Tesla Is Giving Up on the Car That Made It Famous

In the spring of 2026, Tesla sold a record number of cars, and kept about $1.40 of operating profit for every $100 of sales. Its deliveries had fallen two years in a row. Then it stopped making the car that made it famous, the Model S, and gave its factory space to robots. Even the CEO's pay package, worth up to $1 trillion, depends on a million robots and a million robotaxis. So why does the company that made the world want electric cars seem so eager to stop being a car company? CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:48 The Car That Changed Everything 2:00 The Price War 3:41 The Cybertruck Gamble 4:34 The Fans Who Walked Away 6:44 Record Sales, Vanishing Profit 8:03 Robots Over Cars 9:48 The Trillion-Dollar Bet 10:53 What Comes Next 11:39 Three Lessons From the Fall SOURCES & PHOTO CREDITS: see the pinned comment. Stock footage: Pexels and Pixabay. Some b-roll shots are AI-generated illustrations (no real people, products or events depicted). Narration is AI-generated. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (Static Motion, Lightless Dawn, Hidden Agenda, Despair and Triumph) This video is commentary and analysis for educational purposes. Downfall Desk is not affiliated with Tesla, Inc. #Tesla #ElectricCars #Business