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🚀 Is Tesla heading towards monopoly?
Plus: Mercedes slows down, Nio testing bots, humble leaders at Tesla and more
Hey S3XY 🧤, Tesla’s vertical integration, vehicle lineup, outrageously capable CEO, the best balance sheet among peers, drive for innovation, peak efficiency, and biggest of all; its AI play in terms of robotics and autonomous driving can get it to become monopoly? Only time will tell.
And some other highlights from today’s letter 📨:
FSD’s newer version continue to amaze people.
Sentry mode upgrade on the way.
Elon’s advice to Rivian.
VinFast posted real bad results.
Let’s take a dive..👇🏻

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TESLA BULLETS
In Texas we believe: Tesla deepening its presence in suburbs Kyle and Hutto of Austin to expand its battery vertical.
Encouraging: Yesterday was “Introduce a Girl to Engineering” day for Tesla. They welcomed over 700 middle school students across 25 Tesla sites.
Recall: Tesla to update 8700 cars in China over reverse camera image dysfunction.
Autonomy: Look how smoothly FSD avoids standing water. Don’t you dare sleep on FSD and start including it into your valuation model if you haven’t done that already.
Autonomy²: FSD bull again, it’s better and significantly faster at making judgemental choices.
Price hike: Tesla increased price of model 3 long range in the USA by $250.
Efficiency: Sentry mode power consumption to get better by Q2 says Drew Baglino, SVP - Powertrain & Energy Engineering.
Growing: Tesla is expanding it’s team in Malaysia. Most of the jobs are located in Cyberjaya.
Leaders at work: So many leaders at Tesla directly engaging with public, taking a feedback and improvising in many aspects. That culture of humbleness along with innovation and financial discipline will take Tesla to the moon.

WHISPERS
Lars Moravy, VP - Vehicle Engineering at Tesla has some word about adaptive lights.
Tesla has been researching ways to deploy adaptive light functionality to eligible vehicles in the United States while complying with NHTSA guidelines.
Progress continues, and this may be the region's first official acknowledgment of this.
(Thank you as always, @larsmoravy.)
— Teslascope (@teslascope)
6:14 AM • Feb 23, 2024
Bradley Thomas Gerstner; founder, chairman and CEO of Altimeter Capital seems quite amazed by Tesla’s Full Self Driving capabilities.
Brad Gerstner (@altcap) says he just tried Tesla's FSD Beta 12: "It was mind-boggling; I think this is going to be a bit of a ChatGPT moment for Full Self-Driving"
Full podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=-i9AGk…
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
2:52 AM • Feb 23, 2024
Listen up all the leaders at Rivian, if you want to save your sinking ship; consider taking advice of this wise man.
They need to cut costs massively and the exec team needs to live in the factory or they will die
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
6:04 PM • Feb 22, 2024
Growing Tesla Megapack orderbook.
NEWS: Arevon Energy is going to build a $1 billion solar and battery energy storage project in California.
@Tesla will provide a $150 million 200MW Megapack 2 XL battery system for seamless power continuity.
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
2:05 AM • Feb 23, 2024
Is Tesla really inching towards monopoly?
Very long post though, if you are running short on time, summary here.
Tesla’s Monopoly Inches Closer.
New industry data is showing that Tesla is trending towards a Monopoly. As an example, Ford is losing $1.6B per quarter on EVs, and Lucid and Rivian, both of which are EV-only start ups, are close to running out of cash and have effectively… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Farzad (@farzyness)
10:49 PM • Feb 22, 2024

INDUSTRY FILES
Another money loser: Vietnamese EV startup VinFast reported results today for Q4 and it’s sort of same story as we saw yesterday with Rivian & Lucid.
Bots are coming: Nio already testing humanoid robots by UBTech at it’s manufacturing facility in China.
Moving backward: Mercedes delays plans for going fully electric by 2030, to focus on combustion engines.
Report: The International Council on Clean Transportation releases a report on battery supply chain and its impact on cost of EVs. Read full report here.
Sharing: Rivian follows Tesla’s footsteps, to open up its charging network for other EVs.
Dilution: Volvo Cars proposes to distribute 62.7 percent of its Polestar stake to its shareholders.
Offers: Hyundai cuts IONIQ 5 price with rare 0% finance offer.

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BEFORE YOU GO
🕵🏻♂️ This day in history: Michael Dell of Dell Technologies (2023 revenues were little more than Tesla) was born in year 1965. Here is his old photo from 4th grade, bet you wouldn’t be able to recognise him.
🧹 Haha: Snoop Dogg got this new job.
😴 Sleep: Need some inspiration to fix bedtime routine? This article might help.
❄️ Another world: Have you ever been inside a cave? Have you ever been inside an ice cave??
🤔 That’s thoughtful: I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds ~ Mike Tyson, his best knockouts here.

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