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Elon Musk makes shocking admission about Tesla - Yahoo Finance
The admission lands in the middle of active litigation. Tesla owners have filed numerous class action lawsuits claiming Musk misled them for years about the capabilities of the Full Self-Driving ...
Elon's admission - mobility.techcrunch.com
Image credits: Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu/Getty Images Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Tesla earnings came and went, and much of it fell into the “we expected this” category. Investors seemed surprised by the $1.4 billion in free cash flow, which gave shares a brief bump, and revenue met or slightly exceeded expectations, depending on which batch of analysts you reviewed. The earnings call, however, did deliver one eyebrow-raising moment that prompted readers (including some ex-Tesla engineers and other founders in the industry) to reach out to me with some schadenfreude-tinted prose. CEO Elon Musk admitted that millions of Tesla owners will need hardware upgrades to run a future, more capable version of its Full Self-Driving software that doesn’t require human supervision. There are financial and legal implications for Tesla. As senior reporter Sean O’Kane wrote, Tesla owners with Hardware 3 cars have spent years bugging the company and Musk for a straight answer about whether they would be able to run this advanced version of Full Self-Driving — which, it should be noted, Tesla has not yet released or even proven it is capable of releasing. Tesla sold these Hardware 3 cars between 2019 and 2023. Now, here is the kicker and it made me guffaw. Musk said the company would need to physically upgrade each of these vehicles, a feat that would require Tesla to set up microfactories in several major cities to service potentially millions of vehicles. Microfactories? Yes, you heard correctly. This is not going to be cheap, and it could be one of the line items in Tesla’s capital expenditures budget, which it expanded to a whopping $25 billion this year. A little birdImage credits: Bryce Durbin Senior reporter Sean O’Kane obtained (and verified) an internal memo sent by Redwood Materials founder and CEO JB Straubel that announced layoffs and a restructuring. (Thanks to the little bird who shared it.) Straubel is a former CTO of Tesla. The company laid off around 135 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, as it restructures to better accommodate its growing energy storage business. O’Kane later learned several executives have also recently left. Chief operating officer Chris Lister is retiring, and at least three other VPs have left in recent months, with the company telling TechCrunch there has been a focus on reducing layers of management. ______________________________________________...
Tesla Full Self-Driving Controversy: Lawsuits Mount as Elon Musk's FSD ...
Analysis of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) highlights persistent gaps between marketed autonomy and operational reality, focusing on hardware limitations, legal challenges, subscription monetization, and regulatory risks. The briefing emphasizes the interplay of software scalability, hardware constraints, liability exposure, and the strategic pivot toward robotaxi mobility services.
# Tesla's Shocking Admission: Hardware 3 Falls Short of Full Self ...
A Promise Unfulfilled: The Bombshell from the Q1 Earnings Call In a stunning admission that sent shockwaves through the Tesla community and the broader automotive industry, CEO Elon Musk has officially confirmed what many have long feared: the company's Hardware 3 (HW3) self-driving computer is incapable of achieving true, unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD). The revelation came during Tesla ...
