Elon Musk admits ‘talking smack’ about Lidar

Hope King
2 min readFeb 1, 2021

Elon Musk on Clubhouse early Monday morning spoke on a variety of topics, including self-driving technology.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk broke Clubhouse Monday morning by appearing on the GOOD TIME show with Sriram Krishnan and Aarthi Ramamurthy.

This post is specifically about his comments related to Tesla and self-driving. He didn’t reveal too much new about Tesla. Here’s the main post with everything else he talked about.

Tesla stock price as of Feb. 1, 2021 4 am ET. (Hope King/Google)

Sriram Krishnan — We have a Tesla Model S outside. Where do you see the future of Tesla, especially all things technology, battery, and self-driving?

  • “The goal with Tesla has been to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy and in order to do that we gotta make a lot of cars, make them increasingly affordable and our rough target is to eventually make 20 million cars a year. [You’re] not moving the needle unless you’re changing 1% of existing fleet, that’s how we came up with 20 million.”
  • “We’re gonna try to grow car production as far as possible and the primary limiting factor is self production,” he said. “We’re gonna be building batteries ourselves. Our suppliers are great, we’re not trying to put them out of business, we’re trying to increase their capacity as well.”

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Hope King

Journalist covering jobs, labor, business, tech, culture, and racial equity. Former reporter at CNN and anchor at Cheddar.