It’s only logical too. Right now is a shift in priorities from Vehicle deliveries to self driving rollout that is expected to to take a year or so maybe 2 to be fully rolled out nationwide and hopefully internationally.
And this quarter is the end of the EV incentives for the $7,500 tax rebate which I’d imagine significantly pulls forward demand into Q3. And then because of that it only makes sense for them to delay the rollout of their cheaper Model Y by a quarter. Now maybe that means they can build up a stockpile and then when every other Ev loses their $7,500 incentive, Tesla is sitting there with by far the cheapest EV new and ready to be sold… but new product takes time to rollout and the other thing is they will be manufactured on the same lines as current model Ys. So really maybe they choose not to even create the stockpile because they usually only have 20-30 days of inventory. So really you should expect every Model 3/Y manufactured over next 2 months to be sold by end of EV credit. Manufacturing the cheaper version now would actually cost them money…
I’d expect Q3 deliveries and auto gross margins to be high, then Q4 and Q1 likely to be low. Plus the energy deliveries will likely slow growth for another quarter or two because their Lathrop plant is maxed out and Shanghai is just beginning to ramp (for their mega packs).
Literally all that matters for Tesla at this point that makes it a buy or sell is If you believe they will win Autonomy. If you think they do the stock has another double in it. Super long term if you think they will win in Robots it’s, it’s got another doubling…