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5,000 Optimus robots in 2025
“The normal internal plan calls for roughly 10,000 Optimus robots to be built this year. Will we succeed in …”
Elon Musk predicted a 10x Optimus production ramp every year by the end of 2030. It hasn't happened yet, with 1,539 days left.
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“If we aspire to an order of magnitude ramp per year, perhaps we only end up with a half order of magnitude per year. But that's the kind of growth that we're talking about.”
— Elon Musk · Jan 29, 2025 · Tesla Q4 2024 earnings call transcript (Motley Fool), Jan 29 2025 ↗
What actually happened
Fetched Oct 8 2026: Electrek (Sep 25), citing The Information, reports Optimus output at Fremont rose from a few dozen/week in Q2 small-batch testing to several hundred/week in August (~10x in months), targeting >1,000/week by year-end. Tesla has not published an official production rate. That is one intra-year jump from a tiny test baseline, not a scored year-over-year 10x production ramp (quote is an aspiration through 2030). Status stays pending. Electrek Sep 25 2026 (fetched Oct 8) — reported 10x from Q2 dozens/week to Aug hundreds/week; not a published annual 10x ramp ↗
The Progression
Jan 29, 2025
The promise: “If we aspire to an order of magnitude ramp per year, perhaps we only end up with a half order of magnitude per year. But that's the kind of growth that we're talking about.” · Tesla Q4 2024 earnings call transcript (Motley Fool), Jan 29 2025 ↗
Today · Oct 14, 2026
Status: Pending · 1,539 days left. Still waiting.
On Tesla's Q4 2024 earnings call in January 2025, Musk said the company aspired to ramp Optimus production by an order of magnitude per year, allowing that it might achieve 'half an order of magnitude' — still roughly threefold annual growth. The prediction is tracked against a 2030 deadline and remains pending.
Receipts
LAST CHECKED 2026-10-08- [TRANSCRIPT] Tesla Q4 2024 earnings call transcript (Motley Fool), Jan 29 2025
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