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Posted by gumby 14 minutes ago

Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down(cleantechnica.com)
53 points | 10 comments
jdross 1 minute ago|
FSD that actually works and the massively popular in live markets robotaxi service are the obvious answer to “big-deal things that came after this CTO left”

$2B cybertruck failure barely registers vs how impactful FSD has been on model Y / 3 sales. Tesla is supply constrained again, with multi-month waits for the model Y L edition

Avicebron 6 minutes ago||
Isn't Tesla trying to be SpaceX's vertically integrated robotics division? My gut feeling says they are trying to move out of the EV business as crazy as that may seem to us normals.
matthewdgreen 1 minute ago||
Being in the EV business means having to accept predictable revenues that then tie to more predictable stock prices. Being in the business of "some future technology" doesn't.
martythemaniak 3 minutes ago|||
Not crazy at all. Tesla gave up being a car company a few years ago, but there's lot of inertia and the 3 and Y are still competitive products in the marketplace.
alpha_squared 2 minutes ago|||
Pretending Tesla isn't a car company and SpaceX isn't a satellite services company (Internet, maybe mobile) is wild stuff. The only real profits are from those traditional industries. All the sci-fi hype is for investors and fanatics.
notatoad 2 minutes ago|||
is this something that's actually happening, or just something elon told investors at his optimus event with the obviously fake robots a couple years ago?
thinkingtoilet 2 minutes ago||
It's not crazy at all. Elon, in all his genius, built up an EV company and then alienated the core demographic for his product. They tried to salvage it with a wildly over-priced, virtue-signaling "truck" and that didn't work. There are literally millions and millions of Americans who would have other wise loved to buy a Tesla but will never buy one because of Elon. They have to pivot.
0xy 45 seconds ago||
Cybercab seems to have had a very promising start, metrics are good. This seems far more of a political hate piece than one based on any data.
xqcgrek2 2 minutes ago||
Tesla is one china EV tariff away from bankruptcy
troupo 5 minutes ago|
Elon had an insane talent of finding the right people with wild moonshot ideas to run his companies while he was getting the credit and the limelight.

Then he got older, got into politics and fully bought into the marketing about himself. He thinks he's a genius and that everything he touches turns to gold.

Well... Turns out stuff works as long as he is out of the loop and doesn't make any direct decisions.