Instead, the company focused on its best-selling SUV and sedan, the Model Y, and Model 3, while sales of the Model S and X dwindled. When reporting sales, Tesla lumps all of its premium models together in the "other models" category, and in the last quarter of 2025, it sold only 11,642 of these, a 51 percent year-over-year decrease.

The Model S deserved better than this.

Key Takeaways Elon Musk said Tesla would stop making the Model S sedan and Model X SUV later this year, freeing up factory space to make robots.The news for now means a smaller lineup of Tesla consumer vehicles—which Musk said was "part of our overall shift to an autonomous future.

Space in the EV-maker’s Fremont factory will be used to produce one million Optimus 3 robots annually, Musk says.

Tesla plans to scrap two models and invest $2bn in Elon Musk’s xAI, as the electric vehicle pioneer accelerates a charge into robotics and artificial intelligence following its first drop in annual revenue.

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.

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