11/11/2022
Tesla drivers will be able to make Zoom calls from their car
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Tesla drivers will be able to make Zoom calls from their car
mhm. Two great outfit. Hey? Yes. Right. Um, yeah. Uh, well, everyone welcome to the Tesla design studio where we’ve held many part time buildings before. Uh, I hope you guys will have *** really great time tonight. Uh, I think I’ve never seen so many cameras in my entire life. This is the cameras everywhere. Um, so, we’re gonna start off by just talking about, about how did we get here? You know, what, one of the things that have led to this day? Uh, what are the cars like? How did Tessa start out? How did we, Yeah, where were we? 10, 11 years ago? What has happened over that intervening time? Um, because it occurred to me that *** lot of people, they only heard about Tesla maybe *** year or two ago. And, you know, electric cars are kind of taken for granted, but there was *** time when electric cars seemed very stupid. Um, and it wasn’t that long ago. And the, the idea of creating *** car company was stupid, of course. Um, and then making an electric car company was like, stupidity squared. And so let’s, let’s take *** look at the first car we ever made that has the Roadster. All right. It’s *** bit small. Um, It’s great. It’s great. Um, so, so the crazy thing is, uh, if you, if you go back 11 years today, Tesla had made one car, that car, That’s serial number one of, of Tesla. So, that’s my car actually. Um, so, yeah, So on February 2008, we’d literally only made one car that car. Um, it didn’t really work very well. I have to say it broke down *** lot. Um, and it took us another three months just to make the second car. And now, uh, we’ve made about 550,000 cars. And after the Roadster, uh, essentially what happened with the Roadster is we said, okay, we want to make *** car, we want to really break the mold about, you know, how do people think about electric cars? To think about electric cars being slow and ugly and poor performance? So, we want to have *** sports car, you know, *** car that is fast, looks good, uh, s*xy. That’s right. Ha you took the words out of my mouth. Um, so, exactly. Uh, Sexier. That’s right. So, the Roadster, we weren’t the reason we did sports cars. We want to create *** car that would break the mold for electric vehicles. Um, and that, that would be s*xy and fast and long range. And that’s, that’s why we did the Roadster. Um, and, uh, people, people say that you won’t be able to make the, you won’t be able to make *** car with those specifications. And if you do, nobody will buy it. So, we have to prove those two things wrong. And then after we made the Roadster, they said, okay, sure, you can make some toy sports car, but you can’t make *** sedan. You can’t, there’s no way you could compete with the, uh, the luxury sedans of that our gasoline, because they’re the best. Um, and there’s no way you can make an electric car that’s like that. So we did model? S noisy, exactly, so noisy. Where all the fumes? Where’s the exhaust pipe? Where do you put the gasoline? Yeah, So we actually started designing that car in the Rocket Factory. So we didn’t have *** design studio. Um, we took *** little corner of the Rocket Factory and, and, and friends joined and we were just, uh, with *** tiny crew in *** corner of the Rocket Factory. We designed that car. Um, and I think this, that, that car is really important because it was competing against the best of the gasoline cars. So if you compete again, if you can make an electric car that can, that can be the best the gasoline cars. That’s just ***, it’s *** very powerful statement. Um, to prove that you can go electric. So then working on the, from the model s, uh, which, by the way, um, in terms of where the name comes from, actually, I like calling things what they are. So, Roadster is called Roadster because it’s *** Roadster, there is no, there is no good word for Sudan. So we couldn’t call it the Sudan doing work or saloon, there’s just like literally no word. So the model? S stands for Sudan and is how out of touch I was, I actually didn’t realize at the time that model? S also means models. And then I had like *** one point of *** license plate that said model S too because it was like the second production model S it was like that and as I was walking away from my car said, what *** jerk his license plate says models too. Yeah. Like okay better not have that license plate. So um but then going from the from the model s it was like okay, we want to make the best Suv in the world, we want to do something. We kind of carried away actually with the with the model X. Um we were like let’s let’s have practically every every technology and whiz bang thing we could possibly think of. Um and uh the model X. Is like as *** car, it’s like *** faberge egg meets *** spaceship. It’s like um it was insanely difficult. Um but it but it is it is an amazing vehicle. Let’s bring it out. Cool. Yeah, you can see *** certain position forming maybe so the model X. Um like yeah, like I said, it really feels like *** faberge egg spaceship. Um and it’s it’s it’s X. For crossover Suv. But then after we have the model S and Model X. I thought it’d be pretty funny if if we had the model e um uh and then and then but then like ford threatened to sue us uh ford killed s*x but I said what if we call it the model three because that’s completely different from me. I said that’s fine. So with the Model three Let’s bring up Model three. Hm. Nice. That’s right. Exactly. Exactly smart. Someone with *** person. So we made the original road stuff. The model s the model X the model three. And then we also uh then made the new new generation Roadster which will bring in. Sweet. Sure. So yeah here we have the original Roadster, The new Roadster. Yeah. Yeah. And then hey, what’s going on? And then the semi the actually the T. S. *** semi drove here nonstop all the way from the bay area. So that is *** semi 500 mile range electric semi. I learned to actually only after naming the thing that semi has 22 meetings. Um Semi s*xy. Yeah. So um yes we’re really excited about bringing those products to market. Um and uh so that’s sort of talking about our products. But then the factories are as much are as much the product if not more than than the the vehicles themselves. In fact, I really think like the difficulty and value of manufacturing is underappreciated. It’s insanely difficult. It’s like relatively easy to make *** prototype and extremely difficult to mass manufacture that prototype to mass manufacture vehicle Reliably on and its scale. Um Even for rockets, I’d say it’s probably *** factor of 10, harder to design the manufacturing system for *** rocket then design the rocket and for for cars, I’d say it’s, it’s maybe 100 times harder to design the manufacturing system than to design the vehicle itself. Um, so, uh, that’s what I don’t mean to have it in black and white. It’s like, it’s not so long ago, they didn’t even have color cameras back then, It’s 2010. Um, but it was very bleak. It’s like essentially the, the, you know, when we acquired the fremont factory, which used to be called New Me, uh, people sort of thought, oh, you’ve got *** car factory now, if you have *** car, they sort of think if you have *** car factory, you can just make any any car. It’s like, no, that’s like saying you’ve got *** box, uh, that box can have anything you want in it. No, only if you make the thing in the box. Um, so although we did get the, we had ***, um, get *** very good deal on the new me factory, uh, two and General Motors actually took all of the good equipment out. Um, and anything that that had, that was like, so useless, it wasn’t even worth the scrap was left that. So, it literally looked like that, but in color. Um, um, and it took an enormous amount of effort by *** very talented team to actually turn, essentially what looked like *** derelict warehouse into *** working working car factory. Yeah, so, And in fact, like today, the Fremont factory, which is an enormous building. I think it’s like the second or third biggest building in the world back footprint is so dense, so densely packed with, with people and robots. But this picture is like robots, but there’s 20,000 people that work in the Fremont factory across four or five shifts. So it’s, it’s really *** massive amount of people, um, and robots. So it’s, it’s like this giant cybernetic collective. Um, so that was, that was way harder than making the car by far. Um, and it’s worth noting like the, the last time, at least in the US, the last time any car company achieved mass manufacturing was about 100 years ago. That is the last time. And then, and then Tesla, it’s literally that crazy. So like the, the issue is definitely not coming up with *** car design, It is absolutely all about building the production system. Um, you want to have *** good product to build, but that’s, that’s basically the easy part. Um, then then the factory is the hard part, then then the challenge is like, okay, if we, if we create *** car factory where the heck of the batteries and electric motors and power electronics is gonna come from. Um, and, and that’s where we need to say, okay, we better build something that’s capable of 50 gigawatt hours at least of, of cell output, which at the time when we proposed the gigafactory, I believe, like total global output for of of of of lithium ion batteries for all purposes, phones, laptops, you know, cars, anything was about 30 gigawatt hours, So we’re like Okay, we’ll just do the basic math, we need something that we need 50 gigawatt hours, so um we better have *** real big factory um or there’s no way so um and we’re gonna build it in California, but like it would have taken interior just to get the permits. Um So we built the gigafactory an amount of time it would it would have taken to get the permits in California. Um that’s what the gigafactory looked like In 2010, it was basically rocks and bushes. Okay, and now this is what it looks like now. Mhm. Good. Yeah, so and and it’s only about *** third complete. So this one complete, I think it’s about four or five times the size of the pentagon. Um so it’s it’s kind of difficult to appreciate scale but that that although it’s really quite tall, it’s like 70 ft tall. Um so uh the volume of it is just mind blowing. Um it takes two hours just to walk around it. So um you know, again, it’s work *** tremendously talented team working like crazy, like tens of thousands of people to to produce this, this uh this factory um and today it produces more lithium ion than the rest of the world combined. So um now we’re also building *** factory in china, which I’m really excited about. Um, as you can see, it’s the very impressive, very impressive, um, large puddle. Um, so that when, um, when I was there in january, that’s, that’s what it looked like when we did the groundbreaking ceremony and this is what it looks like now three months later, but this is what it will look like at the end of the year. So I think things are, things are moving fast. Um and the, this will actually be um, once it’s complete, the equivalent of our fremont car factory plus our Nevada battery gigafactory combined. Yeah, so it’s integrating the two, which kind of makes sense. Um, So yeah, so we’re really excited about this um, great, great, great team in China and that’s gonna be really important for making um, affordable versions of the Model three and model wife for the greater China market. And then besides, cause we have some other things, so the solar roof and power wall. Uh yeah. Um, so, uh, this is, this is definitely gonna be the year of the solar roof and power wall. Um, the because of like extreme challenges with the model three production, we have to basically allocate all resources to model three production because otherwise we’re gonna die. Uh, and, and so, so basically it was pretty tight, I have to say. Um that was *** hard one. Uh, obviously like, like, like 2018 was probably felt like aging five years in one. Honestly, it was really intense. Um, so thank, thank you for supporting Tesla through this difficult period. Thank you. So right now that model three production is going pretty well. Um, we finally allocate engineering attention to the solar roof as well as the solar retrofit. Um pretty excited about both the solar tile roof and the solar retrofit and uh power wall. Um like part of the reason we can also can make power was we couldn’t make enough sales. So we allocate sells the car or to the power and was like, we gotta make the cars. So then power will get cellstar basically. Um but 2019, so we are now going to ramp it up um and then power pack. So power pack is kinda like our industrial strength uh, battery storage system. Um and we did the uh, the biggest battery storage system in the world in in Australia. Um and yeah, that was, that was really super cool. Um and then we’re doing one that’s roughly uh giggle at our scale in in California. So just in southern California, right near by building *** big wide scale power pack and so expect this to ultimately be uh really critical for transition the world to sustainable energy obviously had to have sustainable energy production and sustainable energy consumption. So the sustainable energy production needs solar panels plus battery because the sun doesn’t shine at night. And then uh those electric cars, electric vehicles in general. Yeah, so, but I mean the really exciting thing is if you have with with solar, solar, solar plus battery plus electric vehicles, we have *** fully sustainable future. This is the future you can feel really excited and optimistic about, I think it really matters. Yeah, and then supercharging. So um You know the first in 2010 we had zero super charges. So there was no, you can’t really drive long distances with an electric car in in 2010. Um so I was like, okay, we better have some some high powered charges, otherwise it’s gonna be extremely inconvenient to drive long distances. Um so uh built into the model s um was high voltage dc bypass directly to the pack, so you can just sort of mainline power right right into the pack. Um and then then nobody was building high high power charges, like, okay, we better build these high powered charges because nobody’s building them. And so we went from zero uh super charges to building *** global network of super charges. Yeah, yeah, so it’s pretty nutty. Each one of those is one of those is *** super charging site. So um Supercharging team tells did an incredible job building *** global network of superchargers that allow you to travel uh to *** massive section of of of of the world basically anywhere in north America, almost anywhere in europe, uh most places in China, not the Gobi desert yet, but most places, um, we’ll cover the Gobi desert, we’ll get there and Saskatchewan, I swear to God, there is. I’ve specifically asked about the Saskatchewan supercharger and I’m told it is, it is under construction. So, um, absolutely, I’ve asked about it like twice, it’s, I’m told it’s gonna be completed soon and then you’ll actually be able to drive across Canada. Um, so yes, um, why Kazakhstan? Actually, we have some great supporters in Kazakhstan, I think we probably, we should have, we will build superchargers in Kazakhstan there, you heard it right here, we’re gonna build *** lot more super charges. Um, and, and we have actually *** version three of the supercharger that we’ve just unveiled and in fact, yeah, the super chargers actually started out only at about 75 kilowatts. Now, they’re at, with version 3, 250 kilowatts, we think probably can even go *** little, *** little higher than that. Um, and so if you’ve got *** long range model three, it’s, it’s capable of charging at about 1000 miles an hour or 1600 kilometers an hour. Yeah, so, and, and we, uh, we have one working in the Bay Area and then the one here at the design studio is also working as of tonight. So, yeah, so, so we’re gonna be rolling out the version three supercharger throughout the world, just gradually upgrading the existing sites as well as adding new sites. Um, so we did, we just slow down the supercharger will add *** little bit because we wanted them to be version three instead of version two. Um, but now that we have version three running and well um, we’re going to spoil our production and so we’re gonna have like *** radical improvement in supercharging worldwide by sometime next year. Yeah, so, so in terms of where we are today, We’ve got obviously the S3 in the X, we’ve made, I think 550,000 vehicles, something like that. Um, the the 12 months from now we will have made about *** million vehicles. So, so It’s pretty wild to think that 11 years ago today we had made literally one car um, and *** year from now we will have made *** million. Yeah, I mean this is ***, this is *** testament to the incredible talent. Uh, and and an effort of the people of Tesla was to say thank you to people of Tesla. You guys are incredible. So four million tons of co two saved. Um, in fact, with the four millionth ton. Uh, it just ticked over like, like an hour ago. So the four million ton just ticked over tonight. Yeah, so, you know, just talking about like, you know, what were the, what, what are the thoughts back back then with some of the comments, let’s say the internet is forever. Um, if this is *** mere like taste, it was like, like I said, it was electric cars were considered extremely impossible and stupid. Uh, and various forms that, you know, you’re *** fraud. Like, okay, you can drive that fraud. Um, okay. Uh, and then now things have changed. Yeah, the goal of Tesla was literally, this is like to what degree, in fact, you know, when we created like, okay, the fundamental historic good of Tesla should be measured by the degree to which we accelerate the advent of sustainable, sustainable energy and transport. Um, and our goal all along has been to try to get the rest of the car industry to, uh, to go electric. We did *** joint venture thing with, uh, with Toyota and with Mercedes. Um, we open sourced our patents, uh, three or four years ago, um, made freely available. Um, and so it’s, it’s extremely rewarding to see that the rest of the industry is going electric. This is great. Great. So, And I was just wondering like if, where will, where will test to be in 10 years? You know, mars exactly. Uh, we will be driving *** Tesla and mars I think we could, I think we actually could. Okay, I will be on Mars in 10 years, I think it will, it will. So after that extended history or history lesson. Uh, what what about the actual, the actual reason you came? Okay, there’s *** missing car. It starts with *** y into the why and that’s why in the middle moving out the model. Y okay all right the model Y yeah so uh like the three it will be extremely safe so that the you may know the military has the lowest probability of injury of any car ever tested by the US government. Um The model y we expect will have *** similar result. Uh five stars in every every every category with the battery pack alone low in the floor. It’s gonna have *** very low center of gravity. So this will it has the functionality of *** of an suv but will it will ride like *** sports car. So this thing will be really tightened corners and we expect it will be the safest midsize suv in the world by far. And it tells that we actually always designed with safety as the number one goal. Um It’s it’s like like people people think okay performance sure but but safety first um This is actually by far the most important thing but it’s also gonna be have incredible performance. So expect to have *** 3.5 seconds 0 to 60. Um Yeah good. Um and very low center of gravity. It’s *** great great handling. Uh It’s testing out at *** 0.23 drag coefficient which is extremely good for an suv. Um And in terms of range, fair miles. Yeah so we expect to have an E. P. *** range of an actual true usable range of 300 miles. So yeah from an interior standpoint it has *** panoramic glass roof and and by the way after I’m done here you guys will be able to come up and check out the car. So it’s like um so it’s gonna have *** panoramic glass roof. It really feels like just like the model three if you’re in the car it just feels like you’re you can see the sky seats seats 7 66 cubic feet. Obviously autopilots and you know all that. Uh And uh as I’ve said publicly we expect to be feature complete with with self driving sometime later this year. Um And then as as we prove out the safety with uh billions of miles and kilometers. Uh we will uh from our standpoint feel it’s like safe enough to not pay attention and then get the regulatory approval sometime thereafter. Um But the cool thing is feature complete. Like it’ll be able to do basically anything um by the end of this year just with just with software upgrades which is pretty cool. So um The basically long range one we expect to be about $47,000. And then sometime in 2021 we’ll have the sort of standard version which will be having $39,000 price point. So yeah Now the seven seats are optional. Yeah. Um During the lift gate. Yes. Okay. Um I mean you never know we might do better than this but it should be at least that’s good. So uh so I think it’s gonna be like really compelling. I’m confident that it’ll be the of any midsize suv it’ll be the one you want. Um And uh yeah I think it’ll probably sell. I think we’ll probably do more model wise than S. X. And three combined, most likely. Yeah. So. Mhm. So there you have the s*xy presentation so all right. Uh So thank you all for coming. Uh Those of you are here and those who are watching. Thank you very much for your support over the years. It’s been uh you know *** hell of *** ride. Um And uh I love you too. I love you too. Um We are bringing s*xy back quite literally. All right thank you.
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Tesla drivers will be able to make Zoom calls from their car
Tesla drivers will soon be able to take a video call directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen dashboard, Zoom announced Tuesday.The video call provider announced on Tuesday during its annual Zoomtopia conference, where it typically teases new features to support remote calls, that its software is coming to Tesla’s built-in infotainment center. In a pre-recorded demo video shown at the event, a Tesla driver is seen taking a Zoom call while recharging her vehicle.After this story initially published, the company told CNN Business the car will need to be parked show video; when the vehicle is in motion, only audio will be enabled. The timing of the launch is still unknown, however.The feature itself is one that Tesla has been mulling for years. In May 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet adding Zoom calls to Tesla vehicles was “definitely a future feature.” In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Musk received a bevvy of tweets that requested Zoom integration; drivers argued it would give them another private space to take calls and make use of the existing driver-facing camera, present in some Teslas, and large display.At the time, a Zoom spokesperson told pop culture website Mashable that adding support for video calls into its infotainment system would not be the safest use case because many people might attempt to use it while driving.Zoom also unveiled at Tuesday’s event other new tools, including the integration of email and calendar services directly into the service, a conversational AI and chatbot that helps troubleshoot issues, and support for developers to monetize their apps on Zoom’s App Marketplace.The Zoom news comes as Tesla faces growing competition in the electric vehicle market from established automakers such as Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors. Some investors have expressed concerns that Musk will be too distracted by his purchase of Twitter to give enough attention to addressing Tesla’s problems.This week, Musk continued to sell Tesla stock for a total that now nears $4 billion since he acquired Twitter. Tesla shares have lost 46% of their value so far this year on disappointing sales caused by supply chain problems.Musk’s companies haven’t always had a strong relationship with Zoom. SpaceX, for example, banned its employees from using Zoom in April 2020 over “significant privacy and security concerns.”
Tesla drivers will soon be able to take a video call directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen dashboard, Zoom announced Tuesday.
The video call provider announced on Tuesday during its annual Zoomtopia conference, where it typically teases new features to support remote calls, that its software is coming to Tesla’s built-in infotainment center. In a pre-recorded demo video shown at the event, a Tesla driver is seen taking a Zoom call while recharging her vehicle.
After this story initially published, the company told CNN Business the car will need to be parked show video; when the vehicle is in motion, only audio will be enabled. The timing of the launch is still unknown, however.
The feature itself is one that Tesla has been mulling for years. In May 2020, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet adding Zoom calls to Tesla vehicles was “definitely a future feature.” In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Musk received a bevvy of tweets that requested Zoom integration; drivers argued it would give them another private space to take calls and make use of the existing driver-facing camera, present in some Teslas, and large display.
At the time, a Zoom spokesperson told pop culture website Mashable that adding support for video calls into its infotainment system would not be the safest use case because many people might attempt to use it while driving.
Zoom also unveiled at Tuesday’s event other new tools, including the integration of email and calendar services directly into the service, a conversational AI and chatbot that helps troubleshoot issues, and support for developers to monetize their apps on Zoom’s App Marketplace.
The Zoom news comes as Tesla faces growing competition in the electric vehicle market from established automakers such as Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors. Some investors have expressed concerns that Musk will be too distracted by his purchase of Twitter to give enough attention to addressing Tesla’s problems.
This week, Musk continued to sell Tesla stock for a total that now nears $4 billion since he acquired Twitter. Tesla shares have lost 46% of their value so far this year on disappointing sales caused by supply chain problems.
Musk’s companies haven’t always had a strong relationship with Zoom. SpaceX, for example, banned its employees from using Zoom in April 2020 over “significant privacy and security concerns.”
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