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The CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, observes while President Donald Trump talks to the media, outside the White House in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2025.
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During Elon Musk’s Two months in Washington, DC, Tesla The actions have been in a precipitated decline, Lose more than 40% of its value.
Protests And campaigns against Tesla, Musk and their work at Trump’s White House have exploded worldwide. Criminal acts of vandalism and arson They have also directed some electric vehicles of Tesla, exhibition halls and cargo stations in a series of incidents in the United States and throughout Europe.
In a meeting of all hands with Tesla employees on Thursday night, Musk addressed some of those problems, while trying to assure employees who were still in good hands and “clung to their actions.” Actions increased 4% on Friday.
“It is very difficult as for people in the stock market, especially those that are seen in the rearview mirror, which is most people, imagine a future in which suddenly a fleet of 10 million vehicles has five to ten times the utility,” Musk said, promoting his vision of autonomous vehicles that he has promised for a long time. “It is so deep and there is no comparison with anything in the past that does not calculate. But it will calculate in the future.”
In recent months, new sales of Tesla vehicles have fallen in Europe and in parts of the United States and China. The company faces commercial uncertainty after multiple executive orders of President Trump imposed new tariffs on goods and materials in Canada, Mexico and China, home of Crucial Suppliers of Tesla. National Car Purchasing Site Edmunds said this week that Tesla owners are exchanging their electric vehicles at record levels.
“If you read the news, it feels like, you know, Armageddon,” Musk said in the live broadcast on Thursday. “It’s like, I can’t go on television without watching a tesla in flames. What’s happening? Some people, it’s like listening, I understand if you don’t want to buy our product, but you don’t have to burn it. That’s a bit unreasonable.”
He continued saying: “This is a psychopath, it ceases to be a psychopath!”
The employees laughed at him.
Musk spent much of the meeting promoting Tesla’s technology, or its perspectives.
“What is the most exciting future you could imagine?” He asked rhetorically. He replied that it is “a future of abundance for all”, where robotaxis, artificial intelligence and robots now in development in Tesla will cause a future “where you could literally have everything you want.”
Musk celebrated the state of Best-Seller of Tesla Model and, and said that the electric SUV would be the “best-selling car on Earth this year” and “available worldwide.” He boasted that Cybertruck’s angular steel truck, Tesla, had become the totally electric sale truck. Despite a massive Cybertruck withdrawal announced previously on Thursday, Musk also praised the vehicle because he had reached a 5 -star rating for accident security.
Thanked Tesla’s employees for the Renewed version of the model and, saying that the company’s supply chains on three continents proved to be a challenge for the car to be marketed.
Musk boasted about the next CybercabismA two places without steering wheel or brakes, and electric vehicles that will be updated to have Robotaxi capabilities with a software update. It is a promise that has been doing for years. In 2016, Musk told Tesla owners that their cars could make a trip through the country without driver by the end of 2018.
In Tesla’s Last gain callMusk said a driver’s transport service will arrive in Austin, Texas, in June, using existing Tesla vehicles and a company’s FSD version or the company’s “autonomous driving” software, which currently requires a driver behind the wheel ready to direct or stop at any time.
Musk said Thursday that Cybercab will occur in Austin, as well as the company’s humanoid robot, called Optimus. The Optimus is now gathering at the Fremont factory, California of the company, said, and Tesla aims to produce around 5,000 units this year.
Both in Robota and Humanoid Robotics markets, Tesla faces hard competition.
Alphabet Waymo is expanding its transport without driver in more US markets, recently launching in Austin. And Chinese EV manufacturers, including Zeekr, plan to make their equivalents to the Tesla and FSD autopilot are available as standard options.
Meanwhile, several humanoid robotics developers, including APPTRONIK, Boston Dynamics and Unitree, are working to take their models to the market. Boston Dynamics, in association with RAI InstituteHe released a new video this week that shows his electric humanoid robot, walking, running, crawling and gymnastics.
Even so, Musk says that Tesla’s optimus is “the most sophisticated humanoid robot on earth”, although he is now “learning to walk and catch balls” and in most of its main manifestations it has been operated by people.
Tesla employees will be the first to obtain access to robots, he said, added that one day they will work as the characters of Star Wars R2-D2 and C-3PO.
“We will offer Optimus Robots first to Tesla employees,” Musk said. “There are some advantages and disadvantages for that, they probably have some mistakes. But it will be great.”
