Tesla is effectively behind the tempo wanted to fulfill its earlier said aim of manufacturing no less than 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots this yr, The Info reviews. Practically eight months into 2025, and the variety of bots Tesla has produced is barely within the a whole lot, in line with two sources. Meaning Tesla will both must step it up or push again the deadline.
The information comes after Tesla reported a 12% decline in general income within the second quarter on account of falling EV gross sales, much less money from regulatory credit, and a decline in photo voltaic and power storage gross sales. In the course of the Q2 earnings name earlier this week, Musk stated that Tesla would begin manufacturing on its newest Optimus 3 design by early subsequent yr.
“We are going to scale Optimus manufacturing as quick as potential and attempt to get to one million items a yr as rapidly as potential,” Musk stated. “We predict we will get there in lower than 5 years. That’s an affordable aspiration.”
Recall that Musk has made daring claims like this earlier than. Throughout Tesla’s 2019 Autonomy Day, Musk stated the corporate would have a fleet of one million robotaxis on the highway by 2020. Two years later, he stated Tesla would mass-produce robotaxis by 2024. Neither of these projections has but come to move.
