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The supply chain issues that have wracked the rest of the automotive industry for more than a year appear to have finally caught up with Tesla. The EV automaker announced on Wednesday’s Q2 investors report that its automotive revenue has declined by more than 13 percent following last quarter’s record-breaking mark despite ending the quarter with “the highest vehicle production month” in company history.
Per the company, Tesla produced 258,580 vehicles last quarter and delivered 201,304 of them. During last quarter’s investor call, CEO Elon Musk estimated that the company could increase its annual deliveries by 60 percent in 2022. To date, the company has delivered 564,743 vehicles and would need to sell another 935,257 of them by year’s end to meet that goal.
This could prove challenging given that the company produced nearly 18 percent fewer vehicles this quarter than last (though still up 27 percent year over year). COVID-related lockdowns shuttered the Shanghai Gigafactory for most of Q2, though ramping production at the newer Austin and Berlin-Brandenburg plants have helped offset the closure. Austin has begun producing vehicles with the company’s new 4680 battery cells and the Berlin Gigafactory notched a production rate of more than a thousand vehicles in a single week during the last three months.
Tesla had generally managed to avoid the supply chain woes that have hamstrung the automotive industry since the start of the pandemic — until now. The MSRP of a Model Y long-range currently sits just under $66,000, that’s 30 percent higher than it cost in 2021.
The company was sure to point out that its total revenue grew 42 percent year over year to $16.9 billion, operating income had improved year over year to $2.5 billion (with an impressive 14.6 percent operating margin) and is currently sitting atop a $18.9 billion pile of cash.
This is thanks in large part to Tesla’s liquidating 75 percent of its Bitcoin holdings (worth $936 million) over the past three months. The company invested $1.5 billion in the digital pseudo-currency in February 2021 and sold off a 10 percent stake a couple months later. Tesla’s backing of Bitcoin, much as with Musk’s pet Dogecoin currency, helped to further mainstream the crypto schemes. Musk reportedly had “a super bad feeling about the economy” in June.
Tesla executives are scheduled to hop on an investor teleconference after markets close this afternoon at 5:30 pm ET / 2:30 pm PT so stay tuned for updates live from the call.
Developing…
Hydrogen has been touted to be the ultimate clean power fuel, and no one denies its qualities. However, many challenges remain, including the safe storage and transport of Hydrogen fuel.
Despite numerous safety studies by universities, governments, and car makers like Toyota, Hydrogen still gets a bad reputation. People would like a storage solution that’s not a high-pressure tank.
Deakin university might have a solution: its researchers have discovered an energy-efficient way to capture hydrogen gas into a boron nitride powder. The powder has a large surface area relative to its volume, making it an ideal capture material.
Once the gas has been absorbed into the powder, it can be transported at normal atmospheric pressure, which is deemed safer than a high-pressure tank or liquid hydrogen. The researchers point out that their technique is also less energy-intensive and safer than the other storage alternatives.
When required for use as a fuel, the hydrogen can be freed by warming the power that can then be reused later for the same purpose. It remains to be seen if this technique can scale to an industrial scale and how practical it would be in real applications, but it’s a fascinating breakthrough.
Of course, there’s also the question of how hydrogen is generated in the first place, and hopefully, it will come from clean sources such as this experimental alloy or plants.
Powdered Hydrogen For Safe Energy Transportation and Storage
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