Why Tesla's turn to robots has divided Wall Street

Robert Ferris - CNBC - 16/04
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is investing billions of dollars into autonomous cars and robots, a move that has its share of bulls as well as skeptics.

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In just a decade, Tesla grew its electric vehicle sales from 32,000 units to 1.8 million — making it, for most of that stretch, the world's largest seller of pure EVs. But while it was aggressively ramping up EV production, the company was also changing its mission.

In 2006, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla's purpose was to transition the world from fossil fuels to solar power a...
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