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Latest interview of Elon Musk well, I
Elon Musk
think Tesla is one of the most exciting companies in the world. You know, it's perhaps the most exciting but you know, Tesla and SpaceX let me say are the two most exciting companies. So we're, you know, we're obviously expanding production, we're making more cars, we're going to, you know, we're going to roll out Tesla full self driving which is really an AI driven car. So it's Tesla AI software that, that drives the car just by looking like a human does. So Tesla has the most advanced real world AI and hopefully it will be approved soon in Europe. We told by the authorities that March 20th it'll be approved in the Netherlands was what I was told. Hopefully that date remains the same. But I think people in Europe are going to be pretty blown away by how good the Tesla car AI is in being able to drive. So and I think this year really it will be the case that you, from a, for a technical standpoint you'll be able to fall asleep in the Tesla and wake up at your destination. So that's, that's very exciting. We've got the Optimus program which is going to be the first humanoid robot. And I think, you know, sometimes people say well what would that be useful? Like well who wouldn't want their own personal C3PO R2D2? But even better, you know, and you can think of like all the reasons like you know, do you want someone, do you need a robot to, you know, take care of your kids or walk the dog or, you know, take care of elderly parents or something like that, then Optimus can do those things. So, so that's very exciting. And yeah, we're going to be starting production of the Tesla Cyber Cab here at Gigi Texas. We have started production, I should say, but we'll go to scale production in April or start building production in April and have significant production towards the end of the year. And you know, if things go well, we would probably manufacture Cybercap in Europe as well and also manufacture Optimus in Europe. So we've got the Tesla semi coming out, so the Tesla heavy truck and that'll be going to Europe hopefully next year. There's so many things happening. It's a long list.
Interviewer
It's a long list to make it an exciting company.
Elon Musk
Yeah, battery cell production. We're going to start making battery cells at giga volume. We have the Tesla lithium refinery that started up in Texas and the Tesla nickel cathode refinery that's started up here in Austin. It's really, this year is a tremendous number of things. We've got five factories starting volume production this year, five major production lines. We look forward to extending that to Europe as well.
Interviewer
And I guess looking a little bit back, Tesla hasn't done anything less but really transforming a whole industry. I think without us taking that brave step or Tesla taking that brave step to electrify mobility, the industry wouldn't be where it is today. What would you want people to say about Tesla? Let's just say in 10 or 20 years from now.
Elon Musk
In 20. In 20 years, I'd say Tesla's got factories on the moon, actually. Basically I see, I see a very prosperous future for Tesla. It's difficult to predict anything in 20 years, but if you say like five years to 10 years, I could say Tesla has an extremely bright future. And I would say, like, hold on to your Tesla stock, you know, it's going to be worth a lot, I think, you know, that's, that's my, that's my bet.
Interviewer
Very cool. Coming back to the present, if you look, I mean, you're always very well informed. If you look to the European industry, especially to the automotive sector or even the German industry and automotive sector. And what do you, what do you think about it? What do you believe are the main reasons for their current state?
Elon Musk
Well, I think there's not been enough innovation in automation. Sorry. Automotive innovation has been relatively low. So the cars that are being produced are very much like the Cars that were produced five years ago, there's not, they're not big differences. You know, I've said for a long time really that the automotive industry, I said this for 20 plus years, needs to go towards electrification. And this would be true even without environmental concerns. So it's just an electric vehicle is a fundamentally better architecture than a gasoline combustion vehicle. It is much simpler, it is more efficient, it's quieter, there's no pollution within cities. So really all ground transport should be electric and I think all ships and eventually all planes should be electric. But the automotive industry has strongly resisted electrification. They've dragged their feet and they had to be pushed there by government. And then whenever they've had any opportunity to reduce the production of electric vehicles, they've done so. So this is just, it's not a good strategic. It's like doesn't, it doesn't make sense. And also making vehicles autonomous is critical. Like I think it was like 10 years ago I said that, you know, in the future, any vehicle that is not electric and autonomous, like if you're riding a vehicle, you have to drive yourself that is gasoline powered. It's going to be like riding a horse and using a flip phone. Which is to say that there's still some people somewhere that ride horses, but not zero horses. It's just rare. And some people somewhere are still using flip phones, but there's not many. You know, it's going to be a niche thing. So the future does not contain combustion vehicles and there will be very few vehicles that are not autonomous. The future is autonomous electric vehicles. Sure. And so if the automotive industry does not move in that direction, they will be left out.
Interviewer
So it doesn't really sound like we should or could even be learning much from the legacy automakers. I guess it really sounds like we should be focusing on us and what we believe the future looks like.
Elon Musk
Right? Yes. I mean there's. You can always learn something from some competitor, but the strategically they're just headed in the direction of the dinosaurs. So they're not headed for a good place. You know, dinosaurs are not around anymore. So they really. We certainly are going to. We're going in a very different path. Like you said, electric, autonomous is the obvious. To me it's been blindingly obvious for, you know, 20 years plus. So. But you know, you can't sometimes with what I found with competitors is in the automotive industry, it's not that they're going to steal our ideas. You know, you can't cram a good idea down their throat. Okay. Like, if you say like, you must take this good idea, it's like you're not going to steal our ideas. They won't even. We can't even force feed them our good ideas. That's been my experience. So we need to do what's logical, what's sensible. At Tesla, we're essentially creating the future. And it's a good future.
Interviewer
We are building the future. They just build cars.
Elon Musk
Yeah, it's a good future future with electric vehicles that don't emit poison gas. Literally that quiet, efficient and like I said, autonomous. The car instead of having to be stuck in traffic driving through, you know, busy roads. And you know, sometimes also people, sometimes they, you know, they may fall asleep or they may have a medical emergency. And then if you're driving yourself and you're on the Autobahn going super fast and you have like a seizure or heart attack or something, then you could die. But if the car is autonomous, it can take you to a hospital. In fact, this has actually happened many times with Tesla cars.
Interviewer
Really cool.
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Interviewer
So if we look at gigabillin specifically, six years ago, nearly we broke ground. Four years ago, we started production. I have a ton of memories. I know you have memories about it as well. What are the greatest memories? What do you tell people when they ask you about Giga Berlin and the people of Giga Berlin?
Elon Musk
Well, I mean, first of all, I'd like to say thank you very much to everyone that's helped build Giga Berlin. Thank you Andre, and thank you to the whole team because we've gotten an amazing factory built in a very short period of time and got into high volume production with good quality and good cost control. So I'm very proud of the, of Giga Berlin and all the people in it.
Interviewer
Thank you.
Elon Musk
Yeah, it's just, it's cool. I like the art too, you know, the art and that people have some fun, you know. So you know, like coming to work should be, you should look forward to it, you know. So you're coming to work with people that you enjoy working with. You're doing useful things, you're making things, you know. So I have a lot of respect for makers. Like you actually make something, you build something useful, build something useful that you know that people enjoy that like I'm a big fan of makers and you know, there's a lot of people who, I don't know, they like, they don't make things. I don't know, they just hang around. Yeah, they don't make things or they don't provide useful services. Whereas I like, I think I have huge respect for people who make things and provide useful services and it's an honest day's work, you know. So thank you.
Interviewer
I mean I don't know if you do have, but if you have a vision for Gigabylin, what would it be and what do you think would have to happen for it to become true?
Elon Musk
Yeah, I think ideally we would significantly expand production at Giga Berlin. So we would also do high volume production of battery cells, probably also the cathode, the anode, lithium. So there's become vertically integrated and you know, produce things like the Cybercab or Optimus and other products that Tesla will develop. So I think the exciting vision for the future of Gigabylin is massively expanding it to do many more projects.
Interviewer
Very cool. Do you have any advice for the team at Giga Berlin to basically work towards that vision?
Elon Musk
Well, things certainly get harder if there are sort of outside organizations that are pushing Tesla in the wrong direction. If there are outside organizations that are pushing Tesla in the wrong direction in Gabelin, it's difficult to say that then we would expand if we have to. You know, outside organization that's making things very difficult. I mean I'm just. This is the truth. Yeah, it is the truth. I mean we're not going to shut down the factory, but we're not going to expand it either, realistically.
Interviewer
So as I said, I have a bunch of questions. So I just turn my tablet around and then. Yeah, feel free to comment on them.
Elon Musk
Sure.
Interviewer
Hi Ellen. Which is Your favorite factory maybe Gigafor.
Elon Musk
Well, you know, a favorite factory is like saying, what's your favorite child? You know, it's not a fair question.
Interviewer
I know it's a question.
Elon Musk
You know, the thing is that I love factories, honestly, you know, I think a lot of people these days, you know, don't love factories or they haven't even been to a factory, you know, but whereas I've walked the line in, you know, every factory and I'm a big fan of factories. I love factories.
Interviewer
This is a great place to be.
Elon Musk
Yeah, it's like you make things that have good utility. People like love the product. Making a product, building a product people love is. That's great.
Interviewer
Makes you proud.
Elon Musk
So Gigabyte is an awesome factory. Yeah. So the vibe in there is cool. Like you walk around, you know, it's very clean. It's like it's quite beautiful inside and outside and people seem quite happy. And we're making cars and soon battery cells, hopefully many more things. Yeah.
Interviewer
Many things to be proud of.
Elon Musk
Yeah, yeah. It's a great factory.
Interviewer
It is.
Elon Musk
Yeah.
Interviewer
All right.
Elon Musk
I think it's one of the coolest factories in the world, really. Honestly.
Interviewer
Hey Elon, which is the next product
Elon Musk
we will be building here in Giga Berlin? Well, I think there's a lot of exciting possibilities for what the next product is that will be built in Giga Berlin. The, you know, we've started now spilling up production of the battery cell and we're going to be expanding production of the model Y, especially once we as we get approval for supervised full self driving. Then from a product, next major product standpoint I think most likely is the Tesla cybercad. But then there's also possibilities of Tesla Optimus and the Tesla semi heavy truck. So like Tesla has a lot of products coming out so there's a lot of potential. I think if things are looking good, I think we would expand gigabolin to whatever the most that we could, you
Interviewer
know, gigantic manufacturing side. We have a lot of space.
Elon Musk
Well, assuming that the, you know, authorities are supportive and the people are supportive, then we would expand to probably make it the biggest factory complex in Europe.
Interviewer
Very cool. That's a cool future.
Elon Musk
Yeah.
Interviewer
All right, then we have Akhil, he's got a interesting question.
Elon Musk
Hi Elon. So when do you realistically think we can have Optimus in the Gigafactory so we don't have to worry about ergonomics and stuff? Well, we have to be a little careful about that one. I don't want people to worry about their job, you know.
Interviewer
No.
Elon Musk
So I mean the honest answer for AI and robotics is long term working will be optional. Like long term, you know, which is 10 years from now or less. Work will be optional. Like if you want to work, you can, like kind of like if you grow vegetables, you can grow vegetables in your garden or you can get them from the store. It's optional to grow vegetables in your garden?
Interviewer
Yeah.
Elon Musk
But some people select to do it. It's extra work to grow your own vegetables. But it's, you know, people enjoy the process. That's going to be how work is in the future. It'll be like you can work if you want to.
Interviewer
Very cool.
Elon Musk
Yeah.
Interviewer
How can we make sure that the
Elon Musk
adoption of new technologies like Optimus reach
Interviewer
countries in the third world? I think it's an interesting question generally.
Elon Musk
Well, I think for Optimus we first have to succeed in making a useful robot. So this is a hard thing to solve. Nobody solved making a truly useful humanoid robot. And then you have to make it useful and you have to scale production. And it's an entirely new supply chain for Optimus. We've had to design the whole robot from physics first principles so that we, you know, we're designing the. Every motor, every gearbox or not a gearbox, every gear really. The hands are extremely difficult to design. To have a properly dexterous robot hand is very, very difficult. One of the hardest things to engineer. So it's, we actually first need to have at least one that is useful and then we can scale production. And at first the tasks will be pretty simple. That optimist is. And they will gradually get more sophisticated. I think eventually Optimus could do medical work like it could do be a doctor, be like, like do surgery. And there's long term potential for everyone in the world to have access to incredible medical care. Like better medical care than anyone receives today from humans. So I think long term luck optimists as a surgeon would be incredibly good, super competent and everyone in the world would get better medical care than anyone currently in the world. Guess.
Interviewer
Yeah.
Elon Musk
Hey Leon, what advice would you give young people for life? What advice would I give young people for life? Well, I would say one thing is to be, to err on the side of, of optimism, to be optimistic about the future. I think it's better to be, it's better to err on the side of being optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. Your quality of life will remain much better. So, so I would urge people to be excited about the future. I'm excited about the future. Like I'm confident the future will not be boring, let me put it that way. It's going to be very interesting. And, and I think it's like most likely to be great, you know, in terms of like general advice, I mean, I guess I advise people to like learn as much as possible. Read a lot of books, try a lot of things and I guess, you know, I mean, I guess enjoy life, just enjoy life. But like working is also part of enjoying life, you know. Totally.
Interviewer
So find a job that you can actually enjoy.
Elon Musk
Yeah. I think if people derive satisfaction from building things, then Tesla is an awesome place to be because we build things, we make useful products and that's a great thing.
Interviewer
What is the most inspiring moment in your life?
Elon Musk
You know, I guess when my kids were born that would be the most inspiring moment, you know, in terms of work stuff. I guess it's when we had the first production roadster at Tesla that was really, it was like hard to believe. Like we actually made a car that passed all of the regulatory requirements and you could actually go on the road with it legally. Yeah, because when we started out we didn't even know how to make a car. And you know, on the rocket side, the first time getting to orbit was, was a huge relief. Reusing, you know, getting the rocket to come back and land was very cool. The self driving stuff I think is pretty amazing.
Interviewer
It's amazing.
Elon Musk
Yeah. I think the first time somebody experiences self driving where they're just sitting there and the car takes them all the way from their home to their work and parks.
Interviewer
Yeah.
Elon Musk
It's mind blowing.
Interviewer
It is. I'm using it when I'm in the US all the time. It is a lot better than people can actually imagine.
Elon Musk
I think it's like magic. It is, yeah.
Interviewer
Well, cool then. I thank you so much for your time. Really good having you here and yeah, hopefully we see you soon in Berlin again and show you around what we have done since you visited us last time.
Elon Musk
Yeah. And once again to the people of Giga Berlin. Danke. Per Hatter Arweit. Danke.
Interviewer
Thank you Elon. Thanks for your time.
Elon Musk
Cool.
Interviewer
Very fun.
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Host: Astronaut Man
Guest: Elon Musk
Date: February 27, 2026
This lively interview features Elon Musk candidly sharing his vision for Tesla, updates on major products, and reflections on innovation, manufacturing, and the future of work. Speaking directly to his teams and fans, Musk discusses Tesla’s relentless advancement, addresses challenges and opportunities in the European automotive sector, and speculates about the future of AI and robotics—particularly Tesla's Optimus robot.
Tesla’s Expanding Impact
Tesla Full Self-Driving & AI
The Optimus Robot
Product Pipeline & Gigafactory Expansion
Tesla as a Catalyst
Automotive Industry’s Sluggish Innovation
Learning from Legacy Automakers
The Promise of Autonomy
Memories and Pride in Giga Berlin
Future Vision for Giga Berlin
On Choosing a Favorite Factory
Next Products at Giga Berlin
On Optimus in the Workplace
Challenges in Robotics
Advice for Young People
Most Inspiring Moments
On Self-Driving:
| Time | Topic / Segment | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 01:03 | Tesla’s current initiatives and product pipeline | | 02:20 | Full self-driving: technical readiness | | 04:00 | Gigafactory production & global scope | | 05:51 | European automotive industry reflections | | 06:56 | Electrification and autonomy: the future of vehicles | | 08:32 | Legacy automakers and strategic positioning | | 09:53 | Safety impact of autonomous vehicles | | 12:04 | Memories & culture at Giga Berlin | | 13:59 | Vision for Giga Berlin’s expansion | | 17:13 | Next products at Giga Berlin | | 18:56 | Long-term vision: work will be optional (Optimus) | | 20:00 | Challenges in making a useful humanoid robot | | 21:39 | Advice for young people | | 23:12 | Most inspiring moments in Musk’s life | | 24:07 | First experiences with Full Self-Driving |
This episode offers a deep dive into Musk’s philosophy and Tesla’s fast-evolving product roadmap, stressing optimism, continuous innovation, and making a positive impact. The conversation is punctuated by both technical detail and personal reflection, providing listeners with insights into the future of mobility, manufacturing, and robotics.