Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down
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Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 8, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 5 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #10 of 29, reached on Nov 8, 17:09 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 17:24 UTC.
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Isn't Tesla trying to be SpaceX's vertically integrated robotics division? My gut feeling says they are trying to move out of the EV business as crazy as that may seem to us normals.
Cybercab seems to have had a very promising start, metrics are good. This seems far more of a political hate piece than one based on any data.
FSD that actually works and the massively popular in live markets robotaxi service are the obvious answer to “big-deal things that came after this CTO left” $2B cybertruck failure barely registers vs how impactful FSD has been on model Y / 3 sales. Tesla is supply constrained again, with multi-month waits for the…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 17:24 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
#10 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 8, 17:09 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 8, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (5 checks) since.
56 points and 17 comments; submitted by gumby on Nov 8, 2026.