Musk: Optimus and Cybercab Will Be Tesla's True Value
The Cars Are the Side Hustle Now: Musk's Trillion-Dollar Bet on Robots and Robotaxis Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan As the chief editor of tesladan.me, I have covered Elon Musk long enough to know that he does not say things by accident. Every few years he drops one of those sentences that quietly reframes the entire Tesla story — "the master plan," "the machine that builds the machine," "production hell." This weekend, on Sunday, October 17, 2026, he dropped another one, in a single post on X: "Optimus and Cybercab will be the vast majority of Tesla's value." Read that again. Not the Model Y — Tesla's best-selling car on Earth. Not the Semi, not the Roadster, not energy storage. The vast majority of the company's value, in Musk's own words, will come from a humanoid robot and a steering-wheel-free robotaxi that barely exist as businesses today. If you own a Tesla, are thinking about buying one, or h...
