Featured Tesla discontinues Model S and Model X, to concentrate on robots and Cybercab robotaxi

That was the Medicare insurance bill. Jumped to $1,250/mo or $15,000 per year.

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Does Tesla have such a robot that do all that now? That is affordable for a small business or even a household? Musk is closing down a production line for two niche cars to install one for their robots. Ones when demonstrated weren't fully autonomous. The impacts from drones didn't happen until they became cheap.

There isn't even an expensive humanoid robot yet. Maybe this will be the first, but who will buy it if current machines and people are still much cheaper?

 

I believe the gen 2 optimus is around $30K so yes it is affordable for small business manufacturers. They can carry on repetitive tasks well so fewer tesla employees that earn much more. I am thinking a company like amazon may want to buy a lot of this type of robot to work alongside humans but would probably want its own programming and AI. Definitely if companies like apple are going to reshore things like the iphone, it will be built with a large combination of automation and humanoid robots to cut costs. I am not expecting this as tim cook seems to have charmed his way into continuing iphone production in china and india.

It will take a lot of time before these things are suitable for home use except for the super rich that want an novelty to impress. Still 10 years from not who knows.

Model X was a failure and not profitable stopping its manufacturing makes good business sense, but the robots make a good excuse. Model S seems to have fallen behind the taycan, lucid air, and i4 in the BEV sport luxury car space and if you include phevs its even furthur. The drivetrain and software are there, but the interior and exterior need a major overhaul to compete. Who knows maybe tesla will do this quietly and release something great and a large BEV SUV in the space, but they have more benefit to making a more affordable SUV and putting a decent body and interior on the cybertruck and just keeping the tooling for those that want to stand out and cause my dog to want to pee on it.