Musk claims that Tesla has the safest car in the world and the factory with the lowest proportion of injuries

On May 17th, at 4am in Beijing, Tesla's 2023 shareholder meeting was held as scheduled at a super factory in Texas, USA. At the meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk emphasized the safety of Tesla vehicles and factories, and stated that the ModelY will undoubtedly become the world's best-selling model this year

On May 17th, at 4am in Beijing, Tesla's 2023 shareholder meeting was held as scheduled at a super factory in Texas, USA. At the meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk emphasized the safety of Tesla vehicles and factories, and stated that the ModelY will undoubtedly become the world's best-selling model this year. "We have great confidence in this," he said.

In fact, the ModelY has already topped the best-selling model list in Europe in the first quarter and is also the best-selling non pickup truck in the United States in the first quarter.

Looking at the Chinese market, the ModelY is also the best-selling passenger car in multiple months. According to the latest statement from the China Passenger Car Association in April, Tesla's Shanghai Super Factory delivered 75842 vehicles, surpassing Mercedes Benz, BMW, and Audi, and firmly holding the championship in domestic luxury brand delivery. Meanwhile, ModelY ranks first in the delivery volume of the entire vehicle market with a market performance of 49059 vehicles; The Model 3 delivered 26783 vehicles, ranking among the top ten overall vehicle deliveries.

In addition to selling well, Musk also pointed out that Tesla is the safest car in the world. We continuously improve the automatic emergency braking system through simple software updates. In addition, we also improve the arrangement of airbags through software updates. For example, when an accident occurs, we analyze the accident. "Musk introduced that Tesla is spared no effort in improving vehicle safety.

This improvement is even reflected in some little-known small details, such as: many people are not aware that Tesla actually has a car overheating protection function.

In Tesla's history, no child or pet has ever died from overheating in a Tesla car. We can ensure that the cabin temperature never reaches lethal levels. I think this configuration is of great significance, "Musk believes

According to official data, ModelY and ModelS scored 98% in terms of active safety in the European Crash Test (E-NCAP). Musk emphasized, "We will definitely win back the lost 2%.

Musk also mentioned that despite a significant increase in Tesla's electric vehicle production, the greenhouse gas emissions per vehicle manufactured have decreased by 30%, water usage has decreased by 15%, and Tesla's factories are also becoming safer - "We tracked everyone's injuries, and we believe Tesla's factories have the lowest per capita injury rate in the industry

In addition, before the opening ceremony, Courtney Wicks, executive director of representing investor advocates for social justice, proposed to Tesla's directors to ask them to pay attention to whether there is child labor in Tesla's supply chain. According to it, most of the cobalt required for global electric vehicle batteries is found in supply chain production enterprises where child labor is employed for mining operations.

Regarding this, Musk stated that there are no illegal situations such as child labor among Tesla's cobalt suppliers and continues to monitor Tesla's cobalt supply through third-party audits. Tesla also plans to install cameras in the mine and work with shareholders to oversee related issues. Meanwhile, Musk mentioned that although the proportion of cobalt in Tesla's batteries is very small, it is still necessary to eliminate the "purity" of raw materials during the mining process. We are a company that insists on doing the right thing, and we don't want to deceive ourselves, "Musk said.

Attachment: At the event site, Elon Muskin's sentence.

1. The proposal of the third chapter of the secret grand plan aims to point out a path for humanity towards fully sustainable energy. We are accelerating on this road and arriving at our destination is just around the corner.

2. In leading the global economy onto a sustainable development path, the industry needs to increase the annual installation of solar and wind energy by three times, the annual production of batteries by 29 times, and the annual production of electric vehicles by 11 times.

3. With the passage of time, the production cost and carbon dioxide emissions of electric vehicles are rapidly decreasing. We will find that electric vehicles are cheaper and more environmentally friendly than gasoline powered vehicles.

4. Tesla aims to make factory production safer, and we track the health status of each employee. In terms of factory safety, Tesla is the best or lowest per capita injury rate company in the industry.

5. In 2022, we received 3.6 million job applications worldwide, and Tesla and SpaceX once again became the two most popular companies for engineers on Earth. Ultimately, the competitiveness of any company depends on whether the most talented people are interested in working here, and Tesla has such an outstanding team.

6. Tesla is the world's largest electric vehicle manufacturer and also the most profitable among all car manufacturers in the world, making it difficult to achieve this. Many of our competitors suffered huge losses in the production of electric vehicles, but we did not.

7. Tesla's vehicles have been rated as the safest. We have made tremendous efforts in vehicle safety by continuously improving our active safety capabilities through software and updating the layout of hardware such as airbags to continuously enhance vehicle safety.

8. We have many little-known feature points. For example, the overheat protection function in the car compartment has never caused a child or pet to die in Tesla's history due to overheating.

9. In 2022, Tesla car owners achieved 13.4 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions reduction. When producing and manufacturing each vehicle, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 30% year-on-year and water consumption decreased by 15% year-on-year.

10. Tesla will change its 100 year history of using a 12V low-voltage architecture in cars, adopting a 48V low-voltage architecture that requires only 1/4 of the copper content of a 12V low-voltage architecture.

11. At present, the normal usage time of a car is approximately 10 to 12 hours per week. After achieving fully autonomous driving, the vehicle utilization rate will increase by five times and the value of use will significantly increase.

12. FSD (fully autonomous driving capability) will be 10 times safer than human driving, and it is better and safer than human drivers.

13. In addition to production and delivery software, insurance and finance software, supply chain and logistics software, data center and infrastructure, and internal analysis software are all written and produced by Tesla's internal team, which is very strong.