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Stanphyl Capital’s commentary for the month ended January 31, 2023, discussing their quick place in Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA).
Desk of Contents present
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margin-destroying worth cuts
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lack of product edge
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tesla is netflix
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nothing proprietary
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so right here is tesla’s competitors in vehicles…
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and in china, the place tesla’s ev market share is now declining…
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here is tesla’s competitors in autonomous driving; the independents all have offers with main oems…
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here is the place tesla’s competitors will get its battery cells…
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here is tesla’s competitors in charging networks…
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and here is tesla’s competitors in storage batteries…
Margin-Destroying Value Cuts
tesla kicked off 2023 with large, margin-destroying worth cuts worldwide (on prime of huge cuts in This autumn 2022), and whereas this can undoubtedly generate extra gross sales, 2023’s roughly 12% ASP lower vs. This autumn, mixed with 2023 manufacturing (and, we’ll generously assume, supply) steerage of 1.8 million vehicles imply 2023’s earnings might be no less than 30% decrease than 2022’s, and maybe as a lot as 40% decrease.
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In different phrases, Tesla is not a“development” firm except you want your“development” to be profitless!
Most disturbingly for Tesla bulls, regardless of these 12% common worth cuts vs. This autumn, at 1.8 million items the corporate is barely guiding to 11% extra supply quantity vs. This autumn’s 405,000 annualized run-rate of 1.62 million.
It is also solely guiding to 2% extra manufacturing than This autumn’s annualized charge of 1.76 million, so the place will the“quantity financial savings” to help worth cuts come from? And what is going to Tesla do for its subsequent“development trick”? Promote vehicles at a loss?
As Tesla slashes costs it can undoubtedly promote extra vehicles, however some other auto firm can do the identical factor. Goodbye“story-stock tech firm” and good day“low-margin, cyclical automotive firm” in an business with single-digit PE ratios!
For some valuation perspective, BMW (with a market cap of round $68 billion) sells round 2.5 million vehicles a 12 months with larger internet margins than Tesla could have in 2023, and it makes the very best electrical SUV now available on the market (the brand new ix ), the very best luxurious EV (the brand new i7 ), and among the many greatest small luxurious EVs (the brand new i4 ).
If Tesla sells 1.8 million vehicles this 12 months (and keep in mind, that will be simply 11% development over This autumn annualized), it could be 72% the scale of BMW with solely barely larger development however with decrease internet margins.
A proportionate-to-deliveries 72% of BMW’s market cap would worth Tesla at simply $49 billion, which might be solely round $15.50 share vs. this month’s closing worth within the $173s! (And please do not lecture me about Tesla’s“battery enterprise,” which nets virtually nothing and is in a particularly aggressive, low-margin business for each participant.)
(By the way in which, I generously assume that 2023 Tesla earnings will embrace some mixture of quarterly environmental credit equal to This autumn’s obscene $467 million, with emission credit score gross sales progressively being changed by numerous new battery manufacturing and various fuel-derived credit.
I additionally credit score Tesla for the complete $324 million in quarterly so-called“Full Self-Driving” revenue it acknowledged in This autumn, despite the fact that it is a fraudulently named product that is more likely to be recalled by the NHTSA, thereby presenting Tesla with an enormous multi-billion-dollar legal responsibility.)
Loss Of Product Edge
In the meantime, Tesla has objectively misplaced its“product edge,” with many competing vehicles now providing comparable or higher real-world vary , higher interiors, comparable or quicker charging speeds and significantly better high quality. (Tesla ranks close to the underside of shopper reviews’ reliability survey whereas British shopper group which? discovered it to be one of many least dependable vehicles in existence.)
Thus, because of rivals’ short-term manufacturing constraints, ready occasions are actually longer for almost all of Tesla’s direct EV rivals than they’re for a Tesla.
In reality, Tesla is probably going now the second, third or fourth alternative for a lot of EV patrons, and solely maintains its quantity lead although a short-lived edge in manufacturing capability that can disappear over the following 12 to 36 months as rivals quickly improve the power to supply their superior EVs.
Tesla’s poorly-built mannequin y faces present (or imminent) competitors from the significantly better made (and sometimes simply higher) electrical hyundai ioniq 5 , kia ev6 , ford mustang mach e , cadillac lyriq , nissan ariya , audi this fall e-tron , bmw ix3 , mercedes eqb , volvo xc40 Recharge, chevrolet blazer ev & $30,000 equinox ev and polestar 3 .
And Tesla’s Mannequin 3 now has terrific direct“sedan competitors” from Volvo’s lovely polestar 2 , the nice new bmw i4 , the upcoming hyundai ioniq 6 and volkswagen id.7 , and a number of native rivals in China.
And within the high-end electrical automotive section worldwide the porsche taycan (the bottom mannequin of which is now significantly inexpensive than Tesla’s Mannequin S) outsells the Mannequin S, whereas the spectacular new bmw i7 , mercedes eqs , audi e-tron gt and lucid air make it seem like a quick Yugo, and the extraordinarily effectively reviewed new bmw ix , mercedes eqs suv and audi q8 etron (in addition to a number of new Chinese language fashions) do the identical to the Mannequin X.
And oh, the joke of a“pickup truck” Tesla previewed in 2019 (and nonetheless hasn’t proven in production-ready type) will not be a lot of“development engine” both, as by the point it is in mass-production in 2024 it can enter a dogfight of a market vs. Ford’s hot-selling all-electric f-150 lightning and GM’s implausible 2023 electrical silverado (which already has almost 200,000 reservations ), whereas Rivian’s pick-up has gotten glorious opinions , and ram can even be out with an excellent electrical truck in 2024 .
Tesla Is Netflix
Certainly, for years I’ve mentioned“Tesla is Blackberry”-the maker of a first-generation model of a product that-once the market was proven-would be supplanted into area of interest obscurity by newer, higher variations; now I can present a way more current analogy: tesla is netflix .
For years Netflix had an absurd valuation primarily based on its pioneering place in streaming media, however as soon as it proved that such a market existed myriad rivals swarmed throughout it, and in 2022 the inventory collapsed.
I consider Musk is aware of that Tesla is“the following Netflix” (therefore his current“Twitter shopping for distraction”), with VW Group, Hyundai/Kia, Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, Mercedes, BYD & different Chinese language rivals and, in a number of years, Toyota & Honda, being the Disney, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Hulu, Paramount+, and many others. of the electrical automotive market, stealing Tesla’s share and finally pounding its inventory worth into low double-digits, the place it could be valued as“simply one other automotive firm.”
In the meantime, the NHTSA’s investigation of Tesla’s lethal Autopilot is now continuing“actually quick ,” the final required step earlier than (lastly!) demanding a full recall, and in January it was revealed that elon musk personally directed its faux, fraudulent promotional video (one thing extraordinarily just like what Theranos did with its blood machines and nikola with its truck ), and that the doj is investigating him for it and so is the sec .
The refund legal responsibility potential for Tesla for that is within the billions of {dollars}, and presumably even the tens of billions if a category motion lawsuit proves that the vehicles concerned have been bought solely because of the (fallacious) promise of“full self-driving.”
And, after all, there might be an enormous“valuation reappraisal” for Tesla’s inventory because the world wakes as much as the truth that its so-called“autonomy know-how” is lethal, trailing-edge rubbish that shopper reviews now ranks simply seventh vs. rivals’ techniques (behind Ford, GM, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota and Volkswagen). In the meantime, the NHTSA continues to report a slew of Autopilot-related deaths, but Tesla has bought this trashy software program for over six years now:
…and nonetheless promotes it on its web site by way of the aforementioned fully fraudulent video ! (For all Tesla-related deaths cited within the media-which is probably going solely a small fraction of people who have occurred-please see tesladeaths.com .)
Need to see one other Elon Musk/Tesla fraud summarized in a easy bar graph ? On this current Client Experiences take a look at, be aware which of those vehicles by no means comes close-in any environmental conditions-to assembly its claimed EPA vary:
Nothing Proprietary
One other favourite Tesla hype story has been constructed round so-called“proprietary battery know-how.” In reality although, Tesla has nothing proprietary there-it does not make them, it buys them from panasonic , catl and lg , and it is the most important liar within the business relating to the real-world vary of its vehicles.
And if new-format 4680 cells enter the market, even when Tesla makes a few of its personal, different producers will gladly promote them to anybody , and BMW has already introduced it can purchase them from CATL and EVE.
Concerning security, as famous earlier on this letter, Tesla continues to deceptively promote its massively harmful so-called“Autopilot” system; God solely is aware of what number of extra individuals this monstrosity unleashed on public roads will kill regardless of the ntsb condemning it.
Elsewhere in security, the Chinese language authorities compelled the recall of tens of hundreds of Teslas for a harmful suspension defect the corporate spent years making an attempt to cowl up , and Tesla has been hit by a class-action lawsuit within the u.s. for a similar defect.
Tesla additionally knowingly bought vehicles that it knew have been a fireplace hazard and did the identical with photo voltaic techniques , and after initially refusing to take action voluntarily, it was compelled to recall a dangerously faulty touchscreen . In different phrases, on the subject of the security of consumers and harmless bystanders, Tesla is really one of the crucial vile corporations on Earth. In the meantime the large variety of lawsuits of every type towards the corporate continues to escalate.
So Right here Is Tesla’s Competitors In Vehicles…
(be aware: these hyperlinks are recurrently up to date)
porsche taycan
porsche taycan cross turismo
porsche macan electrical suv formally coming in 2023
volkswagen id.3
volkswagen id.4 electrical suv
volkswagen unveils id.6 suv ev in china
volkswagen id.buzz electrical van
volkswagen id.7 luxurious sedan
new sketch of 2025 volkswagen id.1 unveiled
vw’s cupra born
volkswagen unveils $7.1b dedication to spice up product line-up, r&d, mfg in n. america
audi q8 e-tron electrical suv
audi e-tron gt
audi this fall e-tron
audi q6 e-tron electrical suv
audi a6 e-tron: 2023’s new electrical tesla fighter spied
audi will broaden ev lineup with electrical a6 wagon
audi tt to be axed in 2023 for ’emotional’, electrical substitute
hyundai ioniq 5
hyundai ioniq 6
hyundai kona electrical
genesis reveals their first ev on the e-gmp platform, the electrical gv60 crossover
genesis electrified gv70 revealed with 483 horsepower and awd
kia niro electrical: 239-mile vary & $39,000 earlier than subsidies
kia ev6: charging in the direction of the longer term
kia ev9 to land in us in 2023 with 300-miles vary, $50,000 worth
kia ev4 on track to develop electrical suv vary
jaguar’s all-electric i-pace
jaguar to develop into all-electric model; land rover to get 6 electrical fashions
daimler will make investments greater than $47b in evs and be all-electric prepared by 2030
mercedes eqs: the primary electrical car within the luxurious class
2023 mercedes eqs suv is a seven-seat ev flagship with as much as 536 hp
2023 mercedes eqe electrical sedan
mercedes eqe suv to rival bmw ix and tesla mannequin x
mercedes eqc electrical suv obtainable now in europe & china
mercedes-benz launches the eqv, its first fully-electric passenger van
mercedes-benz eqb makes its european debut, us gross sales confirmed
mercedes-benz unveils eqa electrical suv with 265 miles of vary and ~$46,000 worth
ford mustang mach-e
ford f-150 lightning
ford set to launch ‘mini mustang mach-e’ electrical suv in 2023
ford to launch 7 evs in europe in large electrical push
ford unveils lincoln star electrical suv idea because it readies so as to add 4 new evs by 2026
chevrolet blazer ev
chevrolet equinox ev
chevrolet bolt sedan, 259-mile vary beginning at $31,000
chevrolet bolt euv electrical crossover
cadillac all-electric lyriq
gmc electrical hummer pick-up and suv
gm electrical silverado pickup truck
gmc sierra ev denali
gm launches brightdrop to affect the supply of products and companies
gm & honda will codevelop reasonably priced evs focusing on hottest car segments
two jeep evs to make u.s. debuts in 2024
bmw leads off ev offensive with ix3
bmw expands ev choices with ix tech flagship and i4 sedan
bmw i7 ev, with 600 hp, might be strongest variant of recent 7 collection flagship
bmw ix1 revealed with 313 hp, 272 miles wltp vary
renault-nissan alliance plows $26b into ev blitz- will collectively launch 35 new evs
nissan ariya: all-electric crossover suv
nissan leaf e+ with 226-mile vary is out there now
nissan unveils $18 billion electric-vehicle technique
polestar 2 sedan
polestar 3 electrical suv
volvo xc40 recharge electrical suv
volvo c40 recharge electrical crossover
volvo ex90 electrical suv
renault upgrades zoe electrical automotive as competitors intensifies
renault dacia spring electrical suv
renault to spice up low-volume alpine model with 3 evs
renault’s electrical megane will debut new digital cockpit
stellantis guarantees ‘heart-of-the-market suv’ from new, 8-vehicle ev platform
ram 1500 revolution battery-electric car unveiled at ces 2023
chrysler to go all-ev by 2028
honda, sony to start out premium ev deliveries in 2026
honda pours $40 billion into electrification, targets 2 million ev manufacturing by 2030
alfa romeo’s first electrical automotive will arrive in 2024
peugeot e-208
peugeot e-2008: the electrical and versatile suv
peugeot 308 will get full-electric model
peugeot’s full-electric 3008 and 5008 suvs could have as much as 700 km vary
subaru exhibits off its first electrical car, the solterra suv
citroen compact ev challenges vw id3 on worth
rivian electrical pickup vans & suvs
maserati granturismo debuts as model’s first ev with three motors, awd
mini cooper se electrical
toyota bz4x
toyota could have lineup of 30 full evs by 2030; lexus might be all-electric model
opel corsa-e
opel expands ev lineup with battery-electric astra
vauxhall mokka electrical
skoda enyaq iv electrical suv
skoda enyaq electrical coupe
skoda plans small ev, cheaper variants to tackle french, korean rivals
byd presents three bevs for european market
nio expands into europe and past
lucid motors: electrical luxurious vehicles
rolls-royce electrical spectre, obtainable 2023
bentley will begin output of first full ev in 2025
aston martin will construct electrical automobiles in uk from 2025
two new electrical vehicles from mahindra in india; international tesla rival e-car quickly
sono sion
foxconn goals for 10% of electrical automotive platform market by 2025
And In China, The place Tesla’s EV Market Share Is Now Declining…
byd is #1 in chinese language evs, promoting excess of tesla
volkswagen to spice up chinese language ev capability to 1m by 2023
audi-faw’s $3.3 billion electrical car enterprise
nio
xpeng motors
hozon/neta
li auto
gac aion
leap motors
gm plans to launch over 15 ev fashions in china by 2025
ford mustang mach-e rolls off meeting line in china
cheaper than tesla: honda takes intention at china’s center class
bmw i3 debuts as all-electric 3 collection just for china
hongqi
geely
zeekr premium evs by geely
baidu and geely put almost $400 million extra into their electrical automotive enterprise
china-made mercedes-benz eqe hits market
baic
hyundai, baic motor to inject $942 mn in china jv for evs
toyota companions with byd to construct reasonably priced $30,000 electrical automotive
lexus rz 450e steers for china
dongfeng
saic
renault launches gross sales of first ev in china
nissan expects 40% of gross sales in china to be electrified by 2026
changan types subsidiary avatar know-how to develop sensible evs with huawei, catl
wm motors/weimar
chery
seres
enovate
singulato
jac motors
iconiq motors
aiways
skyworth auto
youxia
human horizons
xiaomi declares plans for 4 electrical car fashions
This is Tesla’s Competitors In Autonomous Driving; The Independents All Have Offers With Main OEMs…
waymo ranked prime & tesla final in guidehouse leaderboard on automated driving techniques
tesla has a self-driving technique different corporations deserted years in the past
waymo operates robotaxis now
gm’s cruise operates robotaxis now
mobileye operates driverless take a look at fleets in europe and the u.s.
cadillac tremendous cruisetm units the usual for hands-free freeway driving
ford’s hands-free“blue cruise”
mercedes launches sae degree 3 drive pilot system
honda legend sedan with degree 3 autonomy now obtainable in japan
motional (hyundai) & uber announce autonomous ride-hail and supply companies
stellantis completes acquisition of aimotive to speed up autonomous driving journey
amazon’s zoox will take a look at its autonomous automobiles on seattle’s wet streets
baidu to additional deploy 200 driverless automobiles in china in 2023
alibaba-backed autox unveils first driverless robotaxi manufacturing line in china
pony.ai accepted for public driverless robotaxi service in beijing
saic-backed xiangdao chuxing kicks off robotaxi pilot operation in shenzhen
weride greenlighted for autonomous highway take a look at with empty driver’s seat in beijing
This is The place Tesla’s Competitors Will Get Its Battery Cells…
panasonic (making offers with a number of automakers)
lg
samsung
sk innovation
toshiba
catl
byd
northvolt
volkswagen to construct six electric-vehicle battery factories in europe
gm’s ultium
gm to develop lithium-metal batteries with solidenergy techniques
sk on and ford type blueoval sk, an ev battery three way partnership
hyundai groups with sk to make batteries for u.s.-built evs
hyundai motor growing solid-state ev batteries
bmw & ford put money into strong energy to safe all solid-state batteries for future electrical automobiles
stellantis affirms dedication to construct battery manufacturing unit in italy with mercedes, totalenergies
stellantis and samsung sdi to take a position over $2.5b in battery manufacturing plant in usa
stellantis and lg to take a position over $5 billion cad in three way partnership for li-ion battery plant in canada
stellantis and factorial vitality to collectively develop solid-state batteries for electrical automobiles
mercedes-benz to construct 8 battery factories in push to develop into electric-only automaker
mercedes-benz and sila obtain breakthrough with excessive silicon automotive battery
toyota to take a position $5.3bn to make ev batteries in u.s. and japan
toyota outlines solid-state battery tech, $13.6 billion funding
honda and lg vitality formally set up battery manufacturing three way partnership
honda, gs yuasa comply with collaborate in lithium-ion batteries
daimler joins stellantis as associate in european battery cell enterprise acc
renault indicators ev battery offers with envision, verkor for french crops
nissan to construct $1.4bn ev battery plant in uk with chinese language associate
nissan declares proprietary solid-state batteries
foxconn breaks floor on first ev battery plant
envision-aesc
one
eve
freyr
verkor
farasis
microvast
akasol
cenat
wanxiang
eve vitality
svolt
romeo energy
prologium
morrow
This is Tesla’s Competitors In Charging Networks…
infrastructure invoice: $7.5 billion in the direction of nationwide community of 500,000 ev chargers
electrify america
evgo
chargepoint
ionity europe
shell
51 u.s. electrical corporations commit to construct nationwide ev quick charging community by finish of 2023
gm, evgo, and pilot will set up 2,000 quick chargers at journey facilities
gm to broaden entry to ev charging with greater than 40,000 charging stations
mercedes will construct its personal ev charging community
ford to have one of many largest dc fast-charging networks in us
volkswagen powers up the grid to tackle tesla
volkswagen-backed cams eyes deployment of 17,000 charging factors in china by 2025
circle okay begins north american ev quick charger rollout, plans 200-site community by 2024
porsche to construct out its personal community of ev charging stations
petro-canada coast-to-coast canadian charging community
volta
e.on
bp
volkswagen and bp associate to deploy as much as 8,000 ev chargers throughout eu/uk
smatric
allego
podpoint
instavolt
fastned
complete
nio battery swap stations
bmw to construct 360,000 charging factors in china to juice electrical automotive gross sales
evie
tritium, dc-america be a part of forces to supply coast-to-coast ev charging community
And This is Tesla’s Competitors In Storage Batteries…
panasonic
samsung
lg vitality options
catl
byd
aes + siemens (fluence)
GE
hitachi abb
toshiba
saft
johnson contols
enersys
solarwatt
sonnen
generac
gm vitality
canadian photo voltaic
kokam
eaton
tesvolt
leclanche
lockheed martin
honeywell
eos vitality storage
ess
electriq energy
redflow
primus energy
simpliphi energy
invinity
murata
bollore
adara
blue planet
aggreko
orison
powin vitality
nidec
powervault
kore energy
shanghai electrical
lithiumwerks
natron vitality
vitality vault
ambri
voltstorage
cadenza innovation
morrow
gridtential
villara
elestor
solaredge
q-cells
huawei
toyota
ads-tec
type vitality
enphase
sumitomo electrical
stryten vitality
freyr
growatt
polarium
alfen
quino vitality
gotion
zincfive
dragonfly vitality
Thanks,
Mark Spiegel
Stanphyl Capital