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After its earnings announcements, Jim Cramer, America's ancient stockpicker and TV star, said Tesla Inc. ( NASDAQ: TSLA) stock was the only one of the Magnificent 7 he did not own. He added that earnings were hardly important. If they were, "the stock would be in the gutter because the electric vehicle business is in such bad shape." Then, Cramer added, "Tesla trades on Elon Musk's storytelling."

The following are live updates from Tesla's Q4 and FY 2025 earnings call. I will be updating this article in real time, so please keep refreshing the page to view the latest updates on this story. 16:25 CT - Good day to everyone, and welcome to another Tesla earnings call live blog. There's a lot to unpack from Tesla's Q4 and FY 2025 update letter, so I'm pretty sure this earnings call will be quite interesting.

Tesla Inc.'s ( NASDAQ: TSLA) share price pulled back 4.0% in the past week. The company reported a 46% drop in annual profit for 2025 but announced plans for $20 billion in capital spending. It also said it would end production of its flagship Model S and Model X vehicles. While it began operating "unsupervised" robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, the NHTSA is investigating reports of Tesla vehicles with automated systems running red lights and making dangerous lane changes.

Tesla beat Wall Street's expectations, but reported its first-ever decline in annual revenue and said profits fell by 46% last year, while revenue from car sales fell by 11% year-over-year in the last quarter. Executives largely shrugged off the headwinds, with Musk and other top employees reiterating in the analyst Q&A their belief that autonomous vehicles will shortly render traditional forms of transport obsolete.

You can still buy the vehicles as long as there are units to be sold, and Tesla promises to support them for as long as people have them. Once they're gone, though, they're gone for good, because Tesla is converting their production space in the company's Fremont factory into a space for the manufacturing of Optimus humanoid robots.

Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk said in an earnings call with investors today. Musk said the reasons for cancelling the vehicle programs was to make room at Tesla's Fremont factory for production of its Optimus humanoid robot. The Model S is Tesla's luxury sedan, first released in 2012, while the Model X was its SUV with gull-wing doors, introduced in 2015.

Tesla was told that if it couldn't resolve the deceptive marketing within those 60 days, the sales suspension would take effect. That would be bad for the automaker, as California is far and away its largest market in the US, albeit one that is shrinking each quarter. Having to suspend sales entirely in the state would be disastrous. Some had speculated that Tesla could change Autopilot's name to something less misleading, but the company chose a more drastic approach.

Elon Musk just took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and announced that Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot will be sold to the public by the end of next year. Musk is the master of unrealistic timetables, but this may be the nuttiest one yet. These are humanoid robots that are supposed to be able to do just about any task a human can do.

In a statement to Reuters, Tesla Germany stated that there has been no significant reduction in permanent staff at its Gigafactory in Grünheide compared with 2024, and that there are no plans to curb production or cut jobs at the facility. "Compared to 2024, there has been no significant reduction in the number of permanent staff. Nor are there any such plans.

More than three-quarters of Germans reject the idea of buying an electric car from the US manufacturer Tesla, according to a recent survey by the German Economic Institute (IW). Some 60% of respondents said buying a Tesla was "completely out of the question," while another 16% said they would "probably not" purchase a car from US tech billionaire Elon Musk's company, which saw sales fall by 13% worldwide in the first quarter of 2025, by 45% in Europe, and by 62% in Germany.

has shown that the stock has the ability to defy gravity, even though the underlying business may not be humming like it used to. Shareholders refuse to budge and are willing to back up the truck as long as Elon Musk has promises to make. It has so far proved all the bears wrong and has climbed well above its 2021 peak. Sales growth has slowed down considerably, and profits are in reverse.

The original deadline for providing data related to these incidents was set at January 19, with potential penalties up to $27,874 per day of being late, for a maximum of $139.4 million. But in part because the winter holidays cut into that time a little bit - and with Tesla being inundated with other investigation's requests into its self-driving tech's safety record - the automaker asked to extend the deadline. Evidently, its pleas fell on sympathetic ears: it now has until February 23 to make good.