Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots

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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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