TSLA Q4 2024 Earnings
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Call Details
- Call Title: Tesla, Inc. Q4 2024 Earnings Call
- Date: January 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC
- Management Team:
- Travis Axelrod (Head of Investor Relations)
- Elon Musk (CEO)
- Vaibhav Taneja (CFO)
- Ashok Elluswamy (VP of AI)
- Sheryl (Executive)
- Nathan (Executive)
Call Summary
Financial Performance
- Tesla delivered vehicles at an annualized rate of nearly $2 million per year in Q4.
- Model Y was reported as the best-selling vehicle of any kind for 2024.
- Net income for the quarter was positively impacted by a $600 million mark-to-market benefit from Bitcoin due to a new accounting standard.
- Free cash flow for the quarter was $2 billion and free cash flow for the full year 2024 was $3.6 billion.
- Automotive gross margin declined quarter-over-quarter primarily due to lower ASPs and prior-period recognition of FSD-related revenue in Q3.
- Service and other gross profit grew year-over-year but declined sequentially due to higher service center costs and weaker used car margins.
- Energy storage deployments reached an all-time high year-over-year in Q4 but deployments remain supply constrained and can fluctuate sequentially.
Guidance
- Tesla intends to launch unsupervised full self-driving as a paid service in Austin in June 2025.
- Elon expressed confidence that unsupervised FSD will be released in California this year and that many U.S. regions will have unsupervised FSD by year-end.
- Company expects at least 50% year-over-year growth in energy storage deployments in 2025.
- CapEx for 2025 is expected to be flat year-over-year compared to 2024.
- All factories are scheduled to start producing the new Model Y next month, with several weeks of lost production expected during the changeover.
- Battery pack availability is cited as the primary production constraint for the year and is a focus area for remediation.
- Optimistic multi-year expectations were reiterated for ramping Optimus and autonomy, but specific multi-year volume targets were described as aspirational.
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