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Or the continued use of tele-operators for all of their humanoid robotics demos.

When it's not a human dancer in a robot suit.

They never talked about battery swap again because DC fast charging got fast enough to eliminate that hassle.

Meanwhile Chinese EV maker Nio has built over three thousand battery swap stations. We can speculate all we want about Tesla's motives, endlessly entertaining as that is, but the fundamental idea was sound.

I have nothing against the idea I just don't think they bothered even doing a real battery swap for the demo

They got about $300 million in extra regularory credits for that demo. The government shut the loophole in 2014 after it became obvious Tesla was faking it and no real Tesla drivers were benefiting.