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Squawk on the Street

CNBC Special: Tesla CEO Elon Musk 5/20/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, Business, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

CNBC’s David Faber sits down at Tesla HQ with CEO Elon Musk for a wide ranging conversation on self-driving, semiconductors, China, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tesla CEO Elon Musk dominates the headlines.

0:10.0

Today, he is shifting his focus back to the electric car making giant with the launch of the company's Robotaxi right here in Austin, Texas, next month.

0:19.0

I sat down with Musk for an exclusive interview. Here we're in the lobby of the Gigafactory here in Austin. Last time I was here was your annual meeting a couple of years ago, so thank you for having us back. Welcome back. You got a Robotaxie right behind you. Are you gonna have full autonomous on the roads of Austin at the end by the end of June? Yes. You are. What gives you

0:38.2

that confidence? We have cars driving 24-7 with drivers in the cars and we see

0:46.0

essentially no interventions. So we want to be very careful with the first

0:53.6

introduction of unsupertivisable self-driving meaning that the car is driving around with no one in it.

0:59.0

Right.

1:00.0

So we're going to be...

1:01.0

Well, yes, and sometimes no one in it at all.

1:04.0

Right.

1:05.0

It's going to pick someone up.

1:07.0

So the cars have to be incredibly safe.

1:10.0

So we're just being... We have thousands of cars that are being tested, which is creating

1:18.3

some strange situations where we just drive.

1:20.6

There's just a bizarre number of Tesla's driving past people's houses.

1:23.4

They're like, what's going on?

1:24.7

I think we even saw one last night coming from the airport.

1:26.9

Yeah, driving at night alone. So it looked very lonely. It's just a, it looks a little lonely. Yeah. So yeah, yeah, it's looking good for Orston next month. You know, some estimates have been that you're only going to have 10 to 12 of them on the road initially. I mean, it's going to be a very small amount. Is that correct? Yeah, yeah, for the first week. First week. How do you see it ramping up? Well, we'll have to see how well it does, but you know, it's prudent for us to start with a small number, confirm that things going well, and then scale it up proportionate to how well we see it's doing.

2:01.6

Right. And what's going to be a judge of how well it's doing?

2:03.6

I mean, are there any incidents, are there any interventions?

2:08.6

And, but we want to be, we want to, it deliberately take its slow.

2:14.6

We start with a thousand or ten thousand on day one, but I don think that would be prudent so we'll start with probably ten for a

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