The more I think about it, the less convinced I am that Tesla is canceling the Model S and Model X forever. I wouldn’t put it completely past the CEO, he’s a complete moron… but this may be just the nonsense that they pull from time to time at the end of quarters where they do some nonsense to goose sales, supercharged.

If you’re going to stop making the Model S and Model X for a while while you do a complete redesign (and use the factory for something else in the meantime) the best way to get as many sales as possible of these cars (that don’t sell in high numbers) in the shortest amount of time before you tear down the assembly lines is to say that they are being discontinued forever. You were already going to tear the lines down for the big redesigns anyway, but this way you get extra benefit. You can’t tell everyone that they’re being redesigned. That would kill the already low sales, Osborne style.

Then, everyone who really wants one will buy their “last” one. And they’ll grumble but they’ll also have five years of warranty and eight years of parts being available, which gives Tesla time to then dramatically decide to start making them again.

They could’ve just turned the lines off with no announcement, but they didn’t.

Who knows, I could be completely wrong about this!