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Hayden Sonnad

Co-Founder & CCO, Carmiq. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Hayden Sonnad founded Tesloop at age 16 alongside his father, creating a shared-transit service using Tesla electric vehicles. He later co-founded Carmiq, a connected electric vehicle software platform, and authored the book Self-Driving Cars.

1shows
1appearances
10statements
3resolved
1supported
1contradicted
33%fully supported

Everything Hayden Sonnad said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

THE PITCH Assertion Partly supported
Sonnad: Musk assured free lifetime Supercharging for Model S long-distance travel
“So I brought the idea up with Elon Musk at the shareholders meeting in 2015, and at that point he assured me that Tesla would pay for all of the fuel costs for long distance travel in the Model S forever.”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 7:23 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sonnad: Tesloop exposes more people to Teslas than Tesla's marketing
“Well, how I see it, at least in the short run, we're really, we're doing Tesla a favor, because when you look at the numbers of Tesla's test drives, and how they're trying to get customers in their cars, we're actually introducing a lot more people into Tesla'…”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 28:34 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sonnad: Tesla executives are aware of Tesloop's commercial Supercharger use
“As of right now, they haven't drawn that line, and we are, in somewhat collaborating with Tesla, they're aware of what's happening, they're aware we're using it for commercial use, and right now they haven't said anything about that, and there are a lot of peo…”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 8:30 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sonnad: Long-distance electric transit can only use Teslas for four years
“The first is that for the next four years, this can only be done on Teslas. They have the only platform with big batteries and supercharging and nice cars that allows this model to happen.”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:18 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Opinion
Sonnad: Uber cannot work with Tesla due to sensor data ownership
“And for strategic reasons, Uber can't really work with Tesla because then Tesla would have All of the information to their sensory data, and Uber would have none of that, so they'd be kind of losing all of the information about their cars.”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 9:30 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sonnad: Tesla will not enter city-to-city transit market
“We don't think Tesla's gonna try to do this himself. Elon Musk is not about creating city to city transit. Right now, one of his biggest focuses is automizing manufacturing, and there's a lot of focus on that from Tesla and the rest of his companies, that we d…”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 16:46 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sonnad: Tesla's autonomous rideshare restriction does not ban Tesloop
“I don't know the exact details, but that, that announcement wasn't fully true because it doesn't actually eliminate us from using their autonomous ride sharing. There's some weird clauses in there that actually do let us proceed with everything that we're doin…”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 27:44 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Assertion Supported
Sonnad reveals his father serves as CEO of Tesloop
“The CEO's my dad, so.”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 5:43 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Insight
Sonnad: EV economics are optimal for 50-to-300-mile regional trips
“50 to 300 is our target distance, is what we call the electric hall, where the economics of electric cars really benefit you. Because further than that, you have to charge the car too much. Shorter than that, like a gas powered car kind of benefits you because…”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 6:50 #11 Tesloop
THE PITCH Disclosure
Sonnad: Tesloop is raising $1M, with $500K already closed
“So we're here today raising one million dollars to do this. 500,000 of which we've already closed. So, to clarify, we're here today to raise 500,000 more.”
Hayden Sonnad Mar 3, 2025 ▶ 3:26 #11 Tesloop

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