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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Ford Unveils Massive EV Losses – Tesla’s Dominance on Display (03.23.23)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

➤ Ford separates business units, revealing EV profitability for the first time
➤ Electrek reports on Tesla’s EV tax credit expectations
➤ Tesla begins offering extended warranties
➤ New charging product

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Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Rob now we're here and today we've got a really interesting topic as Ford

0:11.2

has published their restated financials putting up their business segments so isolating

0:15.9

out EVs which is one of the first times we get access to these types of financials to

0:19.8

compare with Tesla.

0:21.2

Then we've also got a report on the status of the EV tax credit and a couple other items

0:24.8

as well.

0:25.8

Quick look at the stock after a strong start today Tesla trailing off throughout the day

0:28.9

finishing up just six tenths of a percent close to $192.22 all the NASDAQ was up 1% on

0:34.9

the day.

0:35.9

Alright let's get right into these restated Ford financials this is a fascinating first

0:40.4

look at how Tesla's competition compares from a profitability perspective often we see

0:45.2

vehicle specs and things like that we talk about how Tesla is better on profitability

0:49.2

but actual numbers are really hard to come by especially from legacy auto they tend to

0:52.7

hold these very close to their chest.

0:54.8

So kudos to Ford for actually being a little bit more transparent here.

0:57.8

I think this goes a pretty long way in showing that they are committed to EVs.

1:01.8

So how they split this up they've got Ford blue that's basically legacy ice hybrid vehicles

1:06.9

Ford model E that is EVs and then Ford Pro which is commercial vehicles and services.

1:12.7

So this does actually give us a pretty clean look at Ford's EVs this is mostly the Mustang

1:16.4

Mach E the Ford F-150 lightning it is still a little bit convoluted as is pretty much inevitable

1:21.5

with the business of this type but as you can see from this diagram there are still some

1:24.8

flows between these businesses and as far as I can tell we are still missing a couple

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