This. They’ll shut down for retooling, open up to churn out a small number of robots that do nothing, and claim success while firing most of the staff.
Teppic@piefed.social 13 hours ago
So basically the cars are not selling, but he doesn’t want to be seen to be closing the factories.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Well the contract he signed for $1 trillion by 2035 specifies he has to deploy 1 million robots and 1 million robots taxis. Which I can see happening.
The issue I see with it is he has to get Tesla car deliveries up to 20 million a year. To put that into perspective, new car sales in the U.S. has never hit 20 million vehicles that I know of. Globally I just saw their sales were at less than 2 million.
So chopping the $80,000+ models and keeping the ~$40,000 models that make up 97% of their sales makes sense. He needs something that will gather a lot of new sales, and there aren’t mass amounts of people with $100k to buy a new car.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
My bet is on him selling cars to himself somehow
aramis87@fedia.io 11 hours ago
Nah, he'll have the government buy them as fleet cars.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The S and X haven’t really sold well since the model 3/y were ramped up. Even before the nazi shit they were low, and he’s hinted a couple times before that as well that their days were numbered.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s total bullshit. They don’t need to do anything to the factory. They haven’t made X and Y in Fremont for 2 years. There isn’t anything to retool or any space to reuse.
The factory already frequently takes manufacturing breaks for days at a time. If he had a robot to build, they have capacity, but let’s not fool ourselves. There is nothing to manufacture or deliver.
This is just him hoping he can fool people into thinking they still even need his factories at full capacity. Pretty sure they don’t.