Tesla Is Reportedly Behind On Its Pledge To Build 5,000 Optimus Bots This Year

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Tesla is good down nan gait needed to meet its earlier stated extremity of producing astatine slightest 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots this year, The Information reports. Nearly 8 months into 2025, and nan number of bots Tesla has produced is only successful nan hundreds, according to 2 sources. That intends Tesla will either request to measurement it up aliases push backmost nan deadline. 

The news comes aft Tesla reported a 12% diminution successful wide revenue successful nan 2nd quarter, owed to falling EV sales, little rate from regulatory credits, and a diminution successful star and power retention sales. During nan Q2 net telephone earlier this week, Musk said that Tesla would commencement accumulation connected its latest Optimus 3 creation by early adjacent year. 

“We will standard Optimus accumulation arsenic accelerated arsenic imaginable and effort to get to a cardinal units a twelvemonth arsenic quickly arsenic possible,” Musk said. “We deliberation we tin get location successful little than 5 years. That’s a reasonable aspiration.”

Recall that Musk has made bold claims for illustration this before. During Tesla’s 2019 Autonomy Day, Musk said nan institution would person a fleet of a million robotaxis connected nan roadworthy by 2020. Two years later, he said Tesla would mass-produce robotaxis by 2024. Neither of those projections has yet travel to pass.

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