Despite Elon Musk’s best efforts to pour all of Tesla’s resources into a boondoggle, Tesla’s executives, as detailed by Elon Musk’s biographer Walter Isaacson, managed to persuade the CEO to develop an affordable compact electric vehicle priced under $25,000. This vehicle could later transition into a robotaxi once regulations and software align with Musk’s vision.
According to Isaacson, one of the reasons that Tesla’s publicized sub-$25,000 compact electric vehicle, sometimes referred to as the Model 2, was delayed was because of Musk’s conviction that the car would be unnecessary in a world with millions of robotaxis.
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