In all likelihood auto manufacturers won't really be responsible for replacing fossil fuel cars. Designing and building the cars is straightforward enough, they need continued leaps energy storage and infrastructure to make that change possible.

> Tesla now focusing more on developing self-driving vehicles than on pushing for huge growth in EV sales volume, which many investors had been counting on.

Oh, come on. Yes, Musk announced that Tesla would announce a self-driving car with no steering wheel in August 2024. Of course, he said that in 2016, in 2018, in 2020...[1]

Reality is that Tesla, while signed up for California DMV's autonomous vehicle test program, didn't report any miles driven last year.

[1] https://www.inverse.com/innovation/tesla-robo-taxi-elon-musk...

It actually says that they were attempting to gigacast their new vehicle as a single piece rather than three pieces, but that proved difficult so they are going back to gigacasting three separate pieces.

But your point stands: they are still gigacasting, just for now they are not doing the very ambitious "gigacast in a single bound" plan.