Elon Musk pushed back the launch of the Tesla Roadster. Again.
THE SO WHAT
The Roadster is now a narrative hedge, not a product timeline — every slip reinforces that Tesla’s real bandwidth is going into AI, robotics, and chips, not halo cars. If you’re benchmarking Tesla as an auto OEM competitor, you’re modeling the wrong company.
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