According to Bloomberg News, this year will be an unstable year according to Tesla’s own standards, mainly due to declining sales, confusion in product decision-making, and substantial price cuts.
Elon Musk has initiated the largest layoffs in the company’s history and pinned Tesla’s future on a next-generation self-driving car concept called “Robotaxi” (literally translated as “robot taxi”). According to reports, the idea of self-driving taxis has been brewing within Tesla for at least eight years, but Tesla has not yet established much of the infrastructure required or obtained the approval to test these vehicles on public roads. regulatory permission.
▲ What appeared in Walter Isaacson’s “Elon Musk” is said to be an “early design drawing” of Robotaxi
For the “survivors” of this layoff, Elon Musk has “completely changed” the way forward. The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that both in terms of the timetable for manufacturing prototypes and the arrangement of production capacity, Robotaxi is now taking priority over Elon Musk’s previous forecast of US$25,000 (Note: currently about 181,000 RMB) Cheap cars.
Meanwhile, several other company executives support continued development of the $25,000 model. Tesla has been pursuing a low-cost vehicle architecture for several years that could support several different models, including one without a steering wheel or pedals, according to people familiar with its plans.
It is reported that Tesla plans to extend the development of next-generation vehicles to Model Y and Model 3 in an effort to reduce the cost of the project in terms of components and production methods.
