Tesla is properly behind the tempo wanted to fulfill its earlier stated goal of producing at the very least 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots this 12 months, The Information reports. Almost eight months into 2025, and the variety of bots Tesla has produced is barely within the lots of, in response to two sources. Which means Tesla will both must step it up or push again the deadline.
The information comes after Tesla reported a 12% decline in overall revenue within the second quarter attributable to falling EV gross sales, much less money from regulatory credit, and a decline in photo voltaic and power storage gross sales. Throughout the Q2 earnings name earlier this week, Musk mentioned that Tesla would begin manufacturing on its recognition Optimus 3 design by early subsequent 12 months.
“We are going to scale Optimus manufacturing as quick as doable and attempt to get to 1,000,000 items a 12 months as rapidly as doable,” Musk mentioned. “We expect we are able to 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 mentioned the corporate would have a fleet of a million robotaxis on the road by 2020. Two years later, he mentioned Tesla would mass-produce robotaxis by 2024. Neither of these projections has but come to cross.