Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to construct 5,000 Optimus bots this yr

Tesla is effectively behind the tempo wanted to satisfy its earlier said purpose of manufacturing at the very least 5,000 Optimus humanoid robots this yr, The Info reviews. Practically eight months into 2025, and the variety of bots Tesla has produced is just within the tons of, based on two sources. Which means Tesla will both have to step it up or push again the deadline. 

The information comes after Tesla reported a 12% decline in general income within the second quarter resulting from falling EV gross sales, much less money from regulatory credit, and a decline in photo voltaic and power storage gross sales. Through the Q2 earnings name earlier this week, Musk mentioned that Tesla would begin manufacturing on its newest Optimus 3 design by early subsequent yr. 

“We are going to scale Optimus manufacturing as quick as attainable and attempt to get to 1,000,000 models a yr as rapidly as attainable,” Musk mentioned. “We expect we will get there in lower than 5 years. That’s an inexpensive aspiration.”

Recall that Musk has made daring claims like this earlier than. Throughout Tesla’s 2019 Autonomy Day, Musk mentioned the corporate would have a fleet of 1,000,000 robotaxis on the highway by 2020. Two years later, he mentioned Tesla would mass-produce robotaxis by 2024. Neither of these projections has but come to move.