Elon Musk said Tesla’s future will rely 80% on its robot project Optimus, not cars

Tesla boss Elon Musk said Monday that the company’s future isn’t tied to cars ￰0￱ just after releasing a new “master plan,” Elon said that 80% of Tesla’s value will come from Optimus, the humanoid robot project he first introduced in 2021. That’s a major change for a company that still doesn’t make a dollar from ￰1￱ statement, reported by Bloomberg, came as Tesla publicly acknowledged, for the first time, that robots are part of its core future ￰2￱ wrote on X, the social platform Elon, that: “We are building the products and services that bring AI into the physical ￰3￱ have been working tirelessly for nearly two decades to create the foundation for this technological renaissance through the development of electric vehicles, energy products and humanoid robots.” Optimus is still under construction, not ready for delivery, and years away from generating ￰4￱ that didn’t stop Elon from putting it at the center of Tesla’s valuation going ￰5￱ shifts attention from EV plans that fell short This new robot-first mindset came right after the release of Tesla’s latest master plan.

Elon’s first plan, released in 2006, focused on building an expensive electric sports car and using the profits to make cheaper ￰6￱ plan was actually ￰7￱ the second plan, published in 2016, still hasn’t been ￰8￱ promised electric trucks and buses, fully self-driving cars, and an autonomous ride-hailing ￰9￱ none of that exists in the real ￰10￱ Elon published a third plan in 2023, even he admitted it didn’t land. “Too complex for almost anyone to understand,” he ￰11￱ newest version is short, under 1,000 words, but it doesn’t give clear numbers or ￰12￱ that includes ￰13￱ in January, Elon said a “very rough guess” is that Tesla might be able to deliver Optimus robots to outside companies sometime in the second half of ￰14￱ without working prototypes or any business case, Elon keeps talking up the ￰15￱ the timing isn’t random.

Tesla’s car sales have been ￰16￱ vehicle deliveries dropped 13% in the first half of 2025, putting the company on track for its second yearly decline in a row. That’s the worst performance the electric car maker has seen in ￰17￱ sees Europe slump while Norway stays loyal While Tesla tries to refocus around robots, the company’s EV business in Europe is falling apart . Tesla’s vehicle sales in the region dropped 40% in July, and things got worse in ￰18￱ registrations in France were down 47%, and in Sweden they collapsed by 84%. Tesla’s shrinking sales come as more competitors, especially from China, pour into the ￰19￱ like BYD are selling cheaper electric models and taking large chunks of Tesla’s customer ￰20￱ other problem is Tesla’s own ￰21￱ have been waiting years for significant upgrades, and nothing new has really ￰22￱ top of that, Elon’s frequent political statements have drawn heavy criticism in Europe.

It’s not helping ￰23￱ not all markets are ￰24￱ Norway, Tesla is still on ￰25￱ country has basically gone full ￰26￱ August, 97% of all new cars sold were ￰27￱ came out as the top-selling brand in the country this year, and saw its sales jump 22% year over year that same ￰28￱ is giving Tesla some breathing room, and the company also saw a slight increase in sales in Spain and Portugal last month. Still, that isn’t enough to offset the crash in France, Sweden, and other major ￰29￱ has denied that the company is in trouble in ￰30￱ Tesla is clearly under pressure, and Elon’s robot dreams are now doubling as a distraction from poor numbers on the ￰31￱ $50 free to trade crypto when you sign up to Bybit now