{"id":220693,"date":"2025-08-22T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/did-elon-musk-just-kill-the-model-y-l-in-america"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:35:27","slug":"did-elon-musk-just-kill-the-model-y-l-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/did-elon-musk-just-kill-the-model-y-l-in-america","title":{"rendered":"Did Elon Musk Just KILL the Model Y L in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sUJb3mPohA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Questions to inspire discussion.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd16 Q: What is Tesla\u2019s vision for autonomous vehicles? A: Tesla is prioritizing a robo taxi future with Cybercab and potentially Robovan, likely to focus on producing robo vehicles over traditional cars in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Q: How does the Model Y L fit into Tesla\u2019s robotaxi plans? A: The Model Y L would be a good fit for the robo taxi network, offering a bigger car with more versatility that people want, even if they don\u2019t need the space, and would be a hot seller in the US market.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s Full Self-Driving Progress.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude80 Q: How close is Tesla to achieving full self-driving? A: With version 14 of FSD almost complete and version 15 likely to be the final needed version within a year, Tesla is expected to fully commit to the robo taxi future.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe2 Q: How has Tesla\u2019s leadership approached the robotaxi strategy? A: Tesla\u2019s executives previously resisted Elon Musk\u2019s push to bet the company on robo taxis, but are now likely to fully commit given the progress in FSD development.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/did-elon-musk-just-kill-the-model-y-l-in-america\">Continue reading \u201cDid Elon Musk Just KILL the Model Y L in America?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to inspire discussion. \ud83e\udd16 Q: What is Tesla\u2019s vision for autonomous vehicles? A: Tesla is prioritizing a robo taxi future with Cybercab and potentially Robovan, likely to focus on producing robo vehicles over traditional cars in the near future. \ud83d\udcca Q: How does the Model Y L fit into Tesla\u2019s robotaxi plans? A: The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2019,15,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-elon-musk","category-habitats","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}