This 3-sentence summary provides the key details about the document: JB Straubel, CTO of Tesla, presented at the HIVE conference on September 28, 2016 about how Tesla has disrupted the automotive industry through technological innovation and collaboration. He discussed Tesla's history and milestones, their focus on electric vehicles and battery technology, and their vision for the future of sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure. The presentation provided insights into Tesla's approach to product development and goals to accelerate the world's transition to renewable energy.

1. INSPIRED
PROCESS
Course Number: HIVE107
Course Date: 9/28/16
Provider Number: k029

2. Best Practice
Hanley Wood, an AIA approved provider, will report credits earned by course attendees to AIA CES for
the approved course numbers HIVE101-107. If a certificate was requested, it will be emailed to you with
all other courses completed by course attendees upon the conclusion of the conference.
If you would like to receive credit for this course, please be sure to provide your name and AIA number
on the form right outside the room.
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3. Course Description
JB Straubel, CTO at Tesla, presents how Tesla has been able to spur technological innovation and
enforce collaboration to make a wildly successful product, and in so doing, disrupt the automotive
industry. This session will help architects and builders identify useful tools that can help disrupt the
business model in the design and construction industry, and in so doing, deliver a better-designed
product to the people who live in their communities.
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4. Learning Objectives
1.Understand key insights on how to disrupt the design process to allow for a more creative and out-of-
the-box approach to design commissions.
2.Describe ways to engage the broader community—either designer colleagues or community
organizations—to support new approaches to design.
3.Implement new methods to incorporate a new, disrupted design process on a small scale into larger
projects for larger clients.
4.Understand how new energy-efficient technologies can be used to bring sustainable innovation to
residential design projects.
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5. Tesla Motors
JB Straubel – co-founder, CTO
HIVE Conference
Sept 28th 2016
Tesla Innovation and
Disruption

6. Tomorrow’s Infrastructure

11. Tesla’s Mission:
Accelerate the world’s transition to
sustainable transportation and energy

13. Breaking the Rules in 2004:
Performance (?) Electric Cars

14. First Roadster Prototype - 2005

15. Tesla History & Milestones
Headquarters Palo Alto, CA Tesla Factory Fremont, CA
Gigafactory Sparks, NVDesign Studio Hawthorne, CA
Tesla Energy launch
Model X launch
2003
2008
2012
2015
Tesla founded
5 employees
Roadster introduced
Model S sales begin
2016 Model 3 unveil
SolarCity Acquisition

16. Tesla Roadster
GM EV1
VolumetricEnergyDensity[Wh/l]
600
500
400
300
200
1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Year
2010 2015 2020
700
Battery Energy Density Trend
800

17. Tesla
Roadster
Industry First Lithium-Ion EV Powertrain
Controls
and
Software
53 kWh Lithium-
Ion Battery Pack
250hp AC Induction
Motor and Gearbox
Power Electronics
Module (DC-AC
Inverter, Charger)
Lithium-Ion Technology
 “Can’t work in a car”
 “Will never be safe”
 “Only for laptops”

18. Tesla OEM Partnerships
Curiosity to Competitor

19. 1356 vehicles produced
through 2010

20. Model S: Ground-Up Design as EV Only
90kWh Battery
Pack
 No rule book
 1st new car from a
new company
 “They will fail”
 “They don’t know
how hard it is”

21. Tesla Model S
 Quickest production car in the world
 Highest safety rating in America
 Available All-Wheel Drive
 Zero to 60 mph in as little as 2.5 seconds (P100DL)
 Up to 315 miles range (EPA)
“Breaks the rating system”
“103 out of 100 points”

22. Tesla Model X
• 7 people plus gear
• 289 miles max range (EPA)
• 5000 lb towing capcity
“Tesla has made the
family car cool”

23. Connected Vehicle / Consumer Electronics Device
Full OTA Software Updates
New features sent wirelessly
The car gets better with each release

24. Connected Energy
Today
 70,000+ cumulative electric vehicles
 5GWh of batteries
Near Future
 1,000,000 electric vehicles
 70GWh of batteries
 10GW Controllable Charge Load

25. Tesla Fleet Mileage

26. Tesla Supercharger Network
 120 kW power
 400 mph charging (30 minutes)

27. Superchargers Today

28. Copyright 2014 Tesla Motors, Inc.
2nd Generation: Model S & X
1st Generation: Roadster
VehicleAffordability
Market Size / Timing
3rd Generation:
Model III
Product Roadmap

29. Copyright 2014 Tesla Motors, Inc.
Model 3

30. Copyright 2014 Tesla Motors, Inc.
Model 3

31. Copyright 2014 Tesla Motors, Inc.
Model 3

32. Tesla Gigafactory
 Largest battery factory in the world
 Under construction in Tahoe-Reno, Nevada

33. Tesla Gigafactory

34. • Battery Cost is steadily declining
– Higher energy density – less materials / kWh
– Production volume increasing dramatically, economy
of scale
– Production process moving from electronics to high
volume
Energy Storage Cost

35. • The cost of solar PV has
dropped precipitously
• Faster decline than even
those closest to the industry
expected
$0.60
PER WATT MODULE
COST IN 2015
Solar PV has followed a similar path

36. THE MISSING
PIECE
Renewable Energy Electric Transport

37. Address all Applications

38. POWERWALL DEPLOYMENTS

40. Storage Behind the Meter
Electric Utility
Ownership
Customer
Ownership

41. Storage Behind the Meter
Electric Utility
Ownership
Customer
Ownership
Aggregation
Utility or
ISO

42. Storage Behind the Meter
Electric Utility
Ownership
Customer
Ownership
Utility or
ISO
Aggregation

43. Storage Behind the Meter
Electric Utility
Ownership
Customer
Ownership
Utility or
ISO
Aggregation

44. Tomorrow’s Electric Infrastructure
1.2 B
PEOPLE WITHOUT
ELECTRICITY

45. Lathrop, CA
4MWh Installation Online

46. Solar and Wind cheaper than Coal: 3.87 cents/kWh

47. An Island Example – Kauai (Hawaii)
552 square miles
65,000 people
Goal: 50% renewable by 2023

48. Kauai Solar (6 MW array, 10% of daytime load)

49. Kauai Load Curve

50. Kauai Load Curve

51. Storing Bulk Renewable Energy
Load
Level

52. Utility Scale Solar Storage
Project Size Product Construction Start
KIUC 13MW/52MWh Powerpack June 2016

53. Eliminate 100% of fossil fuel energy use
Solar Area

54. “The stone age came to an end not for lack of stones.
And the oil age will come to an end not for lack of oil.”
— Sheikh Yamani, former Saudi Oil Minister

55. Question? Please raise
your hand and a mic
runner will come to you
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