The Teala Model 2 program, has been cancelled so the company can focus on robotaxis several company insiders told Reuters this week.
details in exquisite detail how a group of Tesla engineers lobbied Elon Musk for years to give up his fixation on robotaxis and get on with the business of making a less expensive mass market car. That car is usually referred to as the Model 2, although that is not the name Tesla would use for it.
After the news story was published today, Musk posted on his social media site that “Reuters is lying ” but did not identify any specific inaccuracies. Plans for the more affordable Tesla have been seen as key to delivering on Musk’s stratospheric ambitions for sales growth. Musk said in 2020 that Tesla aspired by 2030 to sell 20 million vehicles a year. That is approximately double what the top selling automakers in the world have ever sold in a single year. Naturally, a $25,000 vehicle has been seen as critical to any attempts at such a target and has been included in countless sock market analysts’ forecasts for Tesla sales.
In another March 1 message, the manager thanked engineering staffers for their efforts and urged them to document what they had learned. “I’d like to thank everyone for all your hard work and dedication to pushing boundaries and executing the best design possible given the aggressive constraints we had to work within,” the message said. “We would not want all our hard work to go to waste, so it’s important that we tie things off and document things properly.
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