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Pascal retweeted
It’s sort of dumb to pay $30,000 for a car that you then also have to pay $300 a month to use
Pascal retweeted
$300/month for 4 years is >$14,000.
The Cybercab is practically more expensive than Model 3 and half as practical.
BREAKING: Tesla has officially started inviting select customers in Austin to order Cybercabs for personal use! This is real.
• Price for Cybercab: $29,990
• $299/month Autonomy Subscription. One month included with purchase. Subscription and regular vehicle maintenance required to operate.
Tesla: "Order your own Cybercab for personal use. Cybercab is making transportation more efficient, affordable and accessible than ever before."
First deliveries are expected by end of 2026.
Pascal retweeted
Also, let's make one thing clear:
If it sells for $30k and requires a monthly subscription to go anywhere, then the spirit of the bet is obviously that it isn't a $30k car
Pascal retweeted
Development of the Starbase supercompute site is creating an opportunity to address decades of environmental neglect.
Portions of the property were used for unauthorized dumping dating back to the 1960s. We're undertaking cleanup efforts to remove decades of accumulated debris, including scrap metal, discarded appliances, old tanks, fiberglass insulation, construction materials, and thousands of illegally dumped tires
Pascal retweeted
Exclusive: Musk Cut Basic Autopilot From New Vehicles to Boost FSD Subscriptions
Sources say Musk personally made the call to drop Autosteer from new Teslas, a move that pushes buyers toward FSD and closer to his 10 million subscription goal.
Full Story:
notateslaapp.com/news/4988/e…
Pascal retweeted
People who live paycheck to paycheck still overwhelmingly have needs that make not owning a car hugely impractical.
Car ownership is a choice of freedom and convenience more than money.
Sure - average cost might be $12k. But nobody is forcing you to pay the average price. You are free to buy an old $2k banger and keep your tools, child seats, chargers, spare shoes, spare jacket, umbrella just in case, and shopping while you stop somewhere in the car because it’s yours.
Vast majority of Americans are not switching to using taxis because life is more complex than the price of getting from A to B.
Pascal retweeted
Owner of eyes and a brain here.
Cybercab will not do the majority of miles in any reasonably sized country ever.
It will not even come remotely close.
The reason people own cars is not because taxis are expensive.
It’s because it is far more convenient and practical.
Pascal retweeted
Be honest, which Tesla camp do you fall into?
1. As long as Tesla stock goes up, I'm happy.
2. Tesla will not get rid of consumer FSD and Tesla vehicles to maximize robotaxi profits.
3. I want to own an autonomous vehicle and robot, not pay-per-ride / pay-per-task.
10%One
27%Two
63%Three
1,629 votes • Final results Pascal retweeted
Humans trolling these ridiculous AI job interview bots is the kind of entertainment I didn't know I needed. Pure perfection. 🤣
Pascal retweeted
The idea Tesla can’t currently build over 500 Cybercabs a week is insane
You can currently build about 125k/yr with the currently in place production line.
The idea Tesla needs more than 500 Cybercabs/ week for the next year is also insane
There’s under 600 total Cybercab just in Austin after a few months of rideshare fleet growth.
You also have Y capacity and can fleet those unsupervised
There is no reason to cut Cybertruck for at least a year or more if the reason is Cybercab capacity. There are other things Tesla can effectively do to leverage the in place ~$1.5b production line which produces a profitable vehicle today.
This isn’t the right move Elon. There’s enough Cybercabs on premises in every roadmap expansion city for the next 6 months without building another unit.
Pascal retweeted
All the big influencer accounts appear to be afraid to say anything negative about Tesla.
Afraid of being unfollowed. Afraid of losing reposts by Tesla and Elon. And afraid of not being invited to future events.
Stand up for what you believe in. You owe it to your followers and to yourself.
One day, it'll be the FSD subscription that gets canceled in order to prioritize the Robotaxi. Now is your time to hold people accountable.
Pascal retweeted
This is an engineers first principles being applied to a societal issue.
The average North American will not give up their personal autonomy for renting a Cybercab.
Pascal retweeted
“Being a loyal Tesla supporter doesn’t mean defending every decision Elon makes. Sometimes loyalty means speaking up when you believe the company is making a serious mistake.
We should be demanding better decisions, not inventing excuses to justify questionable ones.”
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Unpopular opinion!
To all Tesla fans and Cybertruck owners who are wholeheartedly defending Elon’s decision to discontinue the Cybertruck:
I’m a huge Tesla supporter, shareholder, and Cybertruck owner. My Cyberbeast is the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. I strongly believe in Tesla’s future, FSD, Optimus, and Cybercab. But that doesn’t mean I have to blindly agree with every decision Elon makes.
The argument that Tesla needs the Cybertruck production space and experienced workers to ramp up Cybercab production is understandable. But why are we pretending these are mutually exclusive goals?
Tesla has the land, capital, engineering talent, and manufacturing expertise to build additional production facilities. If the goal is eventually to produce 2 million Cybercabs annually, Tesla will need significantly more manufacturing capacity anyway.
But here’s what bothers me even more: Elon is effectively conceding America’s biggest vehicle segment, and one of its largest consumers of fossil fuels, to ICE manufacturers.
Think about that for a moment. Pickup trucks are deeply embedded in American culture and are essential working vehicles for millions of Americans. They aren’t going away because robotaxis become popular. If Tesla abandons this segment, Ford, GM, and Ram will happily continue selling millions of gasoline and diesel trucks.
How exactly does that advance Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy?
The Cybertruck was Tesla’s opportunity to disrupt one of the most profitable, fuel-consuming, and difficult-to-electrify segments of the American auto industry. Instead of improving the product, lowering costs, and expanding production, Tesla would be walking away from it entirely.
And please don’t tell me Tesla has no choice because it needs the factory space and workers for Cybercab. Tesla has built entire factories in record time. Surely a company capable of revolutionizing autonomous driving, robotics, and AI can figure out how to manufacture two different vehicles simultaneously.
Robotaxis will revolutionize transportation, but millions of Americans will still want to own their vehicles, especially pickup trucks.
Being a loyal Tesla supporter doesn’t mean defending every decision Elon makes. Sometimes loyalty means speaking up when you believe the company is making a serious mistake.
We should be demanding better decisions, not inventing excuses to justify questionable ones.
I support Elon and Tesla’s mission, but abandoning the pickup truck market to gasoline and diesel manufacturers while claiming to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy seems like a massive contradiction to me.
And I refuse to pretend otherwise just because Elon made the decision.
@elonmusk #Cybertruck
Pascal retweeted
Simon Zwahlen, Managing Director Central Europe bei Tesla, hat sich bei der Auto Zürich mit dem Schweizer Bundesrat, Alber Rösti getroffen. Ich hoffe das öffnet nun die Tore für eine tolle Zusammenarbeit zwischen Tesla und der Schweizer Politik, sowie einer baldigen Zulassung von TAD (Tesla Assisted Driving) in der Schweiz. Danke Simon und danke Bundesrat Rösti 👏🏻🇨🇭⚡️🤖
Fotos: Simon Zwahlen auf LinkedIn
Pascal retweeted
Elon: People need to have more babies!
Also Elon: We're making 2-seaters. You have to be 8.
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I’m 100% for a Robotaxi network but NOT at the cost of personal ownership of varying models. The reduction of products to 2 models, devoid of any capable of towing/hauling, is the alienation of an entire customer base.
Recreational use (towing boats, jet skis, etc) does not fit with an entire fleet of taxi-based products currently limited to 2 patrons.
To be clear, I’m not implying Tesla has publicly stated they are definitively sunsetting the concept of ownership, but the death of the Cybertruck certainly gives their current (and future) customers reason to believe it could happen.
Taxi services are not even an option for hundreds of thousands of members in the military as the vehicle is not capable of negotiating ID checks at entry control points. Hell, just yesterday I got an unrecoverable red-hands of death out running errands. FSD is not yet capable of 100% Unsupervised driving and anyone that speaks to the contrary is delusional.
The regulatory hurdles alone to cover the entire country puts the idea of a completely ride-hailing nation decades (yes, multiple decades) away.
Elon isn’t stupid, he knows this. Thus, they will continue to sell vehicles with steering wheel controls for years and years and years to come. But it is obvious where he wants to take the company.
The lack of varying products is where the lack of excitement comes from. And it’s valid.
Pascal retweeted
“Hey guys, we will give you your money back because we don’t want to make the product you want. Go back to your old gas car so we can launch a 2 seater anti-family cab in the cities over the next 5-10 years.”
The Cybertruck order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try to make as many as possible before shutting down the line in about 8 months, but will have to return deposits for a lot of people.
This is not a case of Cybertruck being unprofitable, as has been misreported by legacy media, but rather that the opportunity cost of the complexity of Cybertruck is vastly outweighed by the value of incremental Cybercab production.
Pascal retweeted
You said the future would be exciting, this is bullshit. Tesla has tens of billions in cash, build another factory. There's no need to provide engineering resources to CT. There's no lack of cash or land for expansion. There's just a complete lack of drive to address the truck market. I expected better of you as a shareholder.