Elon Musk says it’s ‘pointless’ to build a human-driven $25,000 Tesla

Musk said the affordable EV would be “pointless” unless the car was fully autonomous.

When Reuters reported in April that Tesla had scrapped plans for a long-promised, next-generation $25,000 electric vehicle, the automaker’s stock plunged. Chief Executive Elon Musk rushed to respond on X, his social-media network.