How does this idiot have any money?
At least the costumes can be sold for Halloween in Tesla’s forthcoming liquidation sale, unlike their cars that nobody wants.
Fascist scammer
Stock market capitalization bigger than all the European and American car brands COMBINED but they only sell two very similar vehicles. Makes sense
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?
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 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.
Should Hasbro be able to sue for this? Sure there’s some trademark here.
They’re not making the car that got them started and popular? A bold move.
Elon Musk is a Nazi
He Should be stripped of his security clearance and incarcerated immediately.
why does he have it in the first place? he is just a rich psychopath
He’s only got security clearance because he’s a Nazi. A normal person would have been denied it.
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.
Now it’s just “EY.”
Someone should troll him that its a trans thing
Don’t forget it’s actually 3Y, if you want to make sure whatever trolling actually sticks.
I am personally rather skeptical about the commercial viability of humanoid robots in 2026, but I suppose that we shall see.
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:
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
It won’t matter if they’re cheaper.
People are very expensive.
If it’s taken Boston Dynamics decades it’s going to take Elon Musk centuries.
Move fast, and kill all humans.
They are just the prototypes to the eventual Slaughterbots that will be deployed into the streets to kill us, and bring us under control.
I’m sure that’s the vision but I’m not entirely sure that Elon Musk is the man to bring it about.
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…
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?
Almost literally this
Almost literally this
I smell Iron Man 2 plot.
But why has it become reality?
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, lol. All the robots need is any actual robotics, and then they’re good to go!
they can do “policing” even more effectively than ICE.
A bulldozer with a brick on the pedal can do “policing” more effectively than ICE. That’s not much of a flex.
With all due respect, you’re crazy. They can’t even scoop popcorn.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/23/tesla-teleoperated-robot-fail-serving-popcorn-first-day-new-diner/
Drop your weapons!
Family looks confused holding ice cream cones
You have 20 seconds to comply!
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.
Nazis deserve a machete to the face, but that’s just my opinion.
This will be a glorious failure.
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.
Tesla plan to build a “tera-plant” to make RAM.
They might have at least a few years worth of contracts in place. Beyond that, hopefully the current ram situation sorts itself out?
They don’t need to be affordable, they will be subscribed to. What, poor, you don’t have the iRobot subscription?
So basically the cars are not selling, but he doesn’t want to be seen to be closing the factories.
The S and X haven’t really sold well since the model 3/y were ramped up. Those ate most of their sales. Even before the nazi shit they were low, and he’s hinted a couple times before that as well that their days were numbered.
They did want a car to put fancy tech in like the plaid version, but that’ll just be the roadster now instead.
They are leaving a big gap in the lineup though without a bigger SUV, so it’ll be interesting to see if they bring the extended Y from China to other markets now.
Edit: actually it was just after the salute before it’s impact would have been apparent in Feb. They mentioned there was some nostalgia around them even though they weren’t selling a lot, but at the same time said they weren’t going to cancel them… so that didn’t age well.
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.
That’s the better choice over the X even when they still have it as well.
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.
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.
Well the contract he signed for ~$1 trillion by 2035 specifies he has to deploy 1 million robots and 1 million robo-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.
My bet is on him selling cars to himself somehow
Nah, he’ll have the government buy them as fleet cars.
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.
You’re dead on, 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.
… Not using the existing machines doesn’t mean they aren’t still there, and not the right configuration for building robots…
