Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in response to an X user’s post over the weekend that traditional automakers, including Volkswagen, must quickly switch to self-driving electric vehicles, otherwise they will be doomed sooner or later. German engineer and electric car enthusiast Alex Avoigt posted: "Grunitz, the Volkswagen board member responsible for research and development, claimed that the company could not make money on pure electric vehicles and slowed down the launch of new pure electric vehicle models.
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Grunitz said: ‘It’s important for us not to overwhelm customers by moving too quickly to electric vehicles. That’s why our internal combustion engine makes sense.’”
Avoigt’s post concluded: “With the new CEO. Under Bloom, things have gotten worse for Volkswagen. ”
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This isn’t the first time Musk has warned about the fate of traditional electric carmakers, who warned in an interaction with X users last month that traditional automakers were about to have their “Kodak moment” if they couldn’t accelerate their transition to electric vehicles. Just like the former film industry giant Kodak, it was eliminated because it could not keep up with the trend of the digital age.
Musk wrote at the time: "Unfortunately, this is a trend for many automakers. Some companies do understand it, but their pace of change remains slow."