{"id":1063,"date":"2026-01-29T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/tesla-is-killing-off-its-model-s-and-x-cars-to-make-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T01:06:21","slug":"tesla-is-killing-off-its-model-s-and-x-cars-to-make-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/tesla-is-killing-off-its-model-s-and-x-cars-to-make-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla is killing off its Model S and X cars to make robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla will \u201cbasically stop the production\u201d of its Model S<\/a> and X<\/a> electric vehicles next quarter, CEO Elon Musk has announced<\/a> at the automaker\u2019s earnings call for the 2025 fiscal year. \u201cIt\u2019s time to bring the Model S and X program to a end with an honorable discharge, because we\u2019re really moving into a future that\u2019s based on autonomy,\u201d Musk said. You can still buy the vehicles as long as there are units to be sold, and Tesla promises to support them for as long as people have them. Once they\u2019re gone, though, they\u2019re gone for good, because Tesla is converting their production space in the company\u2019s Fremont factory into a space for the manufacturing of Optimus humanoid robots.<\/p>\n

Model S is Tesla\u2019s second vehicle and has been in production since 2012, while the Model X SUV has been in production since 2015. Their shine has faded over the years, however, and the newer Model 3 and Y now make up the bulk<\/a> of the company\u2019s sales. For the entirety of 2025,<\/a> for instance, Tesla delivered 1,585,279 Model 3 and Y vehicles but only sold 418,227 Model S and X units. The company also had to stop selling<\/a> Model S and X in China in mid-2025, because they were being imported from the US and were subject to China\u2019s tariffs that were put in place in response to US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on imported goods. <\/p>\n

In the call, Musk said that Tesla\u2019s long-term goal is to be able to manufacture 1 million Optimus robots in the current Model S and X production space. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland a few days ago, the CEO announced that Tesla will start selling Optimus<\/a> to the public by the end of next year. Musk has big plans for Optimus and once said<\/a> that it\u2019s bound to become the \u201cbiggest product of all time,\u201d bigger than cellphones, \u201cbigger than anything.\u201d But the humanoid robot has been failing to live up to the hype during demonstrations, and Musk is known for his overly optimistic timelines. <\/p>\n

The company\u2019s earnings report has also revealed that Tesla invested $2 billion in Musk\u2019s other company, xAI. Tesla\u2019s shareholders notably sued Musk in 2024<\/a> for starting xAI, which they argued is a direct competition to the automaker. The CEO has been claiming for years, after all, that Tesla is an AI company and not just an EV-maker. Still, Tesla\u2019s shareholders approved Musk\u2019s $1 trillion<\/a> pay package in late 2025 on the condition that the company reaches a market value of $8.5 trillion. <\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/transportation\/evs\/tesla-is-killing-off-its-model-s-and-x-cars-to-make-robots-010621101.html?src=rss<\/p>

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Tesla will \u201cbasically stop the production\u201d of its Model S and X electric vehicles next quarter, CEO Elon Musk has announced at the automaker\u2019s earnings call for the 2025 fiscal year. \u201cIt\u2019s time to bring the Model S and X program to a end with an honorable discharge, because we\u2019re really moving into a future that\u2019s based on autonomy,\u201d Musk said. You can still buy the vehicles as long as there are units to be sold, and Tesla promises to support them for as long as people have them. Once they\u2019re gone, though, they\u2019re gone for good, because Tesla is converting their production space in the company\u2019s Fremont factory into a space for the manufacturing of Optimus humanoid robots. Model S is Tesla\u2019s second vehicle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}