1/ No, @skorusARK. Think this through. First of all, you really think that Tesla would waste its already-constrained battery production on a 90kWh pack for a "car for the masses" with a 405mi range?! NO! Tesla has no issue currently selling $38k Model 3s with 250mi range.
2/ Let's be more realistic. The "Model 2" will likely have a 45kWh pack, with a range of 202mi (4.5mi/kWh) to 243mi (5.4mi/kWh). ID.3 range.
3/ Also, why are you keeping gross margins fixed? If Tesla can even get down to $56/kWh, $56/kWh x 45kWh = $2,520 ÷ $25,000 = 10.1% of COGS, which imputes an increase of 9.1% that can be, ceteris paribus, added to the current 15% gross margin = 24.1% total gross margin.
4/ Let's say Tesla sells 500k $25k "Model 2s" in 2024: Under your assumptions, Tesla would make $2.5B in profit and would require 45GWh of batteries. Under "mine", it would make $3B in profit and would require only 22.5GWh of batteries.
5/ Unfortunately, though, none of this matters because these cost and range projections on which you're basing all of this are for TESLA'S cells, which the $25k car won't use. Model 2 will use LFP.
6/ Anyway, however you figure your cost curve projections, none of this will really matter too much for @ARKInvest. By 2024, will be Ark's largest holding, "Golden Goose" or not.
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ARK locks its Tesla models, but we unlocked them. I'm going to dig into @ARKInvest’s new Tesla model this weekend, but before that, let's look at what ARK thought about 2023.
[Unanswered issues with past two years’ models quote-tweeted here] @wintonARK
Remember, just last year, ARK’s bull case figured Tesla would sell 3 million cars in 2023—its bear case 2.4 million. It also thought Tesla would do $174B in automotive revenue this year (2022 model bull case), or $141B on the low-end (2022 bear case). In Q1 2023, it did $19.4B.
In 2020, @ARKInvest thought Tesla would do $315 billion in revenue in 2023. Tesla did less than 10% of that in the first quarter so far.
So Bloomberg came out with a story this morning about how Jack Ma is staying away from China.
A few hours later, Jack Ma was literally visiting a school in Hangzhou, and Bloomberg had to "update" its entire article.
You can't make this stuff up.😂
The authors of the story are no longer listed (LMAO), but you can still find them in the metadata.
A video surfaced yesterday of what looked to be Jack Ma in a vehicle in China. "China watchers" were dismissing it, saying the video wasn't taken recently. People were even trying to decode an inspection sticker to prove Ma couldn't possibly be in China.
J.P. Morgan's 2022 Global Autos Survey just came out. This is a good indicator of demand going into 2023.
JPM says, "As compared to our survey results from 2021, we see evidence across countries such that consumers are less likely to buy a new car in 2023."
Top brand preference for budget friendly EVs is typically Toyota and Volkswagen, and BYD in China.
For premium EVs, Tesla is still a favorite in most countries, followed by Audi.