Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab’
Tesla’s value drops $60bn after investors fail to hail self-driving ‘Cybercab’
Investors criticised lack of detail about the ‘robotaxi’ showcased by Elon Musk
Analysts criticise lack of detail about the ‘robotaxi’ showcased by CEO Elon Musk
Tesla shares fell nearly 9% on Friday, wiping about $60bn (£45bn) from the company’s value, after the long-awaited unveiling of its so-called robotaxi failed to excite investors.
Shares in the electric carmaker tumbled to $217 at market close following an event in Hollywood, where the chief executive, Elon Musk, revealed a much-hyped driverless vehicle. The stock price is down roughly 12% year-to-date.
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However, analysts said the event was short on detail and also expressed disappointment over a lack of specifics about other Tesla projects. Musk has a history of making grand projections about upcoming products and failing to follow through in the timeframe he has set, or at all.
It won't be $30k, it won't be full self driving, it won't be ready for production by by 2027, it won't replace all cars on the road by 2075.
It's shocking that people aren't calling him out on the fact that he also promised every Tesla on the road today would be capable of becoming a robotaxi, which was just an outrageous lie at the time and evidently they are no longer working towards making that plan a reality anymore if they're designing dedicated autonomous vehicles. Letting him pitch a new robotaxi idea feels like letting him get away not having to face any consequences for his blatant bullshit.
Here’s a list of every time he has promised (lied about) full self driving for literally more than a decade.
Musk is facing a LOT more practical scrutiny now that the cybertruck is an ongoing fiasco. People are rightfully wary of getting excited about a taxi that only seats two people. Anyone who’s been paying attention will also be suspicious of his claims that the taxi will actually cost under 30k, or that it will truly go into production “before 2027”.
I will admit that the van looks cool as hell. Of course, I still think Musk is a piece of human garbage, but I will give him that.
A two seater with lambo doors that look like they’ll immediately get sheared off by a passing truck that can’t see them. A laughable delivery timeline. And the “concept” bus looks like a Dustbuster that’ll get stuck in a pothole or on top of a speed bump with its current ground clearance. It’s almost like he’s deliberately trying to tank the stock making all this impractical shit.
Musk said the company would start building the fully autonomous “Cybercab” by 2026 at a price of less than $30,000, and showed off a van he claimed was capable of transporting 20 people around town autonomously – which he said would reshape cities by turning car parks into parks.
$30,000 for a fully autonomous bus?
The key risk for this whole bet Tesla is making is the software. I couldn't give two shits about their hardware plans, that will come and it's not the key challenge. Saying "we will have it next year" is just not good enough when you've said it before and ruined your credibility already. This event should not have happened until the software is ready to go, it's worth nothing without that.
Dude invented the city bus.
I just don't get why they still have him as CEO.
The man spends his time mostly on Twitter, driving it into the ground to simp for Trump. He's taken obscene amounts of money from it, while failing to offer the simplest of products from its roadmap a decade ago - an affordable electric car.
If they don't pivot in the next few years, they'll run the risk of Tesla being leapfrogged to market more than it already has, with an inferior product to practically everyone that enters the EV market.
I still fully maintain that Musk will push Tesla towards making a petrol-powered car within the next few years, so IMO the board needs to get rid before that becomes a thing.
Deport Elon to Mars
At least the robovan looks like a vehicle from a dystopian cyberpunk movie, and the bad guy cops (that are of course working for a private police firm) are being ready to burst out from it to try to arrest the good guys.
Especially the person in the background starting Elon's first public robotaxi-trip with a remote control didn't really help.
“And all transport will be fully autonomous within 50 years.”
Bro even cold fusion reactors have less estimation than that.
Market Cap of a company is sort of a meaningless number. As in, it's shares in existence times price per share, which is just another way of saying its the share price. If somebody were to sell $100 Billion worth of Tesla shares, the market price would plummet and he'd not get the $100 Billion the shares were originally worth.
Of course, a rule of thumb is that a company is worth 20 times it's annual profit, or its revenue. So, by that valuation, Tesla is worth 28 Billion dollars, or 25.5 Billion dollars if we go by revenue. (I'm surprised that both approaches lead to results so close to each other) Compare with a market cap of 682,47 billion, we can see that Tesla is ridiculously overvalued. So, I guess you should go and buy puts on Tesla. Or sell your shares if you have any.
For clarity, this means the stock is back to the price it was in September. I know car-man-bad but I get tired of these sensationalized articles that are only shared because they confirm that someone we like is bad actually
Ah, how I love good news on a Monday..
Tesla and Elon are one of the reasons why I don’t but individual stocks but I rather get indices… It’s just the lack of consistency and the fact a single person can make you lose money…
More like after Elon's failed performance at the Trump rally, foreign "investors" pulled their money from Tesla
Elon musk extended family will own the entire Mars facility production and open hell portal?
Finally, some good news!
Tesla is no longer a serious company, Elon's brand has gone from tarnished to trashed. TSLA might be holding on for dear life but ELON is a penny stock now
