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Nov 5 (Reuters) - When Reuters reported in April that Tesla had scrapped plans for a long-promised, next-generation $25,000 electric vehicle, the automaker’s stock plunged. Chief Executive Elon Musk rushed to respond on X, his social-media network.
“Reuters is lying,” he posted without elaborating. Tesla’s stock recovered some of its losses.
Six months later, Musk appears to have backed into an admission that Tesla dropped its plans for a human-driven $25,000 car. He said in an Oct. 23 earnings call that building the affordable EV would be "pointless” unless the car was fully autonomous.
His latest remarks came in response to an investor asking: “When can we expect Tesla to give us the $25,000 non-robotaxi regular car model?”
Musk responded: “We’re not making a non-robo…,” before he was interrupted by another Tesla executive. Musk later added: “Basically, I think having a regular $25K model is pointless. It would be silly.”
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Reminder to never believe a damn word that comes out of this man’s mouth. https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/
Ends in 2022 💀
Just going to leave this here with proof that Elmo said cars would be fully driving themselves by 2018: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/autonomous-driving/timeline-of-tesla-self-driving-aspirations-a9686689375/
He rolls out the same BS every time the stock needs to be pumped up. The good thing is, it didn’t work this time. This unveil actually made the stock drop because they’re so far behind.
@FlexibleToast @Breve now he is promising humanoid robots
I think that was a big reason why the stock took a hit. He keeps getting caught faking it, and even his fakes are decades behind Boston Dynamics.
@FlexibleToast yeah also I think people started realising that he does really know what he is talking about and he is just scamming people. Tesla autopilot not working as promised and all the accidents have played a part in this.
Just another 2 years bro we’re so close we’re almost there it’s in beta bro trust me it’s almost there
Translated: the Chinese won that battle, and TSLA doesn’t have enough R&D to chase self-driving and cheap, esp. given how unimpressive their self driving is compared to competitors
Just lobby to ban/tariff the competition. EZ
Actually read the article: It’s the exact opposite, they’re still making the FSD version.
They’re not making the version that people can drive.
It’ll be ready next year I promise.
You missed the “and” in the comment you were replying to. They can do fsd or they could do cheap. Not both. Though, to be honest I doubt they can do either.
I believe thats what they are insinuating
Ah, all electric but still gaslighting I see
Very tired of reading what Musk says.
i’ld like this summary the most:
Musk now says it’s ‘pointless’ to build a Tesla
😁
Musk, it’s pointless listening to your bullshit, now SHUT THE FUCK UP!
