The quarterly results for Tesla were abysmal. It was a bad quarter for the company and the usual suspects are glee.
In this video I discuss why this shows how the financial media and Wall Street analysts dont matter and are driven either by an agenda or ignorance.
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One thing I don't understand is that if you look at the numbers over the years, Tesla has made 144,000 more vehicles than they've sold. Have you heard about this? Are those vehicles on ships or in yards or something?
I havent looked at the numbers but it sounds about right. You have to keep in mind that for Tesla, with no dealership network, all cars are either in their inventory or sold. They cannot "sell" the cars to dealers and have them sitting on lots (basically an inventory transfer).
As for the gist of the question, 45K or 50K of that came from this quarter. This is why the inventory on hand jumped. If we divide 1.8 million by 365 we get about 5K cars per day. The inventory this quarter jumped from 16 days to 30, that is why I think your numbers sound correct.
Where are those vehicles? Many of them are in transit with some sitting in the Tesla owned showrooms. This quarter was odd with a supply chain disruption (Red Sea) in the middle of the quarter.
We will see how this unfolds after next quarter, if things even out. When supply chains are disrupted, and then resume, with only a few weeks left, a lot of time the inventory simply isnt in the right place.
For example, we have the China numbers for March for Tesla, 90K. But we have no idea, as of yet, how many were sold in China verses exported. Whatever is exported is still in inventory since a car is not sold under these circumstances until the owner takes delivery.
Oh that makes sense... I've never thought of the cars transferred to dealerships basically being counted as sold by the manufacturer. It makes sense, but I've just never thought of it that way.
Be very interesting to see the numbers for next quarter. I have no idea how anyone outside of Tesla could even estimate the numbers given the disruptions and increased competition, etc.
Production is a bit more accurate. There are some who monitor the factories closely.
Deliveries, people are just making it up. There is no way to know. Some claim to be watching VIN registrations but they differ from country-to-counter in terms of how they register them and the time lag of when they appear.
So delivery estimates, to me, are just massive guesses.
Even though the car industry as a whole are encountering difficulties, I've seen some articles that like to highlight Tesla's problems. Some even compared their sales to BYD, how BYD's quarter was higher than last year's, while Tesla is lower. There are a lot of data available, so they can pick and choose what they want to support their agenda.
Yep. If you remember, in the 4th quarter, the talking points where how BYD has passed Tesla as the largest EV manufacturer in world...based upon one quarter.
Now that is off the table and the year over year is what is used since it fits the narrative.
Tesla has a bad quarter, no doubt. But it was far from the only one. Plus, Tesla had the 4th highest month of production in China, negating an article claiming Tesla was slowing down its China output.