Hey everybody Rob Mauer here and today we are going to be going through Tesla's Q1 production and delivery report just released. Tesla has set new records for both production and deliveries, so let's get right into the numbers.
Tesla saying in the first quarter we produced 440,000 vehicles and delivered over 422,000 vehicles, we continued to transition towards a more even regional mix of vehicle builds, delivery model SNX vehicles and transit to EMEA and APAC.
So looking at the numbers here, we've got 19,437 model SNX vehicles produced 10,695 vehicles delivered, so definitely some slowdown in SNX deliveries as Tesla mentions that there's some transition in regional mix, so we'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. And then for Model 3 and Y, 421,371 vehicles produced, 412,180 delivered.
We can see Elisa counting, not too many changes there, I think SNX may be a little bit higher and then our totals there, almost 414,000 produced, almost 423,000 delivered. So as we had previously talked about, the consensus expectation for deliveries was 421,000 a little bit over that, so Tesla has beat that by 0.3%.
So a little bit above expectations from a consensus perspective, as we had talked about though, I do think that the true expectations, the whisper numbers, probably a little bit higher in terms of what actual expectations from analysts and investors were. And then for production, I think this is probably a little bit ahead, a little bit more ahead of expectations than what deliveries would have been.
Obviously, we went through my production forecast really close on that, so happy with that. My delivery expectation was, I think, 432,000, so a little bit softer on that, probably mostly from SNX being a little bit lower. But as we have seen, there's been inventory there, Tesla talking about transitioning in terms of the regional mix of deliveries on the SNX in particular. Plus, we do also know that there's been this transition phase to hardware 4, where Tesla right now is not really communicated much on that, so we might have people kind of holding off, especially in the United States, on just waiting for some communication on hardware 4.
All right, that being said, Tesla has also given us an update on the earnings date, so they say that they'll post their first-quarter results on Wednesday, April 19th, aftermarket close, so that is in line with when we would have expected it to be. No surprises on that date. See if there's anything else in here, sometimes Tesla sneaks some other announcements in. This just came out, so absorbing this just the same as everyone else right now.
For anyone that sees the semi, that's always up there. Nothing, no hints there. I always get questions on that. But let's flip over to Excel and just take a look at how this compares to expectations or rather to my forecast from Friday.
All right, so there's deliveries, but let's hop over to production here first. So I just quickly made some updates to this from Friday. So if we just quickly look at Friday's numbers, which are here, my expectation was 4 and 3,9,895, so just less than 1,000 vehicles off, really happy with that forecast.
And that means usually I'm pretty happy with where the production numbers came in. So 440,808, that is a new record for Tesla, up slightly quarter over quarter, but remember we did have two fewer production days in Q1, 90 versus 92 from Q4.
And there was impacts from Chinese New Year. We had model three shutdowns in Shanghai. And then of course we had a little bit of a shutdown for Giga Berlin to kick February off. So across different factories, you've got weeks of downtime.
Seem like Fremont had pretty consistent production throughout the quarter, though model S and X production was slightly down quarter over quarter. We can pop over and look at that, which this is now actualized.
貌似弗里蒙特在整个季度的生产都比较稳定,但 Model S 和 X 的生产季度对季度略有下降。我们可以去看看,这现在已经实现了。
So fill that in, the wrong color. But we can see that was down about 1200 vehicles quarter over quarter. The production rate on a daily basis or rather on a weekly basis, slightly down for us next to not too significantly, though.
If we look at total production rates then slide back over, total weekly production, not factoring in downtime was 34,285 vehicles per week. That's up from last quarter, 32,456. So probably the best gauge for how production truly was. Just take a look at that.
About 2.5% on a weekly production basis, and again, that also is not considering that downtime that we had. So in terms of the difference, I pretty much just added a little bit into Shanghai. We should see a little bit of potential upside there based on prior quarters or prior months, rather we've seen in November, Model 3 Model Y production peak at just over 13,000 per week and Model 3 production up at 7600.
So there's definitely some potential here for a little bit higher production from what I've got for Model Y at 57,500 and some upside potentially for the three as well. Though Tesla seems to be probably pushing that a little bit less as more of the demand probably on the Model Y site. So those are kind of the adjustments I made, mostly putting it into Shanghai, Berlin and Texas.
No adjustments that I've made there, but obviously when we're talking a thousand vehicle difference here, it couldn't be, you know, it could be pretty insignificant. And then Fremont mostly just holding those. So it looked like that clue that Tesla gave us on March 1st of the four million vehicles produced gave us a really good sort of insight into where things were going to come in for the quarter.
So it makes things a little bit easier. As for a year over year perspective, Tesla up 44% from Q1 last year off the top of my head, tough to remember kind of what the impacts that we had in that quarter were, looks like Shanghai was a little bit below rate and February and March last year. And then of course Berlin and Texas kind of just getting started.
So really great quarter or year over year production growth, usually Q1s softer for all those reasons that we mentioned down time Chinese New Year in terms of production and then deliveries as well. So if we flip over to deliveries then talk a little bit more about that and the inventory situation as well. We can see deliveries for an in 22,875 significantly up quarter of a quarter, 4% increase, which as we have talked about is not the norm.
So last year was flat year prior up 2% quarter over quarter, the year before that I think this was COVID impacted potentially down 21%, down 31% though in 2019, flat in 2018 up 13% 2017. So generally, you know, we're not seeing huge growth quarter of a quarter in Q1 again for a lot of those same reasons that we talked about on the production side year over year perspective on deliveries up 36% from Q1s 310,000 last year.
So right now, let's sort of annualize this Tesla 440,000 per year produced multiply that times four. We're at about one that are 1.76 million. Remember Tesla talked about delivery guidance for about 1.8 million for the year. So from our production standpoint already on track for a number in that ballpark. And when we think about the future quarters again considering Q1 being softer from a production standpoint should pretty easily be able to make that from a production standpoint as well as the continued growth that we should see from Berlin and Texas.
So tracking pretty well here towards guidance, obviously Tesla talked about really their internal targets being more in the 2 million vehicle ballpark. So that should definitely be achievable as well when we take out those things like down time and add a couple of extra days on top of the continued growth.
As for inventory, so that's kind of the big one, you know, we would have hoped to see a little bit less of a inventory buildup given that over the last two quarters Tesla has added about 56,000 vehicles to inventory. Now we get another 18,000 added here in Q1. So 75,000 vehicles added to inventory just in the last three quarters.
Now as Tesla grows, this should be partially expected Tesla as they become a bigger company, selling vehicles in more regions, more countries. There's just going to be more inventory. But we would have hoped that, you know, with such big builds, we wouldn't see quite as much, but nice to see at least not build as significantly as the last couple of quarters.
If we look at just sort of days of inventory, I haven't had a chance to calculate that, so we'll do some live math here again as usual. But we had about 13 days I'll flip back over to the browser here when we can take a look at what inventory was. We had about 13 days of inventory coming into the quarter from last quarter.
As we can see, that is a grown-over time, but 13 days of inventory for the automotive business, the automotive industry, really low. That's not going to grow too much here. The calculation for that is deliveries for the quarter divided by 75. That's a day of inventory according to the automotive news definition, so industry standard. So you just divide the 405,000 by 75. Gets you one day of inventory, multiply that by 13. Gets you about 70,000 vehicles in inventory coming into the quarter.
Now we add about 18,000 to that. So we've got about 88,000 vehicles in inventory to calculate a day of supply. We'll flip back and we'll take a look at deliveries. One second on that. So we take our 422, 875 divided by 75.
That gets us about 5638. We've got 88,000 divided by 5638. We've got about 15 and a half, 16 days of inventory. So going from 13 to 16 days, again, it's an increase. I would have liked to see that hold steady or decline a little bit. That's kind of what my forecast was, which basically keep in inventory days the same, but that has increased still significantly below industry, industry, industry average for Tesla on the inventory side.
So for it being the first quarter, not a huge deal, that being said, we did also have obviously the price cuts for the quarter, which you would have liked to see that draw down inventory a little bit. All right. So that's kind of the delivery report.
Trying to think if there's anything else really super important to mention. I am going to be working this into my model on share left later today. So hopefully I'll have an update out on that and we'll see kind of what this means for margin. And then in a couple of weeks, we'll go through that on Tesla daily as well.
And then yeah, I guess I'll take a quick look and see if there's any major questions here. People always ask the impact on share price. You know, who knows? We never know. But I think this, you know, being pretty close to consensus expectation there, hopefully means that Tesla kind of just moves forward from this report.
I think this quarter in particular, a lot of the focus is just going to be on margin. What was the impact to margins from the price cuts? And this doesn't really tell us a whole lot about that. Well, you know, investors probably going to be a little bit disappointed to see inventory grow to an extent that it did. Because again, maybe production expectations a little bit lower than that.
So I would say kind of mixed results in terms of investor reaction, but you know, sometimes you go through these events and through these days and you realize, oh, expectations were actually way lower and investors are happy. So we'll see, you know, I don't really have any strong feelings either way. It's not like Tesla blew the numbers out of the out of the water in terms of expectations. But at the same time, coming in a little bit ahead should be should be pretty solid.
All right. So, oh, X and Y. So again, I think there's, you know, an element of people holding off waiting to see a little bit more information on the hardware for transition. We did have price cuts later in the quarter for Tesla after we had seen inventory building. So talked about that very early on being a little bit of a concern. But at the same time, Tesla is just this quarter starting to shift these vehicles as they mentioned over to Europe, over to Asia. So there should be a lot of international demand that Tesla hasn't tapped yet.
And that gives me confidence that, you know, Tesla should have been able to sell more than the 11,000 vehicles that they did sell. So if those vehicles are just kind of, you know, stuck in transition, stuck in inventory, then it's hopefully not a major concern. That's, you know, definitely wouldn't be surprised if we see further price cuts on the S and the X, you know, as we talked about, especially the lower trims, I think those are still $10,000 higher than when Tesla announced the refresh.
And you know, we're 18 months, almost probably 24 months after that point now. So for Tesla to still be $10,000 higher, normally you'd have a higher price probably when you first refresh it, you have a lot, you know, spike of demand. So Tesla probably will work back towards that and maybe even a little bit lower than that at some point in time. And hopefully the cost reductions in materials that we've been talking about from sort of the big spikes that we have had, hopefully those will play their way through when Tesla can be able to still make really healthy margins on the S and the X at those prices.
Remember when they announced that refresh, they said that the cost of goods sold, the build of materials for those vehicles was a lower than the pre-refresh version and yet the prices were higher. So there should still be plenty of room for Tesla to take those prices down. And hopefully we just see, you know, demand increase a little bit in general in the auto industry. That's a little bit tougher right now.
Okay, just taking a look here through the comments.
好的,我只是在看评论。
Again, I think that's most of what we had to talk about.
再说一遍,我想那就是我们需要谈论的大部分内容了。
Again, this puts Tesla on, you know, on good track for their guidance for the year 1.8 million vehicles definitely attainable.
再说一遍,这使得特斯拉在今年的指引方面处于良好的轨道,确保达成180万车辆的目标是可实现的。
They're basically production rate annualizing to that right now. And we should see Berlin and Texas increase.
他们现在基本上正在将生产率年化。我们应该会看到柏林和德克萨斯的增加。
Shanghai was obviously a little bit lower this quarter than what we had seen last quarter.
本季度上海的表现明显比上季度稍微低了一些。
You know, we lost 20,000 vehicles of production there roughly from Shanghai.
你知道吗,大约有2万辆生产车辆在上海那里消失了。
So if you just assume Tesla kind of gets back to those levels and Q4 even had some downtime in it.
所以,如果你假设特斯拉会回到那些水平,甚至Q4中会有一些停机时间。
If you assume Tesla gets back to that, you know, that adds another 60,000 for the remaining three quarters, which already puts you over the 1.8 million vehicles produced.
And then Tesla's, you know, since they have had this opportunity to build inventory, hopefully the remaining quarters we don't continue to see sort of this same thing happening.
然后,你知道,由于特斯拉有机会建立库存,希望在未来的季度里我们不会再看到同样的情况发生。
It seemed like Tesla was kind of unwinding the wave a little bit, but maybe that was just a little bit of misinterpretation.
听起来特斯拉有点在放松这个波,但也许那只是有点误解。
Hopefully they'll share a little bit more on that with the earnings report.
希望他们在财报中能够分享更多关于这方面的信息。
And here expectations were 420k.
这里的预期是42万。
What are you talking about below expectations? I don't think I said, if I said below expectations, oh, they were talking to their commenters.
你在谈论什么是低于预期吗?我不认为我说过如果我说低于预期的话,哦,他们是在和评论者谈论。
Sorry. Yeah, just a little bit higher than expectations.
抱歉,嗯,略高于预期一点点。
Again, maybe a little bit lower than the whisper number.
再次说,也许比悄声数字再低一点点。
I guess we'll get a better idea of that tomorrow when we see the markets reaction.
我猜明天当我们看到市场的反应时,我们会更好地了解那个问题。
Thank you, Laura, for the super chat. Appreciate that.
谢谢你的超级聊天,劳拉。非常感谢。
Altair, do you think 500,000 production in Q2?
Altair,你认为Q2的产量会达到50万吗?
It's possible.
这是可能的。
Probably Texas is the big unknown right now.
目前来看,很可能德克萨斯州是我们不太清楚的一个大问题。
Tesla kind of makes the progress in Texas that they did in Berlin this quarter.
特斯拉在德克萨斯州这个季度有点像在柏林一样取得了进展。
That could add another 15,000 or so to Q2.
那可能会在第二季度再增加约15,000人。
Maybe another 15,000 increase from Berlin.
也许从柏林再增加1.5万。
So you've got maybe 30,000 between those two, which is, I guess they increased about roughly 20,000 in Q1.
那么你在这两个区间之间大概有3万美元,我猜Q1时增加了大约2万美元。
So say another 25,000 from Berlin, Texas.
还有来自德克萨斯州柏林的另外25000人。
And you've got maybe another 20,000 from Shanghai.
你还从上海那里得到了大约另外2万个。
Maybe another 5,000 out of three months.
或许再三个月内还需要另外5000个。
So I guess put those all together.
那么我猜把它们都放在一起吧。
You'd be at 50,000.
你会有五万美元。
And we had 440,000 vehicles produced this quarter.
这个季度,我们生产了44万辆汽车。
They're on sheet there, but pretty similar numbers.
它们在那张表上,数字非常相似。
So maybe you get up to like 490,000 seems like a pretty reasonable number.
那么,也许你增加到49万看起来是一个相当合理的数字。
I do have my forecast in here, but those have not been reviewed yet.
我这里确实有我的预测结果,但这些还没有受到审查。
So we'll pause on that.
所以我们先暂停一下。
Plus, you never know on downtime, especially at Texas, if Tesla is continuing to work really hard on Cybertruck, that could be impacting things.
It seems like it's progressing, but we don't know how quickly.
看起来它正在进展,但我们不知道进展有多快。
So still a lot of unknowns for the second quarter.
所以第二季度还有很多未知数。
Remind to focus on production, then deliveries.
请记得专注于生产,然后再考虑交付。
Yeah, I mean, as I've always said, for me, production is the most important.
是的,我的意思是,像我一直说的那样,对我来说,制作是最重要的。
That's why I spend more time in my forecasting on that.
这就是为什么我在我的预测中花更多的时间在这方面。
So you know, happy with that production forecast.
那么,你知道的,对于那个生产预测很满意。
We're at a point in time right now where the markets care way more about deliveries than they do production right now.
现在我们正处于一个时刻,市场对交付更加关注,而对生产的关注度则相对较低。
People are concerned that Tesla is bumping up against its demand plateau, especially just given the current high interest rates.
人们担心特斯拉即将接近需求高原,尤其是考虑到目前高利率的情况下。
That obviously adds cost to the vehicle in terms of financing.
显然,这会增加汽车的融资成本。
A lot of vehicle purchases are obviously financed.
很多汽车购买显然是有融资的。
So it just effectively makes the cost of vehicles more expensive.
这就有效地使车辆的成本更高了。
And just there's a lot of turmoil in the markets right now.
现在市场里有很多动荡。
So especially in China, where we've seen the automotive industry, you know, contract this quarter for sure.
在中国特别是这个季度汽车产业收缩了,这一点是毫无疑问的。
So right now, there's more of a focus on deliveries than there probably normally would be just given the inventory bill that we've had the last couple of quarters.
现在,由于我们在过去几个季度中的库存账单,我们更关注交付。
And I think the market's just wanting some signs that Tesla is in a strong demand position.
我认为市场只是想看到一些迹象,表明特斯拉处于强劲的需求位置。
And I don't know that this really fully answered that.
我不知道这真的完全回答了那个问题。
There are huge questions now that are going to pop up on the S and the X.
现在将出现许多关于S和X的重大问题。
Hopefully, you know, a little bit better on the three in the Y.
希望你知道,把 Y 里的三个字母稍微改进一下会更好一些。
And those are way more important to Tesla's financials.
这些对特斯拉的财务状况更加重要。
So, you know, again, going back to the reaction, I think it's just kind of, it's an okay report from investor expectations.
所以,你知道,再回到这个反应,我认为这只是一个符合投资者预期的普通报告。
I'm pretty happy with it because again, I care more about production.
我对它感到相当满意,因为我更关注生产。
And I think the production number here is really strong.
我觉得这里的生产数量真的很强大。
The difference between the production and delivery numbers, the importance of that difference will be a little bit more clear once we understand the margins because if Tesla still got really strong margins, that will tell investors that will tell the street that Tesla can continue to do what they did the last quarter, continue to drop prices down to match demand with supply.
You know, that's the whole equation that's what it's always been.
你知道的,这就是整个等式,一直都是这样。
Tesla is going to have prices at a point where they're selling all their production.
特斯拉的价格将会在销售所有生产量的点上。
That's effectively where they're at right now, even if there's a little bit of rockiness quarter to quarter.
实际上,这就是他们目前所处的位置,尽管每个季度都有些许波动。
So we've got sort of the supply, the demand picture, a little bit, it's not full obviously. It's just one quarter, a week quarter. But we've got some data points on that. Now we're sort of waiting for the other part of the picture, which is the financials, which once we have that, that'll give us more clarity on what sort of wiggle room Tesla has to continue to cut prices if they need to.
So you continue to increase demand for these vehicles in accordance with supply as they work towards the next generation vehicle. So as we've kind of talked about, I do think that Tesla is starting to come up a little bit towards, you know, not the end of the growth of the Model 3 and the Model Y, but we've had such explosive growth for these vehicles over the last couple of years that you just can't, you just can't continue that forever. Right.
So at some point that growth is going to slow down. We're starting to get to that point, I think, which is fine. It's healthy. That happened with the Model S and the Model X. But then Tesla unveiled and introduced the Model 3, unveiled and introduced the Model Y and that brought us to the next stage of growth. And that's where we're at right now, right? We're waiting for the next generation vehicle and that'll bring Tesla to the next stage of growth. Prior to that, we'll get the Cybertruck obviously. That'll be super exciting from a product perspective should add a little bit to the, you know, to the financials.
It's not going to be as big as 3 and Y, but it should be bigger than the S and the X. So that'll add a little bit as we sort of be a little bit of an appetizer. That's what you wait for the next generation platform. But, you know, that'll be the next stage of growth for Tesla along with continuing obviously progress on FSD.
So yeah, those are good questions in terms of production being more important than deliveries. That's not how the market's going to see it right now. But for me, that's always the most important because I think Tesla will ultimately be able to sell these cars. I think once we get into summer, hopefully demand is a little bit better. But obviously a lot of macro stuff going on that can influence that right now.
All right. Just reading through the comments here. Did see a couple of super chats. Nauranga, thank you. Appreciate that. Jason saying, good quarter for Elon not to be on the call. Then as he promised of not being on calls unless something important to say. Just to clarify, I don't think that was a promise. I think that was more of just a comment in passing that he thinks that he didn't need to be on calls going forward unless there's something important to say. But obviously we've seen him be on all the calls since then, except for one. And that one call went well. So working a little bit against Elon in that favor.
But I'm fine with Elon being on the calls. I appreciate hearing his perspective, even if it's occasions where he's not catering to Wall Street, right? And sometimes investors kind of like when their management teams cater to Wall Street because that can mean short term gains. But hopefully most of us here are not of that mind. I would personally rather hear from Elon since he's got a lot of interesting things to say.
All right. Well, I think that's good enough for today. Obviously we'll spend some time kind of thinking about these digesting these numbers. Nothing too crazy, roughly in line with expectations. So at least in terms of the production side. Obviously, deliveries a little bit low. We can calculate the difference there. See 423. I was at 432.8. So yeah, 2.3% below for deliveries from my expectation. People are always weird about how those things get phrased. But yeah, a little bit below my expectations, but ahead of consensus. So in the same ballpark of expectations.
All right. We'll wrap it up there then. As always, thank you for listening. Make sure to subscribe and sign up for notifications. You can also find me on Twitter at Tessa Podcast. Have a great rest of your weekend and we'll see you tomorrow for the Monday, April 3rd episode of Tessa Daily. Thank you.