Tesla Impact Report 2024

Our Mission: Accelerating the World's Transition to Sustainable Energy

Tesla's core mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. This is achieved by creating products that are not only sustainable but also affordable, safe, and fun to use. The company focuses on reducing emissions and maximizing safety across its entire value chain, from manufacturing to end-of-life product management.

Tesla's product ecosystem includes electric vehicles (EVs), energy generation, and energy storage solutions. The company is committed to making these products accessible to everyone, aiming to create a world where sustainable, safe, and reliable transport and energy are available to all.

Creating a Safer, Cleaner, More Enjoyable World

Tesla's zero direct-emission products significantly reduce climate-warming carbon and fine particulate pollution. By developing autonomous technology, Tesla aims to save lives, time, and money, making roads safer for drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. The Optimus humanoid robot is designed to automate repetitive and unsafe tasks, freeing up people's time for more impactful activities.

Minimizing Emissions and Maximizing Safety

Tesla manufactures a fully integrated ecosystem of products that address energy generation, storage, and transportation. These products are designed for autonomous operation and work together to maximize impact. The company strives to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across its product lifecycles, including supply chain, manufacturing, use, and end-of-life.

Key Achievements:

• Supercharger network powered by 100% renewables for four years.
• Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg powered by 100% renewable electricity for two years.
• Tesla vehicles avoid an average of 35 metric tons of CO2e on the road after 17 years (52 metric tons in the U.S.).
• Vehicle fires are eight times less likely for Tesla vehicles than the U.S. average.
• Autopilot technology is nearly 10-times safer than a human driver.

Electrifying Industrial Transport

Tesla's Semi truck is poised to electrify industrial transport, addressing a critical sector for emissions reduction. While industrial transport vehicles constitute only 1% of the U.S. vehicle fleet, they contribute 16% of all U.S. emissions. The ramp-up of Semi production in late 2025 aims to tackle these emissions.

Making Buying and Owning a Car Easy

Tesla has redesigned the purchasing experience to be seamless and transparent, offering direct-to-customer sales and proprietary technology for financing and insurance. The Tesla app facilitates charging, service, and upgrades, ensuring a convenient ownership experience.

Products Get Better Over Time:

• Over 250 new or updated features deployed globally in 2024 via over-the-air (OTA) software updates.
• 99% of recalls reported in 2024 resolved through OTA updates.

Supercharger Network Reliability

Tesla's Supercharger network demonstrates high uptime, with 99.95% average uptime in 2024 and 99.97% in 2023, ensuring drivers have the freedom to go anywhere.

Exceeding Safety Standards

Tesla vehicles consistently exceed safety standards across four continents, receiving top ratings from organizations like NHTSA, IIHS, Euro NCAP, and ANCAP for occupant safety, pedestrian safety, and active safety features.

Autopilot Technology

Autopilot technology, including active safety features, Autopilot, and Full Self-Driving (Supervised), has achieved a safety record nearly 10-times higher than the U.S. national average. Tesla aims to further enhance this with unsupervised autonomy features planned for launch in 2025.

Miles Driven per One Accident (2024):

• Tesla Vehicles With Autopilot Technology Engaged: 6.77M
• Tesla Vehicles Without Autopilot Technology Engaged: 1.18M
• Total U.S. National Average: 0.70M

Robotaxi Network

The Robotaxi network, powered by Autopilot technology, is expected to be significantly safer than human drivers, further accelerating Tesla's mission by lowering emissions and increasing the accessibility of sustainable transportation. Cybercab robotaxis are projected to emit about half the emissions of Model 3/Y and 85% less than average ICE vehicles.

Affordable Transport

Tesla vehicles offer a total cost of ownership comparable to mass-market vehicles, with lower maintenance costs and more affordable fueling through electricity. The cost of electricity to power a Model Y is up to three times less than the cost of gas for a comparable ICE vehicle.

Total Cost of Ownership ($ per Mile) - 5 Years and 60,000 Miles:

• Model Y RWD: $0.74
• BMW X3: $1.19
• Toyota RAV4: $0.76
• Honda CR-V: $0.74

Autonomy for Time Savings

Autonomy extends to both transport and the home/factory. By automating commuting and chores, Tesla's technology aims to give people more time back to focus on fulfilling or impactful activities.

Making Clean Energy Reliable and Affordable

Tesla offers a full ecosystem of energy products, including hardware, software, and services for generation and storage. Products like Powerwall provide backup power, reduce emissions, and contribute to Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) that help stabilize the grid and avoid blackouts.

Megapack for Grid Stability

Megapack, Tesla's grid-scale battery storage solution, enhances grid capacity and stability. When paired with solar PV, Megapack offers a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuel power plants, with favorable long-term economics due to lower maintenance, no fuel expenses, and longer lifespans.

Grid Stability in Action:

• Tesla VPPs delivered 2.8 GWh of energy in 2024, supported by over 100,000 Powerwall units.
• Megapack sites in Australia provided grid stability and avoided blackouts.
• Megapacks on Oahu supported the retirement of Hawaii's last coal plant, reducing renewable energy curtailment by 69%.

Our People & Production

Tesla is committed to manufacturing products sustainably and safely while creating opportunities for employees to thrive. The company works with suppliers and employees to ensure products are built sustainably and safely, minimizing resource use, waste, and emissions.

Efficient Factories

Tesla designs factories to limit waste, water usage, and energy consumption, sourcing renewables where possible. Key highlights include:

• 50% year-over-year natural gas savings at Gigafactory Texas through scrap metal recycling.
• 100% of waste diverted from disposal at Gigafactory Shanghai in 2024.
• 1 GW of wind and solar energy secured across North America and Europe since 2023.

Preparing the Workforce for a Sustainable Future

As of 2024, Tesla has created over 125,000 clean energy-related jobs globally. The company invests in educational programming and trades training to inspire and prepare the next generation for careers in clean energy and manufacturing.

Key Highlights (2024):

• 4.65M applications received.
• 76% of leadership promoted internally.

Tesla offers various programs to inspire young people and create career pathways, including internships, apprenticeships, and specialized training programs.

Workplace Environment

Tesla aims to create a workplace where employees feel respected, satisfied, and appreciated, with policies promoting fairness and respect. Employees are hired, evaluated, and promoted based on skills and performance, supported by comprehensive benefits.

Ensuring Safest Operations for Employees

Tesla actively engages employees to identify safety risks, focusing on doing the basics right, engaging stakeholders, and reducing risk. This has led to a decrease in the work-related injury rate.

• Safety Improvement Suggestions by Employees Are Increasing: 731,500 in 2024.
• Global Work-Related Injury Rate Is Decreasing (ASTM): 2.28 in 2024.

Achieving Mission Through Sourcing

Tesla works to make its supply chain more sustainable, using its purchasing power to mitigate adverse impacts. The company collaborates with suppliers to reduce environmental and social impacts, particularly in critical material sourcing areas.

• 77% of battery materials suppliers have set a net-zero or carbon-neutral goal.
• Tesla is the first EV manufacturer to launch a program to reduce the environmental impacts of nickel production in Indonesia.

Sustainable Economy Requires Less Mining

A fully electrified and sustainable economy could avoid extracting 18 gigatons of fossil fuels annually. Transitioning to such an economy would require only three gigatons of battery material mining per year, a significant reduction from fossil fuel extraction. Battery materials are recyclable, further reducing the need for new mining over time.

Respecting Human Rights

Respecting human rights throughout the supply chain is a top priority. Tesla treats supply chain workers with the same respect as its own employees and diligently works to uphold the right to freely chosen employment. In 2024, increased resources were invested to combat forced and child labor.

Closing the Loop with End-of-Life Recycling

Tesla is dedicated to establishing a circular value chain for its clean energy products. Recovered battery inputs like nickel, cobalt, copper, and lithium can be reused to build new products. In 2024, Tesla processed enough battery material to manufacture the equivalent of around 21,000 Model Y RWD vehicles.

Battery Recycling Key Achievements (2024):

• 5.3 GWh of battery materials sent to recycling partners (enough for 64,000+ Model Y vehicles).
• 1.7 GWh of battery materials processed at Tesla's facility (equivalent to 21,000 Model Y vehicles).
• 590 MT per month battery recycling throughput at Gigafactory Nevada.

Our Future is Sustainable

Tesla is building an autonomous world powered by solar energy, run on batteries, and transported by electric vehicles.

Learn more at Tesla.com/Impact.