Spoiler they lied during the Q1 call, the cheaper vehicles aren't coming in the first half of the year. In fact they just increased the price on some of their oldest models... the exact opposite of newer and cheaper. But don't worry about the car sales, it's all about that sweet Robotaxi service.
With its pay-per-use model, RoboTaxi is the cheapest Tesla of 'em all!! /s
When dealing with Tesla or Elon a good rule of thumb. promise=bullshit "for sure"=bullshit guarantee=bullshit
For Elon, lying is just as easy as breathing.
"Spoiler they lied during the Q1 call" that should be assumed by anyone hearing them (or Musk) speak.
They keep lowering the prices of all their models to stem the sales decline. So they were sort of not lying. 😆
Robotaxi is shit, it's all about Optimus V3 now.
Lie. Kick the can down the road. Distract with robots and robotaxis. Sell people dreams and keep hope alive is the playbook. Someday it will come crashing down but it seems ppl are still idiots
Lies, all lies.
Nah… they didn’t mean „more affordable“ as in cheaper, they meant „more affordable“ as in „more of those already super affordable ones we already have“ And you know what? They have lots of them standing around, gathering dust…
They promised autonomy in 2018 I think. I gave up waiting.
they MADE the promise q1. they'll be delivered someday soon we really mean it and it'll have the newest version of FSD which will actually teleport the user anywhere they want to go * *probably maybe then again or not
I knew that was a lie when I first heard it.
What’s more reliable a Tesla promise or a Trump 2 weeks?
It’s the taxi! You can go a couple of blocks for $4! Now you can’t get cheaper than that.
Bernie Madoff was a more honest actor than Elon Musk.
Lol so become a crash test dummy for musk and pay at the same time, no thanx
Is this a trick question?
How many investors remember this prediction? Wall Street has the memory of a fruit fly and the media won’t hold them to it. Just keep pumping the stock and we all win… until we don’t.
Oh [sherwood.news](http://sherwood.news) baby boy are you new to the world?
Wake me up when Tesla actually keeps one of their promises! This was expected.
You are not supposed to remember that.
Two weeks
They have been lying for years, not new behavior.
Come on guys and gals. If you just buy an expensive Tesla with FSD, the amount of money you’ll rake in by enabling the car to be Cyber taxi while you’re sleeping will make it real affordable /s
Have you seen the zero percent financing? They are right in front of you.
Frauds aren’t supposed to late this long. He’s in uncharted territory. Cut him some slack.
Remember when “dojo” was going to add $500B to the books?
I don't even track this, but I do remember something. Was it $500B or $5T?
Possibly easier.
Used Tesla prices have dropped 30-50% YoY There’s your affordable model 😅
It was one of Adam Jonas’ greatest hits. I just looked it up. Dojo was worth $600B and a major part of the $10T autonomous vehicle market.
Probably just “two more weeks”
They are where all his other promises are. In the shitter.
Used prices have tanked ... there you go. Promises made, promises kept!
They still got 5 days. Don't rush
They’re in used car lots everywhere!
😂😂😂😂
Was going to say anyone wanting 40% off a Cybertruck can just look online.
It's fine. The way those Cybertrucks are slowly rotting away in parking lots, they will be the affordable models by having to give the bloody things away.
And they look like the new ones
Bernie Madoff started scamming 35 years before he was caught, and only went to a full scam model about halfway through that.
Tesla... LIED???? no way
Gotta keep the stock pumped somehow
Cybertrucks are getting cheaper
They all self-drove themselves to the Mars colony.
Musk makes all sorts of promises, it is the fulfilling them part he struggles with.
2 weeks.
Musk always delivers ^TM
BYD if you’re government allows your country to import them
"Did I say affordable? Oops, in hindsight I guess I meant flammable."
fElon has been promising that since before the pandemic. Dude doesn't know what promise means. He was thinking when he makes enough profits then he would do the affordable models. He doesn't think he's made enough money yet. Overpromise but never deliver.
Have you seen the price of used Teslas? Elon delivered.
More affordable used now if that's what they meant
Well they’ve been promising Full Self-Driving since 2016 and it’s still not here….
I still don't understand how they weren't sued into oblivion after the robotaxi NPV presentation in April of 2019. Tesla would have declared bankruptcy in 2Q 2019 if they weren't able to raise $2B after that complete and total fraudulent presentation. You can just do whatever the fuck you want now in this post-factual world.
Just for grins can anyone think of one promise he has made that was kept? I am stunned the stock went up after he introduced a product that others did a decade ago.
Still waiting on that supplier to other manufacturers pretend business to ramp up
China. The Chinese have them. All of them, but you can't buy them.
Same same...
wait 8 yrs....like their robotaxi
Lmaoooooo hot take Elmo is a lying sack. It was never about an affordable car
$4 a ride baby Tesla stock up 10% on this news
All 10 of them …
Musk was never really supportive of an affordable model. Tesla is a brand for him, not the poors.
Critics are pedos obv.
Relatively speaking, from the board member’s perspective, after pumping (and dumping) the stock, all of the cars are more affordable.
Is it a way to keep new competitors compete on price?
And Musk’s ”next year” means that something won’t definitely happen. It is like a seal of bullshit, but apparently too many people still haven’t realized that yet.
Pretty much. This is going to be one of those things we read about in two years. Every sensible business specialist in the company is probably screaming for Musk to stop tweeting, update existing vehicles and put out lower cost ones to maintain market share. Meanwhile Musk is probably saying they're all stupid and don't get it, robotaxi is all that matters. They've probably been sitting on plans for a lower cost vehicle for a while and Musk either won't sign off because they've had to cut back on the autonomous hardware or simply because all he cares about is getting the Robotaxi into production, similar to how he killed the Model 2 a while ago. If we're being honest too the lower cost models aren't going to be super compelling. They're going to be lower cost and low quality trims of the existing models for the most part. Of course last year the stanbase was all hyped about these lower cost models actually being some new 'Model Q' that was going to sell like hotcakes in China and Europe despite Tesla telegraphing that the low cost models would be built on the 3 and Y lines with minor changes to increase affordability by maybe a few grand. Given what we've seen with margins shrinking already on their auto production these new models would likely be palliative at best too, serving largely just to keep the factories in production and the cash conversion cycle churning in order to limit negative cash flows out of the company's actual manufacturing business.
They can't manufacture such vehicles profitably. They don't even really make any money on the ones they currently produce without the subsidies.
When Optimus V3 turns out shit it’ll be all about the drones. Morgan Stanley js already laying the groundwork with ridiculous articles about how Tesla could make drones if they wanted to and if they did want to the company would be worth an extra trillion - which is handy as that should plus the gap between its real value and its current market cap.
Because they lie, every time. It is a scam company with a giant conman running the show.
Usually next yr means 10 yrs
Opens mouth=bullshit
Imagine if every time you lied you got a billion dollars richer...
Promises? Musk: 2019 “By the middle of next year, we’ll have over a million Tesla cars on the road with full self-driving hardware, feature complete, at a reliability level that we would consider that no one needs to pay attention,” October 21, 2019 "Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road," "The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That's all it takes." 2020 "All Tesla cars right now have everything necessary for self-driving available today. All you need to do is improve the software."
The company that promised an autonomous drive from New York to San Francisco in 2017 and struggles to find the correct lane in Austin in 2025 may have lied?
Depreciation is one way to make cars more affordable.
Juniper? 0% interest since may certainly made it affordable to Norwegians.
"Should ah, be ready in November, or maybe December"
He didn’t lie. He cut the price of used Teslas more than in half over the last year.
I promised myself this was the year I'm getting six pack abs and a 6' tall Norwegian model for a wife. That's more likely than an affordable new Tesla. The used ones are very affordable because they are garbage.
“Works on contingency? No, money down!”
They could reduce the price to zero, offer to pay people to drive their shitboxes, and people STILL wont want any of teslas garbage.
Where are they... In our dreams!
Boycott Tesla
"Lowe trim models" their current high end products have poor trim if it even stays on the vehicle. Perhaps they should swap over to electric scooters and work their way up from there.
I like when he stutters when he is about to lie as he is desperate to say something that will impress the fan boys.
In two weeks! Oops, wrong guy, "next year".
Tesla promises a lot of things.
Too late. @europe we dont want Tesla anymore. Pls sell this cars in the US .
Elon's been too busy stealing data from the USA and sucking off Trump to do anything else.
They were promising an affordable model when I was looking for a new car in 2014. Good thing I didn’t wait.
What kind of person would dive one of these now? Its nothing more than a symbol of hate, I can think of several flags that would be cheaper and communicate the same message.
You joke but that is what a company who was genuinely interested in moving the world to electric vehicles. Scooters are used all over the developing world, its a big market, and they are affordable, that should be prime territory, not oversized trucks that are ill designed for battery tech anyway. Look at the mass of different electric vehicles BYD makes.
FSD drones? Wait, I forgot to add “(supervised)”.
BYD is genuinely moving people to electric vehicles Tesla is just separating fools from their money.
Fire Elon Kill the CT program Just embrace the fact that the X is a minivan and sell more budget friendly versions. The Y and 3 can both be the “more affordable” models. Do a pickup variant of the Y, like the Maverick is to the Escape. Your welcome, just turned the company around
Soon *tm
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