Feels a lot like giving up. I guess this is why there is such a strong change in the Tesla messaging, to Robotaxis and robots. But maybe this is inevitable. The cars being made in China are pretty amazing and I don’t think it is possible for American or European companies to compete.

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reactordev 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We outsourced it and it would take us 10 years to retool and rebuild that kind of capability. No one wants to take that kind of investment on.

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stackghost 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The narrative from Musk cultists has been "Tesla isn't a car company, it's a bet on $excuse_du_jour" for at least a year and a half.

	▲	neets 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I am surprised that nobody here is talking about grid energy storage, they basically invented that business vertical. It's about 13% of their revenue.
	▲	jbm 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Certainly longer than that. I actually thought Tesla as an energy company made sense — sadly just an excuse to buy and shelve solarcity.