Tesla CEO Elon Musk yesterday laid out another series of ambitious targets while hosting a Tesla Autonomy Investor Day.
These included more details of a plan to profitability for the American electric vehicle (EV) maker during a period of additional financial turmoil. There is concern within Wall Street that demand for Teslas has slowed after an initial global rush this year, while short-term problems such as arranging successful deliveries globally has proved to be a sticking point.
Musk forecasted that the company will become “extremely cashflow-positive” once it has established a network of “autonomous robotaxis”, beginning next year. He admitted that Tesla “won’t have regulatory approval everywhere” to run such a network but said he was “confident we will have at least regulatory approval somewhere, literally next year”.
Acknowledging criticism of Tesla sometimes failing to deliver on its promises, Musk said: “All these things, I said we’d do them. We did it. We’re going to do the robotaxi things too. The only criticism – it’s a fair one – sometimes they’re not on time”.
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Running before walking
Put it on the back burner until a prototype can drive itself from East to West London via the elephant and castle with no more than 3 crashes.
Until then lauch a Model 3 in Europe without ANY autonomous BS for £4,000 less and let the buyer decide!
typos1 - Just can’t respect opinion
Peter Cavellini
Pie in the Sky...?
This is a bit of a stretch, he may be a genius (?) but , Cars with no pedals or wheel to steer?, I’d like to be proved wrong but.....
Peter Cavellini.
Jeremy
I suspect he’s been on the
I suspect he’s been on the wacky baccy again...
russ13b
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.... then take a eurostar to france, do 2 laps of the arc de triomph taking 2 exit&entry each time. roadworthiness afterwards isn't compulsory, but no software errors are allowed
russ13b
silly question
no plans on something that isn't full of gadgets and toys, that people can actually afford? no autopilot or fancy doors, none of that stuff, no high performance modes, not even 4wd, just a normal car. i'm also a bit surprised that lotus haven't taken a load of tesla bits and rolled out electric elise and evora. given how much better the batteries etc are now, a "roadster mk2" should be pretty decent
fadyady
No contest!
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