded like it was mainly just ASP driven, sorry, ASP was driven by mix, mostly with new model Y. Cost of tariffs, I didn't quite fully catch. Sometimes it's a little bit difficult to hear exactly what they're saying. I do my best, but I didn't quite catch the cost of the tariffs. Stuff there, something around 300 million was mentioned. Sounded like that's going to affect future quarters, possibly affected this quarter as well. But my need to go back to listen to that.
We may get it probably not on the tariffs in the 10Q, but 10Q also usually gives some context on how the numbers have been affected at least. Good points on energy from Elon. I think things that people here probably understand, just the energy demand is kind of insatiable and how batteries can very quickly help with that. I think the quickness part is important if you fault anything with XAI, like you understand how much of a challenge power is and energy is and batteries are something that can aid with those challenges and be put into production, I guess, or become part of a project very quickly.
R&D continued to grow. CapEx 9 billion this year. All things I'm in support of. I think there's a lot of exciting things for Tesla to be investing in that I think that they are investing in. Yeah, so here's that 10X comments. We'll probably more than 10X the area, the service area at Austin. Next will be Bay Area. Sounded like they'll launch the Robotaxi system with the driver first in the Bay Area, which I think that's what Waymo did too. People laughed at like, oh, Tesla's just following the exact same thing as Waymo.
First of all, no, just because there are some similarities, it's not exactly the same. But secondly, even if they were following the exact same process, they're doing it with hardware that is very different. So even that criticism is sort of a faulty criticism. It's like, oh, you're doing the exact same thing five times cheaper, that's lame. But obviously that's extremely impressive. So that criticism always kind of cracks me up. Timeline for FSD unsupervised. It's just like not what they're working on. I mean, it is, but it's obviously the focus has been Robotaxi in Austin.
As that gets working to a degree that Tesla's happy with expanding, then they can start expanding that focus to customer vehicles and things like that. More Optimus stuff. I think things that Elon has talked about before. Nothing too crazy new there. Shareholder meeting stuff. We'll see Optimus at the Shareholder meeting. Tesla will talk about the progress there. Sounds like Elon's confident that there will be some sort of compensation vote or something at that meeting.
Elon may have that master plan that he talked about, which obviously will include Optimus. I would expect that either before the meeting or at the meeting. So I think that would be what master plan five maybe four. So we'll look forward to that. Fundamental transition of the company. Dojo two and dojo three. Talkie. Sorry, I just got an alert. AI six with the sort of next chip from AI five that continued continued iteration.
Elon sees that converging with dojo two. I know Tesla is already used hardware four either in simulation or inference. Maybe in training I would have to look back on that. But obviously if they're using AI four chips or hardware four chips that go in vehicles on sort of like the server level or the remote level, they're realizing the value of those chips extends beyond just being specifically in the vehicle. So it's something that Elon talked a little bit about before.
Like can you leverage those the compute capacity that is just going to be sitting idle in these vehicles and probably the more convergence that there is between these designs the better you could leverage that. So I don't know. It's just it's sort of a fascinating little intersection that Elon is particularly well suited to navigate because of his experience both with Tesla, which is already covering a broad swath of AI, but then also obviously the history with open AI.
And now of course with the X AI, Elon pretty uniquely positioned for making decisions like that. And how to best dial in those levers to optimize in those in those areas. So I'm looking forward to hearing more about that. I think I think Adam Jonas asked about the AI day. That I mean that's a good question in that context of we're probably not quite there yet for them to be able to talk about that stuff. But it is something that we'd love to hear more from Tesla about. Because it's a really exciting time in in terms of development in those areas.
当然,如今随着X AI的发展,埃隆·马斯克在做出此类决策方面有着独特的优势。如何最好地调整这些杠杆,以在这些领域实现优化,这是很值得期待的。我期待听到更多相关的信息。我认为亚当·乔纳斯问到了关于 AI 日的话题。在这个背景下,这是个好问题,因为特斯拉可能还没有完全准备好去谈论这些内容。但我们非常希望从特斯拉那里听到更多,因为在这些领域的发展方面,现在是一个非常令人兴奋的时期。
All right. Energy stuff. We know about the LFP. We know about the third megafactory. 30 cents per mile guessing for cyber cab Tesla. I think it's talked about that before. Maybe 50 cents per mile for other vehicles. So compensation stuff, optimist stuff. Confident AFI 5 triple BF profound profound game changer. I think that's most of it. Yeah, I think we've touched on most of it. So yeah, I guess just taking kind of a more high level view on today. I think it was sort of like excitingly unexciting.
Like I don't think that there were, I don't think that there were many things here that were surprising in a negative way. And I think the positives that we heard are thesis reinforcing. And what I mean by that is that at least my reason for holding Tesla is that autonomous robotics future first through EVs. And then obviously more recently with humanoid robots. And within that framework or within that thesis, I think Tesla is executing.
And I think that they're giving a lot of reasons to be optimistic. I think that they're optimistic in a way that is more than just like putting on errors or trying to be optimistic for the sake of optimism. I think that they really are. And I think that they have good reason to be. So that was sort of what I was looking for coming in here of just, you know, is robots actually on track? Is it going to continue to expand? Yes, yes. Sounds like that's going to happen as soon as the next couple of weeks with potentially a much larger service area.
I don't think Waymo is then going to be able to one up that, you know, the following week after that. And this little battle that we've got going on with Waymo and with Tesla and scale. Obviously Tesla is taking the later start here in terms of scale, but the real question is what's the rate of progress from there? Elon has said hyper exponential. Obviously, Elon has been wrong on timing before in these subjects. But if that happens, I think it doesn't take much of that happening for people to very quickly realize that this is like kind of game over situation.
So we may not be far away from a realization like that. Maybe we are. It really just depends how things continue. But that's sort of what I'm watching for at the moment. And I think everything that they said was either in line or above my expectations in terms of how that progresses from here. So excitingly on exciting. And we'll see. We'll see how things go.
Like if we don't get another expansion in two weeks and we don't get another expansion in four weeks, then it starts to look disappointing. But if those things happen, then I think the reason for excitement remains and and we'll see. And then just in terms of like more than negative stuff, it's, I don't know, none of that stuff is was either unexpected, not to say that it like doesn't matter. But certainly, I don't I don't think that there was anything in here that was like an unexpected negative.
Like we know about tariffs. We know about the one big beautiful bill. We know about these things. Obviously, there's going to be an impact. Tesla's going to have to work through those impacts. And that's going to maybe put some pressure on the business at certain times. But like the EV credit going away isn't very relevant for Tesla's future of being an autonomous, you know, rideshare provider.
Like it's just those aren't even related at all. So it's maybe not unimportant isn't the right word, but it's not the most important thing. All right, just going to take a quick look. Any questions in here? I do see I did see a couple of super jets in here. So I wanted to thank you Greg. That was a massive one. I appreciate that. It means a lot that, you know, you guys find this helpful, find my commentary.
Something worth listening to. Even if it's not the smoothest presentation all the time, but I do really appreciate it. It does mean a lot. ESR, thank you for that. So a question here. Let's see. So does a sea does having a CEO that knowingly helped elect people involved with Epstein help or hurt the stock? I'm not sure curious about your analysis. So I assume this is tongue in cheek. You probably didn't expect me to take this take this question. But hey, I'll talk about it.
So I think I mean, there was literally a report today that this is very political and probably not something I should wait into. But there was a report today that I think that the DOJ said that they informed Trump in May that was part of the Epstein files. And I think that was around the time where Elon said this. So the framing of your question wouldn't actually match with that report. Now people are going to believe all sorts of different things on this, depending on your political lens. That's fine. I'm not really here to comment on that. So everyone's free to make their own opinions like no one has to be a Tesla shareholder. It's done well historically. So if you don't want to be a Tesla shareholder, you certainly don't have to be.
Francis, thank you. I appreciate that. Good to see you on here. Greg, I know I thank you. And then there was one other one trying to like pull up the name here. I'm not sure. 40 watt. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. Okay. Why don't really want to end it on that note? Let's hopefully we can find another question here. Next question I saw was why does the audio suck? I'm sorry if it did. I try to make sure that that doesn't happen, but hopefully it was okay.
I'm not your audio's Tesla's. Yeah, I wish they would make some better audio here for the earnings calls. It's like I thought you guys are a technology company. It's almost like nostalgic now to have terrible audio on earnings calls. Please go back and share your thoughts on hardware 3 FSD comments. I assume that's in reference to like what the upgrade path for hardware 3 is. Yeah, it's a tricky tricky topic right because so far hardware 3 probably hasn't delivered on what the expectations that Tesla set at least in 2017.
I think overtime Tesla walked back on what some of those expectations should be. So there's a spectrum of expectations around that hardware for people. And I experienced that. I was a hardware 3 owner for a long time right for like four years. I did the FSD transfer to a new vehicle. Obviously there's additional expense with that, but it you know I never I didn't ever feel like it wasn't necessarily fair. My expectation going in was that this was something that would be being developed for a long time that no one can overshare if it's going to work or not.
So maybe my expectations were like a little bit lower than the expectations that Tesla publicly set. So I recognize that I empathize with that. I do think that overtime Tesla has done a lot to try to make hardware 3 work. I think that they're going to do what they can to make those customers eventually happy, but like a car has a finite life right. You can't just wait 20 years and be like, oh we're going to upgrade your car. Oh you don't have your car anymore. Like yes, that solves the problem, but it's not like the best customer experience obviously.
So I do think that Tesla cares about it. I do think that they'll do what they can to make it right. But I also think that they need to. They absolutely have to make sure that they can get unsupervised FSD working like that above anything else, even above making those customers like happy or feel whole or whatever that needs to happen. Partially even just because it's like life-saving technology right. Like you're if you're sitting there making that decision of like, oh should we spend our time like upgrading people, spend our resources upgrading people to this hardware that isn't quite there yet.
Or should we make sure that this hardware actually gets there crosses the finish line, start saving lives. Like it's a pretty clear choice of pick the one that's going to save more lives. And that's just even setting aside the economics, which that's an even more clear picture of like, yeah, you've got to solve FSD first. So it's completely rational. It's the decision that makes sense. It's the right decision. But recognizing that that decision causes frustration for a big portion of the customer set, which happens to be a very supportive group that was like early adopters and got Tesla to where they're at today.
So it's a tricky problem. But I think that Tesla's answer is the correct one, even if it that is, you know, frustrating. So it is good that I think, you know, I think it's something that absolutely should be happening. That FSD transfer is something that's being allowed, especially in markets where FSD hasn't really been available. Like that's kind of a no brainer that that should be the case.
So I'm glad Tesla's offering that. I'm glad they're expanding the offering of that. And I think that over time, Tesla will do what they can to, you know, make it right with those customers. That's going to result in some people that had a bad experience. And that's it's unfortunate. I'm sure that's never been Tesla's intent and not their desired outcome. But you know, sometimes that is what happens when you're working on really difficult problems.
And I'm not sure that there's a way around that other than just managing it better upfront, which, you know, certainly a fair criticism, I suppose. But are you going to hate the company forever because of that? I mean, I'm not just my personal point of view on that. So again, I think that Tesla cares about them, about those customers, and we'll do what they can to give us good over resolution as possible on that situation.
And hardware three, like hardware three is it's gotten better. It is still very good. It's like that if hardware four Tesla didn't exist, that would be the best sort of driver assistance technology that you could buy in any car like hardware three, which what that's eight years old now. And it would still be the best. So I think that's worth just keeping in mind. It could sound like hardware three just sucks and is worse than everything else out there on the road. It's better way way better than anything else out there on the road, except for Tesla's other product. So that's very important context, I think.
All right. Well, I suppose that's not my favorite place to wrap it up either, but as good of any, again, I think just overall today, like probably pretty uneventful in terms of an earnings day. I don't think that we got anything like any major groundbreaking announcements or anything like that. That wasn't what I was expecting. I doubt many people were expecting that.
The biggest thing to keep an eye on now is just what happens in Austin, what happens elsewhere with the robots actually roll out. And I think by the time that we talk again, which will be at the latest next quarter, we're going to see some pretty dramatic progress. So that'll be the next checkpoint if nothing sooner and looking forward to continuing the discussion then. All right. Thanks everybody.