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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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AI is drowning Wikipedia. Not only has it been trained with its content, but the AI ​​responses It’s stealing a lot of your traffic. As if that were not enough, in October of last year a competitor appeared, Grokipedia, created entirely with AI (and copied from Wikipedia itself). We now know that Elon Musk’s invention is attracting a new audience: other AIs. Source: Grokipedia. A few days ago, some tests carried out by The Guardian revealed that ChatGPT was using Grokipedia as a source in various queries and it is not the only chatbot that is citing it. According to The Vergereferences are appearing in other AI services such as those of Google, which cites it in Google Gemini, in the AI ​​summaries and the search engine’s AI mode. It has also been cited by Microsoft Copilot and, to a lesser extent, Perplexity and Claude. Volume. Speaking to The Verge, Glen Allsopp, head of SEO at Ahrefs, revealed that they did a test with more than 13 million queries and the result was that ChatGPT mentioned Grokipedia in more than 263,000 responses. Wikipedia continues to appear much more, with almost 3 million references, but taking into account that Grokipedia was born in October 2025, the volume of citations is quite large. ChatGPT’s favorite. Analysts from other SEO tools such as Semrush and Profound told The Verge that they have detected significant increases in the number of citations to Grokipedia and the majority come from ChatGPT. In the case of the rest of the chatbots, according to Ahrefs tests, Google cited Grokipedia in 6,800 Gemini responses and 567 AI summaries. Copilot named it in 7,700 responses and Perplexity only two. From the creator of MechaHitler. Wikipedia is collaboratively and transparently edited by humans, but Grokipedia is run by Grok, an AI that has had hallucinations in which I thought it was Elon Musk himselfhas published antisemitic messages, “MechaHitler” was proclaimed and recently it was in the news for help “undress” millions of women. As if that were not enough, an investigation revealed that in Grokipedia there are articles whose sources are directly neo-Nazi forums and conspiracy theory websites. The researchers warned that Grok was making his own editorial decisions, altering the focus on certain topics. That chatbots are using it as a reference is problematic, to say the least. OpenAI responds. Speaking to The Verge, an OpenAI spokesperson said that ChatGPT searches a “wide range of sources and points of view” and that users can judge their reliability for themselves. It also highlighted that they implement security filters to prevent links to potentially harmful content from appearing. In Xataka | AI is breaking one of the oldest economic paradigms in history: that cheap equals “bad” Image | Amparo Babiloni, with Wikipedia and Grokipedia logos

the end of an era for Elon Musk’s megarocket

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After a few eternal months of lights and shadowsSpaceX is ready to close a stage and move on to the next chapter. It’s launch Monday and the last Starship V2 is on the pad, stacked for takeoff. If all goes well, it will be a final test before the long-awaited debut of the Starship V3, the most powerful rocket in the world. Release date and time. The window for Starship’s eleventh test flight opens on Monday, October 13, at 18:15 CDT from Starbase, Texas. If there is a problem, SpaceX could delay the countdown by up to 75 minutes before delaying the launch by 24 hours. This time, the first takeoff attempt has favorable weather, with clear skies and light winds. Madrid, Spain (CEST, UTC+2): Tuesday, October 14 at 01:15 Mexico City, Mexico (CST, UTC−6): Monday, October 13 at 5:15 p.m. Buenos Aires, Argentina (ART, UTC-3): Monday, October 13 at 8:15 p.m. Bogotá, Colombia (COT, UTC-5): Monday, October 13 at 18:15 Lima, Peru (PET, UTC-5): Monday, October 13 at 18:15 Santiago, Chile (CLT, UTC-4): Monday the 13th at 20:15 Caracas, Venezuela (VET, UTC-4): Monday, October 13 at 7:15 p.m. How to see the flight live. As usual, SpaceX will broadcast the launch through their website and of your official X account. The broadcast will begin 30 minutes before takeoff. For those who want a multi-camera experience, channels like NASASpaceflight and Everyday Astronaut They will offer live coverage with their own cameras from near Starbase. And in Spanish, coverage of Space Frontier, Mission Control, Manuel Mazzanti either SpaceXStormamong others. Goodbye to a historic platform. In addition to the last flight of Starship V2this will be the last liftoff for launch pad 1a in its current configuration. The structure survived a first explosive takeoff that left a crater in the concrete, was reinforced with a water-cooled steel plate in the following ones, and went down in history by catching a Super Heavy booster for the first time on the fifth flight. It will now undergo a profound remodeling for the new generation of rockets. Farewell without landing. The protagonist of the mission will be the Super Heavy booster “Booster 15”, which has already flown and landed successfully on the eighth mission. Its objective is to test for the first time the landing sequence that future V3 thrusters will use, turning on 13 engines for initial braking, five to adjust its trajectory with greater redundancy and three to simulate a hovering flight over the Gulf of Mexico before saying goodbye with a splash. A Starship on the limit, again. Ship 38 has an even tighter schedule. On the one hand, it will repeat the feats of the previous flight, including the deployment of eight mock-ups of Starlink satellites and the restart of a Raptor engine in space. On the other hand, it will undergo stress tests even more aggressive than those of the previous flight. After the iconic image of Starship covered in rust upon her return on flight 10this time SpaceX has removed even more thermal tiles to see how many can be missing before the ship’s fuselage fails during reentry. The ship will also execute a banking maneuver in the final phase of the flight to test subsonic guidance algorithms, a step that will allow the ship to be aligned with the launch tower in future landing attempts (SpaceX plans to recover both the booster and the ship starting next year). The generational leap to V3. But as we said, the highlight of the flight is that it marks the end of a stage. The current version of the rocket has had a spotty track record. While the Super Heavy boosters have worked almost always, the ships suffered four consecutive explosions before Ship 37 was redeemed on Flight 10. Ship 38’s mission is to close this chapter with another success, courtesy of the small design changes that SpaceX has been introducing, as well as provide new data before SpaceX focuses entirely on the Starship V3, a beast that promises to increase the rocket’s low-orbit payload capacity from 35 to 100 tons. Starship’s reliability is key not only to Musk’s Martian dream, but also to NASA, which depends on the rocket to return to the Moon. While Doubts grow and alternatives like Jeff Bezos’s are being consideredan eleventh successful flight would be a blow to the table and a definitive push towards the new rocket era. As Elon Musk often says, no matter what happens, a spectacle is guaranteed. Image | SpaceX In Xataka | SpaceX has spoken out about the rusty Starship: now you know how to fix the ship’s biggest problem

Change Elon Musk’s ship for Jeff Bezos

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The narrative in Washington is that the race to return to the moon is being lost. While China advances with a firm step to put two astronauts on the lunar surface before 2030, the NASA Artemis program hangs from a thread. That thread is called Starship, and less and less involved trust that it is ready to take Americans to the surface of the moon. There is a plan B. A investigation The veteran space reporter Eric Berger reveals that NASA officials could have a plan B to comply with the White House slogan: return to the moon before China arrives for the first time. Given the distrust of Elon Musk, who said publicly that the moon seemed like a distraction and that his priority was Mars, despite the multimillionaire NASA contract that finances the development of Starship HLS, the solution seems to be the ship of its great rival: Jeff Bezos. All to a letter. To understand where this pressing American need to win the lunar race comes from, you have to go back in time. After the disaster of the Columbia space ferry in 2003, NASA focused on the Constellation program, which ended up deriving in the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft, whose development leads Boeing and Lockheed Martin. In addition to huge cost overruns and delays, these two vehicles have ended up costing NASA the headaches of an inefficient architecture to return to the moon. The Artemis III mission, scheduled with optimism by 2027, plans to launch four astronauts in a SLS rocket, take them to the lunar orbit in the Orion ship and then, to two of them, to the lunar surface in a starship HLS of Spacex. That NASA chose the Spacex Starship as the only option for Artemis III (and then Artemis IV) has ended up being its second big mistake. Even if it was the cheapest candidate and Spacex, he was already testing prototypes in flight, it is not the simplest ship to reach the moon: since he uses cryogenic fuel, which has to evaporate, he needs to refuel in orbit several times before embarking on his lunar trip. The revenge of Jeff Bezos. Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos aerospace company, denounced NASA at that time for having put all the eggs in the Starship basket. NASA also ended up hiring its Blue Moon ship, but for future Artemis V and VI missions. Now, after years seeing how Musk dominated the sector, Bezos has the opportunity to take revenge. Blue Origin could advance Spacex With a simpler lunar architecture: a modified version of its Aunaging module Blue Moon Mark 1, originally designed for load flights. The company would be adapting it to carry crew, taking advantage of everything learned in the development of its next -generation manned ship, the Blue Mooon Mark 2. It is 1969 again. The MK1 key is its simplicity: it would not require refueling in orbit, only send several MK1 to lower astronauts to the surface and then ascend again to meet with the Orion ship. It is an approach that, according to Blue Origin engineers, is feasible and could be executed before the decade ends. That is, before China reaches the moon. What the United States wins. It is actually the United States that has put this idea of ​​a lunar career against China in the collective imaginary. China has been playing long -term since it started throwing robots into the moon. But now that its date of sending astronauts is approaching, the US urgency is not accidental. The White House She is obsessed with winning Chinato the point of having vetoed Chinese citizens even at meetings for NASA zoom. He has also advanced the Artemis II mission to show that he is still in the game. He is NASA’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy, close to the government, who promotes the narrative: “We are going to win the Chinese on the moon.” At the same time, it’s not just a matter of pride. Settle permanently on the moon It is not just for glory, it is for the control of its resources. The first country to establish a functional base will have the pan by the handle. With Spacex Plan A accumulating doubts, Blue Origin’s proposal is presented as the alternative that NASA needs.

Two companies monopolize more than 50% of Elon Musk’s fortune. None of them is Tesla

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Elon Musk is again in the focus of technological news after Tesla’s proposal to offer a salary bonus 1 billion dollars To “motivate” the millionaire. While it is true that getting it will not be easy, that remuneration would be the key for Elon Musk to become the First billionaire in history. Before such a figure, many (Even Pope Leo XIV) They consider it excessive. However, Tesla has a weight of weight to offer that figure: the car manufacturer is no longer the main origin of Elon Musk’s fortune, which can see more interesting to put aside Tesla and dedicate her efforts to obtain greater benefits with Spacex, XAI, Starlink or Neuralink. A megaplan of 1 billion dollars. After Judicial cancellation of the 2018 Bono, valued at more than 56,000 million dollars (according to the value of the shares), Tesla has presented A new salary plan before the US stock and values ​​commission. To achieve such a fortune, the CEO must comply with a very demanding roadmap, which will be delivered in a staggered way as they are unlocking milestones over a decade. Most of these objectives now sound like science fiction, given the delicate Tesla’s commercial situationbut we must not undervalue Elon Musk’s ability. For example, to meet the conditions of its salary bonus, Musk must make Tesla sell 20 million additional vehicles and that the company reaches a stock capitalization of 8.5 billion dollars, starting from the current valuation of around 1 billion. In addition, you must deploy one million of autonomous robotaxis and of the Optimus robots with integrated Grok, multiplying by 24 the current benefits of the company. More tesla pastel. In reality, the remuneration of the salary bonus is carried out in the form of 423 million shares of Tesla, so that Elon Musk would expand its participation in Tesla from current 13% to 29%. This would allow Elon Musk to have More influence and power of veto on the Board of Directors. However, I would also turn Tesla back into the main FElon Musk’s income. At present, Tesla represents about 140,000 million of the almost 471,000 million that Musk treasures, according to the Millionaire index of Forbes. Tesla doesn’t shine as much as before. Such and as they highlight in CNBCalthough Tesla remains relevant in the proportion of Musk’s heritage, at this time the private companies of the millionaire are those that are experiencing a greater economic growththus winning greater prominence in his fortune. Musk’s estimated participation in Spacex is 42% and is already worth more than 168,000 million dollars, especially after New SpaceX assessment in 400,000 million dollars in its last round of investments. Up to the AI ​​train. In addition, XAI Holdings, the artificial intelligence startup that “bought“The social network X, reached an assessment of 80,000 million in March 2025. After some Additional investments of Musk, his startup of AI has been revalued up to 113,000 million dollars, according to I pointed Forbes. HE esteem that in the next financing rounds the company of AI that Grok develops It could exceed 200,000 million, of which Elon Musk controls 50%. Although in a minor average, Neuralink has also grown up to an assessment of 9,000 million dollars today, of which Elon Musk is a 51%holder. Together, the three main private companies in Musk would already exceed Tesla’s weight in the person’s fortune richer in the world. Tesla has put a price to become the gold mine that was: 1 billion dollars … if you get your goals, of course. In Xataka | The shocking thing is not that Elon Musk has lost 80,000 million dollars in 2025: others have earned 102.00 million Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore), Unspash (Anatoli Nicolae, Spacex)

Elon Musk’s brother

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A miracle … of technology. On Saturday night, more than 3,000 drones illuminated the Vatican’s sky to recreate the best known works of Miguel Ángel or Pope Francis’s affable face. But the real surprise was under the swarm of drones. The head of the show was Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother, who had the idea during a festival in the Nevada desert. A little context. As a culmination to the world encounter on human fraternity, the Vatican organized the Grace for the World eventwhich had a poster of stars such as Pharrell Williams, John Legend and Andrea Bocelli, who sang Duo with Karol G. The most commented of the night, in addition to that unexpected duet, was the synchronized flight of the 3,000 drones about the Basilica of San Pedro before 80,000 spectators. While the music sounded, the drones recreated with points of light “the creation of Adam”, which Miguel Ángel painted in the Sistine Chapel, or the “Piedad del Vaticano”, which Miguel Ángel Buonarroti carved in Marble 500 years ago. Nova Sky Stories. The company responsible for the show has as CEO and founder a man of unmistakable surname: Kimbal Musk. How is the brother’s brother who wants to take us to Mars ended, who says he felt the voice of God After trying the ayahuascaorganizing a light show for the Holy See? That is the best part of the story. Kimbal Musk with a Nova Sky Stories drone Kimbal founded Nova Sky Stories In 2022 when buying Intel Drone Light Shows, the Intel division for this type of shows. But he had the idea a year earlier during the “Free Burn” festival, which replaced Burning Man during the pandemic. It was there that an artist named Ralph Nauta used drones to recreate in the sky the effigy of the man who traditionally burns in Burning Man. What Kimbal witnessed, in your own words“He changed his life.” A year and a half of negotiations. Convinced of the potential of drones not as a simple substitute for fireworks, but as a new means to create large -scale art, Kimbal Musk approached the Vatican In early 2024, when Pope Francis still lived. After his death, the new Pope Leo XIV gave his blessing to continue with the event. A fleet of 9,000 drones. Like Elon Musk, Nova Sky Stories presumes a completely vertical ecosystem: they design and manufacture their own drones, and develop all software and firmware internally. This allows them an agility and problem solving capacity that, according to themselves, is unique in the sector. Although in the Vatican only 3,000 drones flew simultaneously, the company has an arsenal of more than 9,000. Each weighs 340 grams and can illuminate with a 24 -bit color depth. To orient, drones use satellite positioning technology “Real-Time Kinematics” that corrects real-time GPS data with centimeters accuracy. In a long -term show such as the Vatican, the drones are scheduled to return to their load bases, recharge and be replaced by others in the air, all without the public perceiving it. If a drone deviates from his route, he first tries to return to his position, then return to the base and, as a last resort, turn off your engine to fall to the ground. Substitutes of fireworks? The Vatican event confirms an upward trend: drones are replacing or complementing fireworks in mass events worldwide. From the Mega -spectacles in China to the most modest versions of the Malaga Fair or the Mercè festivities in Barcelona. They are safe, silent and reusable. But for Kimbal Musk the objective goes beyond simple substitution: “I do not idolize the technology. Idolate the result.” His mission is to consolidate drones as a legitimate artistic medium, capable of telling stories and, above all, of generating an emotional response: “If we can make the grandmother cry …”. Images | Elisabetta Piqué, x In Xataka | In full crisis of faith among young people, the Church has literally found a saint: the first Millennial Holy

China already thinks about strategies to neutralize Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites. Your plan: submarines and powerful lasers

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Chinese scientists have developed strategies to neutralize the Starlink Satellite Network of Elon Musk, which Beijing considers a military threat. According to the medium The Independentamong the proposed measures are furtive submarines equipped with spatial lasers, attack satellites with ionic propellants and sabotage of the supply chain. An analysis of 64 academic articles published in Chinese magazines reveals the concern of the Asian country for Spacex’s spatial domain. Why worries so much Starlink. The constellation of satellites carried out by Elon Musk controls two thirds of all active satellites in the world, with more than 8,000 operational units. Its ability to provide fast and cheap connectivity anywhere on the planet, including remote areas, makes it a strategic tool. Chinese researchers They fear that the United States will use it as a military weapon after checking its effectiveness in Ukraine, where facilitated the communications of the Ukrainian army and the control of combat drones. What China poses. Several Chinese researchers and scientists have proposed multiple approaches To counteract Starlink. Engineers of the Popular Liberation Army suggest creating a fleet of spy satellites that follow those of Musk, collecting signals and using corrosive materials to damage their batteries. Other researchers propose optical telescopes to monitor the network, generation of false objectives through Deepfakes and the use of powerful lasers to burn equipment. They have also identified vulnerabilities in the Spacex supply chain, which has more than 140 main suppliers. They will not only be countermeasted. Beijing is not limited to planning countermeasures: it is building its own alternative. In 2021 the Chinese state company created SATNET To develop Guowang, a military megaconstellation that already has 60 operational satellites of the 13,000 planned. In parallel, The Qianfan companysupported by the Shanghai government, has launched 90 satellites of the planned 15,000 and already competes for contracts in Brazil, Kazakhstan, Malaysia and several African countries. The geopolitical context. The Ukraine War marked a turning point in Starlink’s global perception. The conflict showed that the control of satellite communications can tip the balance. What worries China is that a single man like Musk can also interrupt critical services. The medium raises as an example that time in which the tycoon He denied his coverage For a Ukrainian counterattack in Crimea. This dependence on private actors He has not only alarmed Chinabut also to traditional allies of the United States such as the European Union, which invests billions in Your own Iris2 constellation. What comes now. The overwhelming domain of Starlink in space, which already operates in more than 140 countries and only has dead areas in North Korea, Iran and China, has triggered a undercover space race. While Amazon develops her Project Kuiper With just 78 satellites, China accelerate your programs To reduce Musk’s advantage. Interestingly, one of the papers of Chinese researchers simply had the following title: “Be careful with Starlink”. It is clear that space control will be an advantage for armed conflicts and commercial wars that are being released. Cover image | Spacex and Arthur Wang In Xataka | The US has realized how risky it is to continue pressing China. His reverse looks for a “face to face”

Elon Musk wants Elon Musk’s companies to finance Elon Musk’s AI with Elon Musk’s money

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Elon Musk is clear that his most immediate future passes, yes or yes, due to artificial intelligence. The eccentric magnate launched two years ago Xai After resorting, among others, the resources of Tesla and Spacex to raise funds. Much has rained since then. Elon Musk already has an AI model in the market, Grokand wants to continue growing to stand up to OpenAi, Google and company. For that he needs resources, and something else, but if something has the richest man in the world they are plenty of resources. So he has put the machinery in motion. -He Elon, can you give me money? – Of course, Elon. – Thank you, Elon. The billionaire has us accustomed to mobilizing Spacex resources to finance their movements. For example, Spacex gave him a loan of 20 million dollars to finance Tesla in its first measures. Also He used Spacex resources to finance The Boring Company And even asked $ 1,000 million to face the purchase of Twitter. Why use Spacex resources? Because it is his company, he founded it with 100 million dollars from his own pocket and is not a public company, Ergo is not participated and does not have to ask the investors permission. With Tesla, a company that is also CEO, the situation is different. Tesla is a public company and has a shareholders’ board that must approve the mobilization of resources. It is true that It is a Board of Shareholders faithful to Muskbut it is a process that cannot be skipped. However, in 2016 he used his Tesla actions to Buy Solar City Company of renewables of which Musk was maximum shareholder and Lyndon Rive, his cousin, the CEO. Inverters did not like it too muchby the way. More money. Knowing that, it will surprise us less than Spacex has approved Invest 2 billion dollars in XAI, the artificial intelligence company that Elon Musk is (surprise) founder and CEO. This investment is part of a capital collection of 5,000 million Announced by Morgan Stanley Last month. It is also the largest investment that Spacex has made in another company and the first in XAI (of which you have record, of course). Grok now has an anime avatar. This, specifically | Image: Xataka Android In the background. The reality is that these movements have the objectives to increase the capabilities and assessment of XAI, as well as allow their operations to be maintained. The latter will see that it is still complex. With regard to “artificially” the valuation of XAI, the most striking movement was undoubtedly The purchase of X by XAI. That increased the valuation of X to 33,000 million dollars and that of XAI to 80,000 million dollars, according to Musk. It is no accident that Grok is integrated into X, which recently to the Starlink customer service support and that Musk wants to use it as the basis for optimus robots. Everything revolves around Xai into the spearhead of his empire. But need more. Elon Musk wants to compete against Google, Openai and Anthropic. Your latest model, Grok 4has received excellent scores in the benchmarks, although its impact has not been the same as that of Chatgpt or Gemini. Beyond that, XAI has a small big problem: AI is expensive and spends money in abundance. XAI has spent billions of dollars in data centers (Some with 200,000 gpus nvidia hopper) And he intends to create a superordinate, Colossuswith a million GPUS Blackwell. The problem, of course, is to get between 50,000 and 62.5 billion dollars that would cost this transactionespecially after recent controversies with Grok. Not to mention that maintaining and developing Grok costs Xai about 1,000 million dollars per month. For us to get an idea, it is estimated that XAI will spend $ 13,000 million in 2025, but will only generate 500 million dollars in revenues. Cover image | Gage Skidmore edited by Xataka In Xataka | Elon Musk said the electricity network would begin to fail in 2025. For once, it has given in the nail with its prediction

Linda Yaccarino leaves Elon Musk’s network without clear relay

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Linda Yaccarino It has ceased to be the executive director of X. Executive Lor has announced In a message posted on the platform, where Elon Musk thanks the opportunity and claims to be proud of the “historical change of course” achieved in these two years. His resignation leaves the direction of one of the best known social networks and opens a new question in a company that has not stopped mutating since Musk bought it. A CEO to turn off fires. That was, in essence, the role that Linda Yaccarino assumed when Elon Musk placed it at the head of the company in May 2023. The advertising business had collapsedthe brands fled and Twitter’s reputation was minimal. Musk needed someone to return calm without stealing prominence, and chose an executive tanned in the world of media, with experience, contacts and good image. Your mission: Recover trust. Click to see the message of Linda Yaccarino in X From nbcuniversal to the jungle of X. For Yaccarino, the jump to X not only meant a company change: it was a change of ecosystem. He went from leading one of the most solid groups in the television industry to put a social network in crisis and an unpredictable owner. A position, many shadows. Yaccarino’s resignation comes months after one of the strangest movements of the Musk ecosystem: The sale of X to XAIits own artificial intelligence startup, in an unprecedented operation and loaded with opacity. In parallel, Musk intensified his presence in American politics, collaborating with the Trump administration and moving away, at least publicly, day to day in some of his companies. Tesla is no stranger to the earthquake: in recent months He has immersed himself in a difficult financial panorama. An output without successor (for the moment). At the moment there is no substitute. Not even a provisional name. The company has not made additional comments and Elon Musk, faithful to its style, has not clarified who will take over. It is a silence that weighs, especially in a company that has been trying to convince the market for years to remain viable. Images | Linda Yaccarino | https://x.com/ In Xataka | Technological ceos have perfected an absurd art: sound intelligent without saying absolutely nothing

Some Tesla employees requested Elon Musk’s dismissal in a public letter. The company responded with fulminating dismissals

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In recent months the situation of Tesla It has been complicated for a series of catastrophic misfortunes. Some of them were predictable, such as the punctual fall in sales before The renewal of its supervent model, the Model and. Others, on the other hand, have been entirely unexpected. As the reputational crisis that has collapsed the sales of the brand’s cars worldwide by the Elon Musk’s political implication and his role Doge front. The Tesla crisis not only manifested outside doors. The Sales fall And the growing discontent among employees have triggered an internal crisis between the template unprecedentedputting Elon Musk in the center of the hurricane. Employees They claimed Elon Musk’s departure of the company’s management. That petition has resulted in dismissals, but not that of his CEO. An unsustainable situation even for the template The internal tension reached its peak when a group of Employees from Tesla, both current and old, decided to publicly express their discontent with the management of the company. They did it through an open letter Published on the Web “Tesla Employees Against Elon”. In the publication, employees and small shareholders who had been part of the Tesla staff directly requested the departure of Elon Musk as the company’s CEO. “We are at a crossroads: continue with Elon as CEO of Tesla and face a greater decline as customers leave the brand, or advance without it and allow our products and mission to succeed or fail for themselves,” he explained in the workers’ statement. The signatories They pointed out that the damage Musk’s personal brand is “irreversible” and that his figure as the maximum representative of Tesla has become In a load for the entire template. Employees reproach their main manager His intention to “rename” In the Tesla direction, and they consider it “insulting” for being an explicit recognition that Tesla’s problems are the result of its neglect of functions at the head of the company. “Let’s be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon,” said the statement. More electric, but less Tesla While the electric vehicle market grows at a good pace, Tesla’s sale figures do not give signs of recovery. In Spain, the brand already registers falls of more than 16% and none of Tesla’s models appears among the 10 best -selling electric cars In Spain. According to data April of the Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (ANFAC) The electrified tourism market grew 79% last month, which represents a 6.5% sales increase with respect to the same period last year. The phenomenon is not limited to Spain. Reuters echoed the latest data from the global electric vehicle market, which in April had grown by 29% year -on -year, despite uncertainty for tariffs imposed by the US. The US electric car market also records upward values. The data of Cox Automotive indicate a Growth of 18.5% In the volume of new electric car sales month by month, while the Tesla market share fell five points to 42%. The data announced in its presentation of Results of the first 2025 quartercorroborated this downward trend. The manufacturer delivered 336,681 vehicles, which represented a 13% drop with respect to the same period of the previous year, when almost 387,000 units had been delivered. As the employees pointed out in their open letter, “this is not due to the fact that our cars have worsened. It is not due to affordability problems. But to the fact that people no longer want to associate with Elon. Production marches better than ever. Quality is high. Processes are solid. Demand is what fails. It is not a product problem. It is a Leadership problem“ Tesla’s response: layoffs Tesla’s address to the publication of the letter was immediate and forceful. According to published Business Insiderseveral critical employees with Musk They were fulminating. This manufacturer’s reaction has generated even more Fear and self -censorship Within the company, reviving accusations of repression and contradiction with speech “Absolutist of Freedom of Expression“That Musk itself defends publicly. One of the most prominent cases is that of Matthew Labrot, former responsibility of Sales and Delivery Training of Tesla, and one of the main drivers of the protest. Labrot declared in Business Insider Being a passionate defender of Tesla, but was fired in less than 24 hours after the open letter on the website and participating in the protest under the motto “Pro Tesla, Not Elon!”, whose Account in x It has been suspended. Despite having lost his job in Tesla, Labrot says that “I still believe firmly in the company and in the objective we pursue”, but maintains its critical position with the Musk’s negative influence in the company and in its public image. In Xataka | If the question is which car will not leave you lying on the road, the German experts are clear: the electric Image | Flickr (Gage Skidmore, Geoff Livingston)

Elon Musk’s ambitions were impossible to comply

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Tesla has presented results. And they have been so bad in this first quarter of 2025 that it would be necessary to travel four years ago to find similar figures. There are various reasons but Elon Musk’s ambitions and promises are having their direct consequences on the company. An entire life. Four years for Tesla is a whole life. The company has been growing at a devilish pace until last year. But 2024 already closed it with sales lower than the previous year despite do everything possible to avoid it. In the first quarter of 2025, the benefits have fallen to just over 400 million euros, 71% less that in the same period a year ago. You have to go back to 2021 to find such a low figure. The problem for the company is that, then, it sold one less car (the Cybertruck was just a promise) and still did not reach one million units sold. That is, going back four years for Tesla is to go back a long time because the company was very different. A 2025 to shake. The first three months of the company have been really bad. To the point that They would have lost money If not for the Sale of regulatory credits (The payment made by other companies to meet in the average emissions by submitting to the regulators under the same group). In the absence of knowing to what the update of Tesla Model and is directly affecting its sales, the truth is that the company is leaving huge falls in countries like Germany or Francethe ones that sell the most electric cars in Europe. In the German country, in fact, they reach 60% fall. At the same time, their actions have collapsed and right now they cost half that in December 2024. This future of the actions must be taken prudence since they are intimately linked to the figure of Elon Musk. In fact, despite the bad results, the confirmation of the company’s CEO to abandon part of its governmental tasks to focus on Tesla has raised its price by more than 10%. Musk. Will reduce your work in the United States government “significantly”. This has been the word used by Elon Musk to quantify the amount of hours he will stop using in front of Doge (the department that leads within the State) to dedicate it to Tesla. This task has been, for some investors, the reason why the company has shipwrecked in recent months. For others, such as The New York Timesit is evident that there is damage to the company’s image with the statements and gestures of Elon Musk. The anger of those who have promoted BYcots to the Company They have focused, above all, to highlight the attitude of their greatest shareholder. A low profile in the government can be understood as a longer time dedicated to Tesla or as a lower public exposure and, therefore, a less worn image. The first interested, in fact, It is Musk itself whose fortune depends largely on the future of Tesla. But not everything is political. It seems unquestionable that Tesla’s image is irremediably associated with the figure of Elon Musk. He Financial Times He came to qualify the owner of the company as “demolition ball.” But there are other edges that deserves to stand before accusing Musk’s political drift as the only guilty of the bad results. The model hangover and. Something that explains the low sales of Tesla is that Tesla Model and has been renewed in the first weeks of 2025. Several factors must be taken into account: The lines have had to be renewed, so production has been reduced. Until in a few months we will not know how many possible buyers were waiting for the update before formalizing the purchase. To sell the Tesla Model and in stock, great discounts and very attractive financing have been applied, greatly reducing the profit margin. In the coming months we will begin to see how much the update of Tesla Model is interested and in front of the competition. In 2024, Tesla sold 1.77 million cars in the sum of the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y. of them, 1.09 million were represented by the electric SUV despite the fact that it was already known that the car was going to be renewed. Any mishap that hurts Tesla Model sales and is, right now, a problem for the company since half of sales are from this car. A cybertruck that is failing. Another of Tesla’s great problems and, probably, its greatest commercial failure. He Tesla Cybertruck He promised to be a supervent. The volume of reservations I encouraged to think about the car in these terms. But After the first feversales have collapsed to the point that analysts talk about the company will only produce 55,000 units a yearcompared to 250,000 promised units. Tesla had the opportunity to Make your cybertruck an aspirational vehicleof low production and great benefit that will report benefits in brand image. However, he has starred Memes on social networks And above all, Review calls have been continuous for all kinds of reasons, damaging its value. To the point that the company already seeks a solution to place thousands of them in markets outside the United States. The car that never comes. At the same time, Tesla and Musk have been promising for years An electric car of $ 25,000. One that has been impossible for the company to sell. If we do not have an electric car of $ 25,000, it is simply because the company has not found a way to make it profitable. In recent months we have known that the alternative will be a kind of Tesla Model and in miniature. But the car should arrive as a more affordable option than the current SUV as it would touch $ 40,000, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the same terms it was expressed Reuters Recently and in … Read more

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