“My forecasts Achieving full independent driving was in the past optimists-musk admitted to investors In 2023, “M -™ M”, which cried FSD. “He certainly has it. Many times. Indeed, Musk has a long history of making bizarre promises and unfulfilled forecasts about his companies” and this is a custom that seems difficult to break.
On Tesla Farming with investors in late April, apparently Elon Musk It sounded sad how he was forced to recognize the funeral 71 percent of immersion in profits. In the defensive and seemingly grabbing a positive spin among the tragic results, Musk promised something unbelievable: the car manufacturer will become a leading robotics company in the world, introducing “The nearest thing to heaven, we can get to earth. € (since then he doubled, stating that the demand for his work would be insatiableAnd at the beginning of this month he claimed that the robots would count in Tens of billions And be like “your own personal C-3PO or R2-D2, but even better.”)
On the conversation, despite refueling around the world of aging cars and A demand for cranterling at CyberlukMusk said that “Futura for Tesla is brighter than ever.” inexpensive AI powered works
Despite this, despite the fact that Musk has a long history of broken promises, investors seemed to placid down stories about the crushing market dominance for Tesla, not as a car company, which is today, but, as Robotics claims Behemoth Musk, it will soon happen.
Wired has examined the history of musk obligations for everything, from full driving, hyperloop, robotaksis and, yes, robots, in order to remember, his fans and investors, how the world’s reality in the world of Elona rarely fits rhetoric. Interestingly, Musk’s failure forecast for “Next Year” appears many times, but it has been consistently proven that it is wrong.
“My forecasts have quite good achievements,” Musk told Tesla staff in All Hands meeting in March. Here is a chronological view of this story.
19 years of broken promises
August 2006: False start
“”[Our] The long -term plan is to build a wide range of models, including family cars at an affordable price – wrote Elon Musk in Tesla secret plan Master Hosted on the Tesla website 19 years ago. “When someone buys Tesla Roadster,” he added: “They actually help pay for the development of a cheap family car.”
IN Main plan, divide twoWritten 10 years after the first plan, Musk repeated that although Tesla had not yet provided the promise in 2006, he was still planning to build a “underdeveloped car, in 2016 he arrived and left without a basic car. In January this year, Musk said that this – it –At last“Tesla began to produce an inexpensive model in the second half of 2025.
However, in April Reuters reported The fact that Tesla scored a inexpensive family car plans. Musk Posted to X that “reuters are lying (again)”, causing Reuters, which “[Musk] He did not identify any specific inaccuracies. ” Tesla Source said Reuters That instead of a long -known inexpensive family car, “Directorate Elon is ubiquitous in Robotaksi.”
August 2013: Hyperloop Hype
Although he was not directly the owner of any of the Hyperloop companies, v 58-page white paper entitled “Hyperloop Alfa”, Musk wrote “A new form of transport Open Source, which could revolutionize travel.” NO. Hyperloop was closed in 202310 years after the first time it was proposed – but even in 2022 musk Still promising that Hyperloop can go from Boston to Novel York – in less than half an hour.
The form of a magnetic levitation capsule (Maglev) in a steel steel tube on stilts, Hyperloop was described on the company’s website as “Ultra-Speed Preque Public Transport System, in which passengers travel by autonomous electric pods in 600 miles per hour. Documented by Electrek. Engineers from Tesla and SpaceX worked on Hyperloop for two years before the project Undertaken by other companies in 2017.