Elon Musk and Tesla Forged a New EV Path

(spectrum.ieee.org)

15 points | by vinhnx 20 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • cisc 19 hours ago

    > Tesla Motors was becoming an auto manufacturer.

    Tesla now says it's an AI and robotics company.

    BYD sells more EVs than Tesla so it probably makes sense not to try to compete with them. BYDs charge faster and cost less.

    Tesla is losing market share while EV adoption is growing a worldwide:

    https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026/trends-in...

    https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/07/20/byd-delivered-5570...

    https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL_MONTHLY/Groups/Line/All-t...

    • MiroslavPokorny 19 hours ago

      What exactly are these robots supposed to build ?

      • vrighter 16 hours ago

        they will eventually open preorders, then increase the prices for the prepaid orders, and then actually deliver the dancer in a robot suit

      • Bolwin 17 hours ago

        Build?

        Nah these robots are for repacing the customer service jobs

      • fragmede 18 hours ago

        Moar robots

      • cisc 19 hours ago

        Hype.

      • verdverm 18 hours ago

        https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Gwendolyn

        he's on a mission to save humanity from itself /s

  • Zigurd 4 hours ago

    It's astounding that Elon could take an accomplishment as huge as starting and building a viable car manufacturer and screw it up. Ever since cyber truck became the worst flop in automotive history, Elon has been flooding the zone with random ideas like humanoid robots.

    Tesla could've built an insurmountable lead in EV design by quickly shifting from cyber truck to a low cost model. Something went wrong with that, resulting in the outlandish claims that the former low cost project is now a Robo taxi project. That project failure will probably get swept under the rug of SpaceX merger.

    That's what you get when your strategerist thinks Polytopia is a deeper game than chess.