I know you've all been waiting for my take, so here it is.
Earnings call was upbeat. Tesla is being nimble again: on-the-fly adjusting to the new macro reality (including the IRA) which now means, for the mission: incredibly aggressive pricing to lead to even wider uptake. and even faster uptake. More butts in seats in 2023 = more cars sold in 2024 (advertising Tesla style).
And, for scale, the Model Y already beat the F-150 in volume last year. At inflated 2022 prices.
The downside of lower margins is easily overlooked when one realizes they are still industry leading and the company is still growing profitably.
(Not) coincidentally, Mr. Akio ("silent majority") Toyoda stepped down immediately after. Bullish AF for the slugabeds, there: soon may they wake for all our sake.
Tesla aiming for 2M cars (while guiding for 1.8M due to recent spate of world changing events) made sense to me, anyway. Also, gotta give the press something controversial to spill ink over. Then the Twitter spiel, less said there the better.
The ongoing hints about TE and the hints that major announcements might come on Investor Day were quite tantalizing.
Yes, still seems to me they are dragging out 4680 ramp-up as long as possible. Makes sense if you are still tweaking Line 1 to not finish out Lines 2-4 until Line 1 is dialed in, but I really, REALLY want to see those babies take off this year. Cheaper, mass-producible using less energy, way fewer wiring connections per battery pack, all that mess. Cheaper cars, cheaper Semi's, cheaper Megapacks.
My humble request for 2023: drown 'em in 4680's.
That is all.
HODL