Elon Musk Is Up To Something...

on today's episode how Elon will destroy Uber with their own founder Q2 delivery numbers shock Wall Street and Tesla reveals their full selfcleaning vehicle what if I told you that the same person who founded Uber will lead Tesla's robotaxi Network to World Domination put on your tinfoil hats this is a wild one if we are right on this then important pieces of the robotaxi puzzle will be coming together in front of your eyes the robotaxi unveiling event is getting closer 8th of August and knowing how Elon operates I assume there's a frenzy going on at Tesla to make everything happen at the last minute Elon likes to leave some breadcrumbs and the latest in his Trail is Elon following Travis kalenic on X this Monday yes this is the guy who founded Uber now why would Elon do that especially considering Travis hasn't posted anything since 2019 well Travis has a long history with self-driving cars and what we found is that he has been wanting to join forces with Elon on the robo taxi project more than once back in the day Travis was tied down to Uber but not anymore in 2015 Travis said to Steve Jetson then a board member of Tesla in 2020 if Teslas are autonomous I want to buy all of them all 500,000 of the estimated 2020 production I want them all well Teslas weren't autonomous in 20120 but that's a whole other story jiton said that Travis apparently couldn't get a return call from Elon so around this point is when he started developing his own self-driving cars with Uber in 2016 we saw Travis again explain why it is so important for Uber to bet on self-driving it starts with understanding that the world is going to go self-driving and autonomous so if that's happening what would happen if we weren't a part of that future if we weren't a part of the autonomy thing then the future passes Us by basically in a very expeditious and efficient way if we are not tied for first then the person who is in first or the entity that's in first then rolls out a ride sharing Network that is far cheaper or far higher quality than Uber's then Uber is no longer a thing in 2016 after seeing Apple invest $1 billion into a Chinese competitor called Diddy Travis says he called Elon Musk again with a proposal to team up I said look man we should partner Travis goes on to say Elon spent the rest of the call convincing me that it's too far out and it's not realistic that I should just stick to what we do best and be focused or I'm going to f it all up that's when I knew Tesla was competing by the end of 2017 Travis kalenic was ousted as the CEO of uber leading up to that departure he also sold his stock in the company we won't dig deeper into that in 2020 Uber's self-driving unit was sold off to Aurora Technologies now that we know the story do you think Travis might have just been ahead of his time with the robotaxi plans for Uber on Travis's side joining Tesla to build the Uber 2.0 on top of the Tesla robotaxi capabilities sounds like a dream or Vision rather come true on elon's side bringing in a Visionary who built Uber to what it is is and someone who could already see the big picture 7 years ago might be exactly what he needs this could ensure the success of the consumer side of Tesla robotaxi operations and also the success of the ride hailing Network which uses the existing Tesla Fleet whenever owners want to set their Teslas to work sounds like the perfect combo for the robo taxi wave now personally I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla has already hired kalenic as head of robotaxi network and will announce this on August 8th we've found three ways Travis and Elon have connected over the years one they sat together in then president Trump's advisory Council in 2017 which both later quit two just this April Elon hosted a dinner with David sax at Sax's house in Hollywood Hills with kalenic on the guest list three and this one goes way back but it could even be considered funny in today's circumstances Elon tweeted this out in 2013 about ordering a Tesla Model S on Uber together with Travis and irin this also gives us the only picture of the two together so does all this mean Uber is going down let's see what they think of it Uber and Tesla have partnered before as many Uber drivers are using Teslas to do so and the companies have offered incentives to make their vehicles more accessible for drivers Uber is also using Tesla API to show a range-based trip planner so the driver could schedule rides based on their battery charge we went through interviews of the current Uber CE Dar kasr Shahi from earnings calls and elsewhere and found what he thinks of autonomous vehicles first thing I would say is that we think that the AV technology at maturity is going to be very good for the industry it will be great for Uber but really what we bring is the systems that we put in place the pricing matching routing algorithms and payment systems in an interview with morning Brew he even went a bit further to talk about Tesla's Branded Network what we are building is the largest demand Network in the world and a dispatch layer that dynamically can decide hey for this ride we should dispatch a person for this other ride we may dispatch a robot and put it all together in a safe reliable predictive way I think we're going to be more than fine and I think there will be certain circumstances where users will want to use a priority Network you know Branded Network they may use Tesla but I think because we bring the most demand and because of all the systems that we built we can be a big player in the space so the current thinking at Uber at least what they want us to think they think is that they don't see a problem because they already have their massive demand audience and the ecosystem built out now if we Circle back to Travis He said already in 2016 that if Uber is not first or tied to the first then Uber will no longer be a thing a question we still have is why if Uber CEO Dar believes that Uber Will Survive the robotaxi wave and do so well why is he selling his Uber shares right now D sold 1 million shares on June 17th for $70 million in a pre-arranged plan adopted on February 16th this year leaving him with 1.2 million shares of common stock and 250,000 shares from derivative Securities this means he offloaded almost half of his whole position in the company so what do you think is going on there it certainly looks like Tesla has found their new head of Robo taxi op operations doesn't it Tesla posted its production and delivery numbers for the second quarter on Tuesday and we can see that the company delivered a total of 443,000 notice that production was 41,8 31 Vehicles here with Tesla clearing out the surplus of the first quarter production Tesla did retain their top spot as the world's largest ev maker as bid delivered 42639 fully electric cars in the second quarter the 443,000 anyone still holding a short Position will be obliterated even Gates here's a wild number for you Tesla has now delivered a total of 6,227 N20 electric vehicles since Model S production started in 2012 we were also waiting for growth in energy deployments and this is just wonderful Tesla deployed 9.4 gwatt hourss in the second quarter a record high the deployments were up 150 % compared to last year and up 132% from the first quarter Tesla's next earning call will be held on Tuesday July 23rd a new Tesla patent filing illustrates a system and a method for automatically sanitizing enclosed spaces particularly vehicle interiors that can be shared by multiple people it shows possible systems using the vehicle's HVAC system for hot air and also sanitizing light and steam the system described is able to detect temperature humidity presence of pathogens and other indicators it would be able to automatically execute the sanitation process when people are absent the patent even shows a process of automatically extending the seat belt for sanitation Tesla also demonstrates the autonomous driving system changing the vehicle orientation so it would increase the exposure to the sanitizing effect of sunlight and if there is severe contamination of the vehicle then external service robots will come to the rescue this would be awfully useful for a robo taxi or your Tesla vehicle that you've sent off to do ride hailing in the Tesla Network

Channel: The Tesla Space

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Length: 9min 37sec (577 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 03 2024