Episode 339: Product Roadmap Update + Q4 Earnings Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Tesla holds its Q4 earnings call, and as always I’ve got all of the highlights and analysis from the event – including Elon Musk’s much-anticipated product roadmap update. Plus as a bonus: new Cybertruck details!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Tesla holds its Q4 earnings call, and as always I've got all of the highlights and analysis from the event, |
| 0:10.1 | including Elon Musk's much anticipated product roadmap update. Oh, What's happening, |
| 0:40.0 | happening friends, I'm Ryan McCaffray, joined as always by my canine companion, Daisy the Boxer. This is Ride the Lightning episode 339 for January 30th, 2022. |
| 0:46.7 | It has been a busy week for me with the podcast. |
| 0:49.7 | Normally, just to give you a little bit of insight, |
| 0:51.7 | I work on the podcast every night just |
| 0:54.0 | sometimes it's a lot sometimes it's a little sometimes it's just catching up on ride |
| 0:58.1 | the lightning hotline calls sometimes it's putting the news together whatever it is but on earnings call episodes like this one |
| 1:05.2 | I more or less just kind of have to lay low until Wednesday the earnings calls are usually |
| 1:11.9 | on Wednesdays. |
| 1:13.0 | And then, since I record on Friday nights, I have to sprint hard to the finish line to get it done. |
| 1:20.0 | And boy, was there a lot to get to on this one so let's get started now normally I don't |
| 1:27.2 | say too much about the shareholder letter and end up getting into the earnings |
| 1:31.5 | call itself pretty quickly but I think in this shareholder |
| 1:35.2 | letter there's actually a lot to talk about. |
| 1:38.1 | So let's start there. |
| 1:39.9 | The letter opens with this summary. |
| 1:43.0 | 2021 was a breakthrough year for Tesla. |
| 1:46.0 | There should no longer be doubt about the viability and profitability of electric vehicles. |
| 1:52.0 | With our deliveries up 87% in 2021, we achieve the highest |
| 1:57.6 | quarterly operating margin among all volume OEMs based on the latest available data demonstrating that EVs can be more |
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