Tesla ditches Model S and X for robots
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The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said this week that it would stop making the car, an electric pioneer in 2012, as well as the Model X.
Where once Tesla had the EV field in America mostly to itself, there is now increasingly stiff competition. By way of comparison, the Ford Edsel, a 1950s flop so notorious that it’s taught in business schools to this day, sold almost twice as well as the Cybertruck, in a country with half the population.
Telsa’s revenue and profits tumbled in the fourth quarter, capping off the most difficult year for the electric automaker since it became profitable six years ago.
Tesla has about half of the EV market wrapped up with just two models. How can an automaker succeed in the face of such a dominant pair?
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