Tesla Model Y Unveil

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hahaha great outfit Hey [Applause] yes right yeah well everyone welcome to the the Tesla design studio where we've helped many part-2 underlings before I hope you guys will have a really great time tonight I think I've never seen so many cameras in my entire life this is everywhere so we're gonna start off by just talking a bit about how did we get here you know one of the things that have led to this day what are the cars like how did Tesla start out how did we you know where were we 10 11 years ago what has happened over that intervening time you know cuz it occurred to me that a lot of people they only heard about Tesla maybe a year or two ago and you know electric cars are kind of like taken for granted but there was a time when electric cars seemed very stupid and it wasn't that long ago and the the idea of creating a car company was stupid of course and then making an electric car company was like stupidity squared and so let's let's take a look at the first car we ever made that there Tesla Roadster [Applause] [Music] all right it's a bit small it's great it's great so it's a crazy thing is if you go back 11 years today Tesla had made one car that car that's serial number one of Tesla so that's my car actually so so on February 2008 we'd literally only made one car that car and didn't really work very well I have to say that it broke down line and it took us another three months just to make the second car and now we've made about five hundred and fifty thousand two cars and after the the Roadster well essentially what happened with the grosser is where I said okay we want to make a car we want to really break the mold about how do people think about electric cars to think about electric cars being slow and ugly and and poor performance so we want to have a sports car a car that is fast looks good sexy that's right ha ha ha ha you took the words out of my mouth so exactly sexier so the roaster we weren't the reason we didn't sports cars we wanted to create a car that would break the mold for electric vehicles and that that would be yeah sexy and and fast and long-range and that's that's why we did the Roadster and if people appeal so that well you won't be able to make there you won't be able to make a car with those specifications and if you do nobody'll buy it so we have to prove those two things wrong and then after you at the Roadster they said okay sure you can make some toy a sports car but you can't make a a sedan you can't there's no way you could compete with the the the luxury sedans of there are gasoline because they're the best and you know where you can make an electric car that's like that so we did Model S [Applause] exactly so noisy we're all the fumes where's the exhaust pipe where do you put the gasoline yeah so we actually started designing that car in the rocket Factory so we didn't have us at a design studio we took a little corner of the rocket Factory and and and Franz joined and we just with a tiny crew in a corner of the rocket factory we designed that car and I think this that that car is really important because it was competing against the best of the gasoline cars so if you pee negates if you can make an electric car that can that can beat the best the gasoline cars that's just a it's a very powerful statement to prove that that you can go electric so then working on the from the Model S which by the way in terms of where the name comes from actually I like calling things what they are so roses cold roadster because it's a roadster there is no there is no good word for sedan so we can call the sedan doing work or saloon there's just like literally no word so the Model S stands for sedan and out of touch always I actually didn't realize at the time that Model S also means models and and I mean I had like a one part of a license plate that said bottle s2 because it was like the second production model s it was like then I and as those walk away from my car so wow what a jerk he's license plate says models - yeah like okay but not had that license plate so but then going from from the Model S we say okay we want to make the best SUV in the world we want to do something Rick Kantor carried away actually with with the Model X we was like let's have we practically every every technology and whiz-bang thing we could possibly think of and the Model X is like as a car it's like a Faberge egg meets a spaceship it's like it was insanely difficult but if it it is it is an amazing vehicle let's bring it out [Music] [Applause] yeah you can see a certain position forming maybe so the model acts like yeah like said it really feels like a Faberge egg spaceship and it's it's x4 crossover SUV but then after we have the Model S and Model X I thought it'd be pretty funny if if we had the model II and then and then but then like Ford threatened to sue us [Laughter] Ford killed sex but I said what if we called the model 3 because that's completely different for me they said that's fine so if the model 3 let's bring up model 3 [Applause] that's right exactly expect a smart summon with a person so we made the original road step the model ass the model axe the model 3 and then we also then made the new generation roadster which will bring in sweet hey hey sure [Music] [Applause] so yeah we kept the original roadster the new roadster yeah and then and then the the semi [Music] [Applause] the actually the Tisza semi drove here non-stop all the way from the Bay Area so that Tesla semi a 500-mile range electric semi learn to actually only after naming the thing that so semi heck it has to work two meanings this is semi sexy so yes we're really excited about bringing those products to market and so that's sort of talking about our products but then the the factories are as much are as much the part if not more than than the the vehicles themselves in fact III really think like the the difficulty and value of manufacturing is underappreciated it's insanely difficult of Li easy to make a prototype and extremely difficult to mass manufacture that prototype o to match manufacturer vehicle reliably and at scale but even for Rockets I'd say it's probably a factor of 10 harder to design the manufacturing system for a rocket then design the rocket and for cars I'd say it's it's maybe a hundred times harder to design the manufacturing system than to design the vehicle itself so but that's what the free money we I don't mean to have it in black and white it's like it's not so long ago they didn't even have color cameras back then in 2010 but it was very bleak it's like essentially the the you know when we acquired the the the Fremont factory which used to be called new me people sort of thought oh you got a car factory now if you have a car that they sort of think if you have a car factory you just make any any car it's like you know that's like saying you've got a box that box can have anything you want in it no only if you make the thing in the box so although we did get but we had a get a very good deal on the the new me factory Toyota in General Motors actually took all of the good equipment out and anything that had what that was like so useless it wasn't even worth the scrap was left that said it literally looked like that but in color and and it took in a enormous amount of effort by a very talented team to actually turn they essentially what looked like a derelict warehouse into a working co-working car factory yeah so in fact like today the the Fremont factory which is an enormous building I think it's like the second or third biggest building in the world back footprint is so dense so densely packed with with people and robots by those pictures like robots but there's 20,000 people that work in the in the Fremont factory across four or five shifts so it's really a massive amount of people and robots so it's like this giant cybernetic collective so that that wasn't that was way harder than making the car by far and I'm it's worth noting like the the last times at least in the u.s. last time any car company achieved mass manufacturing was about a hundred years ago that is the last time it and then Tesla it's literally that crazy [Applause] like like the issue is definitely not coming up with a car design it is absolutely all about bullying the production system that you want to have a good product to build but that's that's basically the easy part then the factories the hard part then the challenge is like okay if we if we create a car factory where they have got the batteries and and electric motors and power electronics going to come from and and that's where we need to set okay we're better build something that's capable of 50 gigawatt hours at least of cell output which at the time when we proposed the gigafactory I believe like total global output for of silica of lithium-ion batteries for all purposes phones laptops saline you know cars anything it was about 30 gigawatt hours so we're like okay well just do the basic math we need something that's we need 50 gigawatt hours so we better have a real big factory or there's no way so and we were gonna build it in California but like they were to take interiors just to get the permits so we built the gigafactory in amount of time it would have taken to get the permits in California that that's what the gigafactory looked like that in 2010 it was basically rocks and bushes okay and now this is what it looks like now [Applause] yeah so and it's only about a third complete so the this weren't complete I think it's about four or five times the size of the Pentagon so it's kind of difficult to appreciate scale but that that they although it it's really quite tall it's like seventy feet tall so the volume of it is just mind-blowing it takes two hours just to walk around it so you know again it's a tremendously talented team working like crazy like tens of thousands of people to produce this this this Factory and today it it produces more lithium-ion than the rest of the world combined that now that we're also building a factory and in China which I'm really excited about as you can see it's it's very impressive very impressive a large puddle so that when when I was there in January that's that's what it looked like when we did the groundbreaking ceremony and this is what it looks like now three months later but this is what it will look like at the end of the year so I think things are things are moving fast and the this will actually be once it's complete the equivalent of a Fremont car Factory plus our Nevada battery Giga factory combined yeah so integrating the two which kind of makes sense so yeah so really excited about this a great great great team in China and this gonna be really important for making affordable versions of the model 3 and my wife for the for the greater China market and then besides cause we have some other so the solar roof and power wall so this is this is definitely gonna be the year of the solar roof and power wall the because of like extreme challenges with the model 3 production we have to basically allocate all resources to model 3 production because otherwise we're gonna die and and so so basically it was pretty tight I have to say yeah that was a hard one I obviously like 2018 is probably felt like aging five years and one honestly it was really intense so I think thank you for supporting Tesla through this difficult period thank you [Applause] but it now that not at model 3 production is going pretty well we're finally allocated engineering attention to the solar roof as well as the solar retrofit I'm pretty excited about both the solar tile roof and the soul retrofit and power wall like if part of the reason we can also connect parallels we couldn't make enough cells so it allocate cells to the car or to the power1 was like we're going to make the cars so then power will get cell star basically but 2019 so we are now going to ramp it up and then power pack so power pack is can like our industrial strength battery storage system and we did the the biggest battery storage system in the world in Australia and yeah I was really super cool and then we're doing one that's a roughly a gigawatt hour scale in California so just in Southern California right nearby we're building a gigawatt hour scale of power pack and so expect this to ultimately be really critical for transition the world to sustainable energy obviously I had to have sustainable energy production and sustainable energy consumption so the state sustainable energy production needs the solar panels plus the battery because the Sun doesn't shine at night and then those electric cars no electric vehicles in general yeah so but I mean the really exciting thing is if you have with with solo bass solos with solo plus battery plus electric vehicles we have a fully sustainable future this is a future you can feel really excited and optimistic about I think it really matters and then super charging so you know the first in 2010 we had zero super charges so there was no you couldn't really drive long distances with an electric car in in 2010 so it was like okay we better we have some high some high power charges otherwise it can be extremely inconvenient to drive long distances so built into the Model S that was a high voltage DC bypass directly to the pack so you can just sort of mainline power rating right into the pack and then we still get there nobody was building high power charges like okay we better build these high power charges because nobody's building them and so we went from zero superchargers to building a global network of superchargers yeah yeah so it's pretty nutty each one of those one of those is a super charging site so super charging team tells did an incredible job building a global network of super charges that allow you to travel to a massive section of the world basically anywhere in North America almost anywhere in Europe most places in China not the Gobi Desert yet but most places will cover the Gobi Desert we'll get there and subscribe I swear to god there it is I've specifically asked about the Saskatchewan supercharger I haven't told it is it is under construction so absolutely I've asked about it like twice it's I'm told it's gonna be completed soon and then you will actually be able to drive across Canada so yes because I stopped actually we have some great supporters in Kazakhstan you think we probably we should have we will build superchargers in Kazakhstan they you put it right here yeah we're gonna build a lot more superchargers and and we have actually a version 3 of the supercharger that we just unveiled and in fact yeah [Applause] the superchargers actually started out only at about 75 kilowatts and now they're at version 3 Oh 250 kilowatts we think probably can even go a little a little higher than that and so if you've got a long-range model 3 it's it's capable of charging at about a thousand miles an hour or 1,600 kilometres an hour yeah so and and we we have one working in the Bay Area and then the one here at the design studio is also working as of tonight so yeah so so we're rolling out the version 3 supercharger throughout the world just gradually upgrading the existing sites as well as adding new sites so we did we just slow down a the supercharger well out a little bit because we wanted them to be version 3 instead of version 2 but now that we have version 3 running and we'll we're going to spoil our production and so you're gonna have like a radical improvement in supercharging worldwide by sometime next year yeah so so in terms of where we are today we got obviously the s3x we've made I think 550 thousand vehicles something like that the 12 months from now we will have made about a million vehicles so so it's pretty wild to think that 11 years ago today we had made literally one car and a year from now we will have made a million yeah I mean that this is a this is a testament to the incredible talent and an effort of the people of Tesla to say thank you to people Tesla you guys are incredible [Applause] so yeah and four million tons of co2 saved in fact with the the four million ton I it just ticked over like an a like an hour ago so the formula just ticked over tonight yeah so you know just talking bit about like you know what were the what what are the thoughts back to back then what were some of the comments let's say the Internet is forever if this is a me like taste it was like like I said the electric cars were considered extremely impossible and stupid and in various forms the you know you're a fraud like okay you can drive that fraud okay and then now things have changed yeah the goal of Tesla was literally this is like to what degree in fact the you know when we created were like okay the fundamental historic good of Tesla what should be measured by the degree to which should we accelerate the advent of sustainable a sustainable energy and transport and our goal all along has been to try to get the rest of the car industry to to go electric we did a joint venture thing with with Toyota and with Mercedes we open sourced our patents three or four years ago made are freely available and so it's it's extremely rewarding to see that the the rest of the industry is going electric this is great right [Applause] and I was just wondering like if where will where wilt has to be in ten years you know Mars exactly we will be driving at Tesla on Mars I think we could I think we actually could okay Tesla will be on Mars in ten years I think well any well so after that so extended history or a history lesson what what about the actual the actual reason you came okay this a missing car it starts with a why answer the why and that's why in the middle they carry out the model why [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right the model y so like the three oh it will be extremely safe so that the you may know the mall three has the the lowest probability of injury of any car ever tested by the US government the model y we expect will have a similar result five stars never get every category with the battery pack alone low in the flow it's gonna have a very low center of gravity so this will it has the functionality of a of an SUV but will it will ride like a sports car so this thing will be really tight in corners and we expect it will be the safest midsize SUV in the world by far and it tells that we actually always designed with safety as the number one goal it's it's like like cable people think okay performance sure but but safety first this is actually by far the most important thing but it's also gonna be have incredible performance so expect to have as a three and a half second 0 to 60 yeah good and very low center of gravity so great great handling its testing out at a point two three drag coefficient which is extremely good for an SUV and in terms of range fair mom's know so we expect to have an EPA range of an actual true usable range of 300 miles so yeah [Music] from it for an interior standpoint it has a panoramic glass roof and by the way after I'm done here you guys will be able to come up and like check out the car so it's like so it's gonna have a panoramic glass roof I'd like really feels like just like the model 3 if you're in the car it just feels like you're you can see the sky seed seed 766 cubic feet obviously autopilot since you know all that and as I've said publicly we expect to be feature complete with what self-driving sometime later this year and then as as we prove out the safety with billions of miles and kilometres we will from our standpoint feel it's like safe enough to not pay attention and then get the regulatory approvals sometime thereafter but the cool thing is feature complete like it'll be able to do basically anything by this year just with soft just with software upgrades which is very cool the the basically long range one we expect to be about $47,000 and then sometime in 2021 we'll have the the sort of standard version which will be having thirty-nine thousand dollar price point so yeah [Applause] now the seventh seats are optional yeah doing the lift gate yes okay I mean you never know we might be better than this but it should be at least as good so so I think it's gonna be like really compelling I'm confident that it'll be the of any midsize SUV it'll be the one you want and yeah I think it will probably sell I think we'll probably do more model wise than SX and three combined most likely yeah so so there you have the sexy presentation so all right so thank you all for coming I thought those of you here and those who you're watching thank you very much for your support over the years it's been you know a hell of a ride and I love you too I love you too we are bringing sexy back quite literally all right thank you [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: Tesla, Model Y, crossover, SUV

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Length: 35min 55sec (2155 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 15 2019