Doge notwithstanding, The states will still have something to say about letting unmanned autonomous vehicles loose on their streets. The Waymo rollout has not been without its issues, and they are VERY careful with lots of back-end monitoring.
Tesla is not ready to have unmanned vehicles running around unless they do what Waymo does and have remote monitoring. On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/25/2025 8:10 PM, EV List Lackey via EV wrote: > > I don't know of another auto industry bigwig who generates anywhere near > as > > much controversy as Elon Musk, and I think we're now beyond any doubt > that > > it's hurting Tesla's sales. > You also need to take into account that Tesla is currently making a big > change to their best selling EV, the Model Y. > Production lines at all 4 factories are currently being changed, and > aren't producing the old version. > > This does reduce sales considerably. > > Ignoring the Optimus Robot, Tesla Energy systems is growing FAST - and > is also quite profitable. > > It is also likely that the Tesla Robotaxi will go into production and on > the road this year. (Note that NTSB is one of the agencies that has been > screwed by DOGE, so Autonomous Vehicle pushback from them may be limited.) > > Tesla and BYD are the only ones actually making a profit on their EV's. > (and the BYD numbers are somewhat fishy smelling when analyzed) > All the EU (and US) legacy car makers are having lack-of-sales-growth > issues, AND are loosing money on every EV. > Combine that with dropping Gas car sales, and EU car factories running > at well below capacity means that those companies are loosing money in > general. > > VW is cutting EV production until they get their "new platform" ready - > which is at least 2 years away. > > While Elon is a $#%^!@# disaster with DOGE, Tesla appears to be doing > quite well in spite of him. > It was generally expected that this quarter wouldn't be very good. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250225/6a432537/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
