Instead, the company focused on its best-selling SUV and sedan, the Model Y, and Model 3, while sales of the Model S and X dwindled. When reporting sales, Tesla lumps all of its premium models together in the "other models" category, and in the last quarter of 2025, it sold only 11,642 of these, a 51 percent year-over-year decrease.

One analyst estimates Tesla could ultimately make $25 billion a year by selling Optimus robots manufactured on former Model S and Model X production lines.

The Model S was “demoed” at the CES Nvidia booth (Tesla did not have a booth) in January of 2012 – about five months before production of the Model S started. I remember that the Model S was mobbed, overshadowing whatever separate PC graphics chip technology Nvidia was demoing.

Tesla is giving the Model S and Model X the ax. Recent sales figures help explain why.

It doesn't take long. Video shows Tesla Model S go head-to-head with Chevrolet Corvette in drag race — see who gets left behind first appeared on The Cool Down.

The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said this week that it would stop making the car, an electric pioneer in 2012, as well as the Model X.

Tesla stock jumps as Model S and X are retired, highlighting Musk’s pivot toward AI, robotics and autonomous driving.