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Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots
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AdIn this articleTSLAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Model X is on display at a Tesla showroom on February 13, 2021 in Beijing, China.VCG | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesTesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the automaker is ending production of its Model S and X vehicles, and will use the factory in Fremont, California, to build Optimus humanoid robots.
“It’s time to basically bring the Model S and X programs to an end with an honorable discharge,” Musk said on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call.
Tesla’s far more popular models are the 3 and Y, which accounted for 97% of the company’s 1.59 million deliveries last year.
In its earnings announcement on Wednesday, Tesla reported its first annual revenue decline on record, with sales falling in three of the past four quarters.
Tesla is developing Optimus with the aim of someday selling it as a bipedal, intelligent robot capable of everything from factory work to babysitting.