So basically the cars are not selling, but he doesn’t want to be seen to be closing the factories.
Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots
Submitted 2 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
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Teppic@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
… Not using the existing machines doesn’t mean they aren’t still there, and not the right configuration for building robots…
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
I don’t think them discontinuing old models is a problem. The problem is that they were supposed to announce new models years ago. No they are closing factories and not only still didn’t announce anything, they are switching to robots. So no new models are coming. It’s a disaster. Looks like Musk took charge at the company, forced everyone to work on Cybertruck, this failed and now they don’t know what to do.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They are leaving a big gap in the lineup though without a bigger SUV….
One of the bigger reasons I’ve been looking at an R1S from Rivian.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
S and X are luxury bespoke high performance models not intended to sell in large numbers. In fact, Tesla doesn’t have the capacity to make them in large numbers.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Nazis deserve a punch in the face, not money.
Boycott Tesla and Nazi led companies. Do not buy their products, do not buy their stock. Ensure any investment funds you have are free of Nazis.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nazis deserve a machete to the face, but that’s just my opinion.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or I’m a fucking Nazi and no one will by my shit anymore.
123@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
There’s going to be plenty of idiots that will see the never proven mostly unusable robot as a good thing for the company. Another trillion dollar bonus package approved!
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sadly, lots of fucking morons are still buying their shit.
Fewer, but lots.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I know a Cybertruck owner that has to scrape dogshit off the windows every week. He wants to sell it, but it would mean a $60K loss in 11 months.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Sales are tanking, profits are tanking, and he’s being forced to abandon his precious “SEXY” branding, by ditching the S and the X. Now it’s just “EY.”
Tesla has crashed, and is NEVER coming back. Sales/profits will continue to slip with each earnings report. The only thing keeping it afloat is because it is held in massive institutional investment accounts, but as it continues it’s inexorable slide, those institutional accounts will start to sell down, accelerating the slide, until they all bail, and Tesla stock nosedives.
Tesla will be bankrupt in 2 years.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now it’s just “EY.”
Someone should troll him that its a trans thing
eronth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget it’s actually 3Y, if you want to make sure whatever trolling actually sticks.
acme401@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Elon Musk is a Nazi
He Should be stripped of his security clearance and incarcerated immediately.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
why does he have it in the first place? he is just a rich psychopath
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Because the Republican party has become the party of rich psychopaths
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
He’s only got security clearance because he’s a Nazi. A normal person would have been denied it.
capnbubblebuns@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How does this idiot have any money?
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Step 1: Start with lots of money
Step 2: Find a bunch of other rich idiots willing to invest their money.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I gave him lots of money when he showed off Teslas all-electric sports car, pitched the model S sedan, and laid out the plan for solar roof tiles, and home battery storage.
It was a beautiful moment when I saw a billionaire putting their money against fossil fuels.
When he was struggling to get model 3 production rolling, I gave him lots more money.
Then he started shitting on trans folks and I started divesting, but still wanted Tesla to succeed.
Then he essentially bought twitter with that money I gave him to develop Tesla and reports of working conditions started coming out so I divested more… But I held hope Tesla board would kick him out and I could put that money back.
Then he got into politics and Tesla board voted to give Elon tens of billions and I left all the way.
Fucking shame.
There was a moment when Tesla was investing tens of billions into actual electrification research and developing compelling projects and making lots of money because of it.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Every once in a while he blackmails the Tesla board into giving him a shit ton of money. Besides that he doesn’t have much, his wealth is in stocks, mostly Tesla, because his other companies aren’t publicly traded. What rich people do to actually get money is they get a loan backed by their stocks, and then never really paying it back. Tesla is extremely overvalued, but because of that he can just borrow as much money as he wants.
tal@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I am personally rather skeptical about the commercial viability of humanoid robots in 2026, but I suppose that we shall see.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
They are just the prototypes to the eventual Slaughterbots that will be deployed into the streets to kill us, and bring us under control.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I’m sure that’s the vision but I’m not entirely sure that Elon Musk is the man to bring it about.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
He is shifting production to a robot he can’t even show a working prototype for. The US taxpayer will be buying some expensive Roombas in 2026…
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The military and DHS will buy them up like hot cakes i bet. Coming soon to a street corner near you. My question is will they be armed with 5.56 or 7.62?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I smell Iron Man 2 plot.
But why has it become reality?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You should see just how far Boston Dynamics has progressed. They’ve been working on it for literally decades, and it shows. They may have humanoid AI robots working in automotive assembly lines within a year or two:
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If it’s taken Boston Dynamics decades it’s going to take Elon Musk centuries.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They may have humanoid AI robots working in automotive assembly lines within a year or two
Bullshit. Cute dance videos are not actual productivity, and the most recent video shows a B-D -Robot barely taking a large part of a large self and dropping it into a rack. Stuff one armed robots already do.
Watch the videos: they always distract with cute waves and dancing but no way will these toys replace skilled labor.
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doubt. There was FT article about robots efficiency in factories with title.
Robots only half as efficient as humans, says leading Chinese producer
Robots in this and next deade will be big flop. It will be like with VR from 80s and 90s
themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Damn. It’s the end then. That can only mean the robots are ready for the streets. Literally, THE STREETS.
Think about it. He’s in the government (non-elected) and they are deploying ICE agents everywhere.
The robots will 100% be seen standing at street corners “keeping the peace” within a year.
Omfg am I crazy, or is this realistic? Please just tell me I’m wrong and there’s no chance.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re not crazy, but it won’t be Elon who does it. The Tesla robots are nowhere near ready for production. This is vaporware, just like the Roadster.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Oh please, all the robots need is a light intensity sensor, some simple targeting, and a gun actuator, and they can do “policing” even more effectively than ICE. Maybe a speaker to play a token warning message before firing. You know something like “HALT! Show your identity papers, you have 10 seconds to comply, 9, 8, 7”
Movement comes later, once all the immigrants have figured out where the robots are planted.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
With all due respect, you’re crazy. They can’t even scoop popcorn.
Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Drop your weapons!
Family looks confused holding ice cream cones
You have 20 seconds to comply!
Canigou@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
You’re not crazy, just slightly panicked. They won’t be in the streets within a year. It will certainly take at least TWO years to get there ! Please, lets all remain reasonable.
Canigou@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They literally don’t even work.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just in time to “defend” the “results” of the 2028 election.
melfie@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Spirit Halloween is gonna be lit in a few years!
Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
They are making robots that are confirmed to not do anything on their own? The ones he has been scamming people and lying over using human remote operators?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The robots are going to finish that tunnel in California. They will carry your car through the tunnel, as always promised. They just need a little funding.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ain’t nobody gonna buy your stupid Nazibots either, di ckhead. You are universally despised.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not universally unfortunately. Republicans/racists still think he’s pretty great.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Still? I hardly hear about the guy’s antics anymore.
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re not making the car that got them started and popular? A bold move.
Kaz@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
46% earnings drop in Tesla, they’re pivoting cause no one wants musks cars anymore.
They’ve blown public trust, so now they’re pivoting to businessmen with no morals.
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wonder if the 3 is selling better. Maybe they will put more effort in to it.
Maybe they shouldn’t have made that shit truck.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Keeping with Tesla’s Swasticar theme, the new Model S will be the called the SS.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
“Twice as fascist!”
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Optimus robots? Do they have a crossover truck model called Prime? Is it actually a decepticon?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He desperately wants people to think he’s cool.
Maeve@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Crowd control Decepticon
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Thinking about this further down the road: What happens when the company stops making cars altogether or drops support? Do these smart cars still function without having to call home, or do they effectively become bricks on wheels?
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bricks on wheels. They leverage AWS services last spelunking showed.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Should Hasbro be able to sue for this? Sure there’s some trademark here.
Kaz@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
How fuckin dare he drag Optimus’ name through the gutter with his fascist metal dogs.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
He’s so fucking uncreative. At least Thiel is slightly more clever with his references
UniversalApproximation@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fascist scammer
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
This dude needs to stop getting high for, like, twenty minutes.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Stock market capitalization bigger than all the European and American car brands COMBINED but they only sell two very similar vehicles. Makes sense
clifmo@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Did Tesla stock go up on this glorious news?
fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Those robots are complete vaporware. I would predict we’re about to see whole lot of robot hype video clips on twitter and tiktok very soon. We’re going to see his fake “robot” playing soccer, making breakfast, juggling, and whatever. I’m sure they’ll be all ai generated. There will be paid tesla influencers who already bought cybertruck hyping up this non existent robots very soon. Elon will tout millions of robots sold but in reality they were all sold to spacex and those robots will be sitting in a hanger somewhere. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
lol this is hilarious. kick the bucket+++++++. this may be fun to watch.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Wtf is going on in that picture? Is there a Tesla with Delorean doors?
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Pappabosley@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
All I can hear is “Get ready to smash some clankers soon” ✨
Thank you mister Elon Musk for making the most advanced punching bags yet ! Pretty please, can you make it so they bleed when we destroy them ? Being splashed with android blood sounds absolutely glorious 👑
midas22@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Tesla booked just $2.28 billion in “bedrock,” repeatable earnings. […] At its current market cap of $1.44 trillion, Tesla’s selling at an adjusted PE of 632 ($1.44 trillion divided by $2.28 billion). Palantir, the super-hot supplier of software to the intelligence community, is often cited as the ultimate in over-the-top valuations at a multiple of 353. But Palantir’s got nothing on Tesla. At a “core” multiple that’s 80% higher, Tesla easily beats Palantir for offering minimal pennies in profit for every dollar you’re paying for the shares.
https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/tesla-stock-price-pe-earnings/
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Just don’t have interest but who exactly is the optimist robot marketed at? Like we all know that it doesn’t work without remote control so who’s gonna buy it.
LordMayor@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
This will be a glorious failure.
aramis87@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they're not), I don't see how he's going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They might have at least a few years worth of contracts in place. Beyond that, hopefully the current ram situation sorts itself out?
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tesla plan to build a “tera-plant” to make RAM.