Tesla Hong Kong Event

Mr owners in the crowd tonight is that right yes all right great uh thank you thanks for your long time support of Tesla and also some Model S owners thank you for your support Hong Kong one of the fastest expanding markets uh for Tesla worldwide so I'm John McNeal the president of worldwide sales and I know that you came here to see uh Elon Musk so let me without any further delay about this month hey welcome everybody so thanks for coming um and uh I know this number of long-time pairs of supporters in the card so thanks for your face from the beginning um you know from Roadster Model S and everything and um so it's going to tell you about uh what our plans are in in Hong Kong and um uh and yeah it's we got big plans so uh as as I think you may know

the the goal of Tesla is to accelerate the Advent of sustainable transport so to do whatever we can to uh to have the have a sustainable future happen sooner rather than later so uh we started off with the Roadster back in 2008 it's a low volume obviously high price now with the model S and X which are mid price mid volume and then in about two years we expect to have the model 3 which is a lower price higher volume car so that the overarching goal though is just to accelerate the Advent of sustainable transport and uh you know and to help other companies do that as well which is why we open source our patents last year [Music] we tried very hard to make an electric car be the best car it was really important because the previously people had the idea

of electric cars being like a golf cart like something that was slow and ugly and low range we had to show that electric car could actually be the best car that could be fast it could be a great have great handling look good have long range this was very important to break them all to get rid of the idea that an electric car is not a good car and the results were quite quite good 98 of owners would buy the model S again there were one car of the year and the consumer report said it was the best car that they've ever tested the um [Applause] so we start off with with safety and achieving five stars across the board the model S this still has the highest safety rating of any car ever tested it's a very well in that front we have a longer crumple Zone than

any car in any gasoline car because there's no engine in the front a very rigid cabin and a low center of gravity because of the battery pack being in the floor pattern and then it's also all-wheel drive it can make it to 100 kilometers in 103 seconds it has a range of almost 500 kilometers so these were really really important characteristics to achieve in an electric car to show that electric car could be a real substitute for a gasoline car and then with over there updates the car keeps improving over time so instead of buying a car and having the software be static and unchanging that this would actually improve over time then with autopilot which come on [Music] we haven't meeting with the government tomorrow hopefully [Applause] well um we're gonna

have some conversations and hopefully they will consider allowing us to release autopilities um so anyway but i'm cautiously optimistic that it'll be a good good meetings tomorrow um anyway this is going to keep getting better over time with the software updates and and we'll take it as far as the sensor Suite will allow so I think which is actually pretty far and that's combining the the camera the radar the sonar and GPS it's with maybe showing like some of the key statistics in in 2004 Tesla was just five people and now we're almost 15 000.

and five years ago we're making about 600 cars a year and now it's 50 000 cars a year so it's it's good progress I think um and uh and and as part of the fact that we were saved over 150 million liters of gasoline [Applause] [Music] so it is where we are in Greater China the we have 15 stores and in seven major cities uh several hundred superchargers um and even more destination charges and we're opening up in Macau towards the end of this year um I actually think um Hong Kong will probably be the leading study in the world for electric cars wow [Applause] um and um and yeah so I think it's going to be really um a Leading Light uh because uh I I think it'll actually have more EVS per capita than any any other uh City uh which means we'll Pioneer figuring

out how to do charging um how to handle the large number of electric cars on the grid one of these issues which will then be a good example for the rest of the world yeah I think Hong Kong's the perfect City for electric vehicles it's that sense of movement that sense of dynamism the Hong Kong people they want to go everywhere fast [Music] Tesla's really taken off me it just they make sense [Music] the number of Tesla is on the street I'm seeing are just you know that bowl triple now you see easily dozen Teslas on the roads every single day [Music] when I test drove it I just couldn't stop thinking about the car afterwards It's a combination of the practicality of it the performance all the cut connection technology inside the vehicle we've got a five-person

family every day I feel comfortable abstract and safe is coming cars on today if not the safest [Music] the moment you put your thought on the paddle is off a very good sports car Tesla has installed superchargers in Union locations so people can charge while they're out shopping I love it when you have this you know Tesla only sign you don't have to worry about running out of battery [Music] convert 100 to electric transportation we do want to reduce the carbon footprint especially here in Hong Kong we need to preserve the air quality and really where electric car that roadside pollution driving a Tesla and it's entirely quiet and there's just no emissions it's so smooth they're so quiet you're almost in this your own little bubble when you're inside

the car amidst all this noise around [Music] [Applause] thanks to the customers that were part of the video um 2016 coming up uh the second half the year we've got model X so that'll be coming to Hong Kong I've got a huge new service center that we're building so it should help reduce some of the service time challenges and they're also expanding the the charge networks substantially um but it's always important to remember that this is just the beginning as uh over 90 million new cars and trucks produced every year and less than 0.

2 percent are electric vehicles so there's still a huge um huge way to go to transition um the world to sustainable energy so um I think that's that's something with with bearing in mind it's really just the very beginning so um but I we do expect that Hong Kong will be the leader of any city in the world for sustainable transport all right um that's the introductory remarks I'm going to answer a few questions you know that like uh Tesla is a huge success in Hong Kong but however like most of our car owners cannot install their own charges and we don't have a very good public charging infrastructure the pace of the super trading Network expansion cannot keep up with the growth system will become the an obstacle course in Hong Kong so how do you think

you can also become this challenge thank you sure what so that's a great point so in my meetings tomorrow with the government I'm actually going to be discussing this exact subject we want to try to upgrade uh some of the the public charging stations to higher power and and make them available to other part companies as well but we really want to work with the government and offer our technology for upgrading the public charging spots because my understanding is that there's maybe as many as 800 or even a thousand public charging spots but they're low power so we're better I think the right solution is to upgrade them to higher power and also to have the regulations the building regulations um ideally require that if somebody requests charging and they're

building you've got the this obligation to provide it because in the long run the best way to charge your car is to charge at the same place you charge your phone um if you have to go to a third third location that's generally undesirable most convenient is where your phone is charged that's where your car should be charged except for long distance driving of course but that's that's the basic idea so regulatory changes and then and then providing whatever technology and support that we can have from a Tesla standpoint to the government to upgrade the public charging state um firstly before my question I'd just like to say in the last five years we've had George okay we've had Jerome come and but today's really special thank you so much well thank you

for supporting president so um as well as the Roadster Model S I've got a model X on reservation so of course the question is what is the plan for right hand drive model X and when are we going to see it um well the plan is to vote for X's is we should be selling production of those around the middle of this year so hopefully this summer is when we should be delivering the right hand drive axes hello I'm sorry it's always hard to stop by the sign all right I'm here with charged Hong Kong which is Hong Kong's charity represent EVS again thank you for coming specific question about autopilot one of the most successful campaigns online for in the last couple of years was for Blendtec I don't know if you saw that one can you blend it there's simple demonstrations

of the technology I've been sort of waiting with basic breath to see uh Cascade of good news about autopilot and the situations that saved and all we've seen has been the disaster movies is there something to share or because for every bad news we need five times more good news to balance it psychologically is there anything that Tesla could be sharing well I mean there is there are a lot of um sort of interventions that occur that we're aware of but we we haven't really asked customers if we could share their share their information um I'm sure many of them would agree actually it's a good point you know we can we don't want to put any pressure like no pressure If you want to share it um yeah maybe that if we can sort of ask people in kind of a really

low pressure way each of us I think has had us all repeat playback for at least a week yeah and there are many I mean there are thousands more so that's a good idea maybe we should just ask that's the point I mean whether there were case studies or if you could do aggregated statistics and I'm sure I for one would volunteer if I was ever saved by my models actually the statistics bring something out that I think is um brand in a statistical way maybe the right move and I've just actually recently saw um a um just a histogram of of for example the lane position for autopilot versus non-order pilot and the the probability of distribution is much tighter if you're if you're an autopilot then then for if it's manual driving um it's actually remarkable how

much people bury in their Lane if it's manual driving um quite a lot actually um so it's I think maybe releasing that would be a good idea just to show like look it's it's actually a tighter approach position Distribution on autopilot than not autopilot but what I can share on the record is in the few short weeks that we had autopilot I was arriving much more refreshed yeah it is it I mean like the reason we called water apart was to have people think of it in the same way that people think of an air an airplane autopilot which is not to say that the pilot can abdicate responsibility or go to sleep um that would be concerning um but but uh but rather that it's a workload reduction um so just it it um it eventually makes you makes it easier to fly the

plane and and to drive the car with the orders to your function Plus on a personal note I did complete the police class one driving test back for safety and and I can absolutely say that it requires much less concentration and I'm much more aware of the situation around me I'm much less stressed by traffic jams and so on so I want it back we're doing our best all right I'll take one more question then hand it over to John okay we're right sure I really want to go okay sure um just to repeat the comments the preface was you have an uncle in Australia a father-in-law sorry in Australia yeah and it likes that you said yeah okay so he he loves using autopilot in Australia yeah and so he um it wasn't all the things the autopilot is a better driver than he

is so that's that's a good compliment and the question was um with respect to apps will we um when we'll be able to download apps and whatnot into the Model S [Music] um you know and as we've sort of thought about it more the logical thing to do from an app standpoint is to maybe allow apps on your iPhone or Android to project onto the center display as opposed to trying to create a new app ecosystem so that's that's probably going to be our Focus uh in the future is is enable you to project apps from your phone onto the center screen that's the it seems like logical move um all right well once again thanks everyone for coming and I hope you have a great night [Applause]