Tesla, Inc. is an American electric vehicle and clean energy company that designs and manufactures electric cars, battery energy storage systems, solar products, and related software. The company is a pioneer in over-the-air software updates, autonomous driving technology, and vertically integrated manufacturing for sustainable transportation and energy.
Think of the future transport system as a giant, city-wide brain. Instead of each car, bus, or train acting on its own, AI watches traffic, weather, demand, and incidents in real time and then orchestrates everything—routes, signals, pricing, and even maintenance—so people and goods move faster, safer, and cheaper.
Think of this as a super-smart lab assistant for battery scientists: it looks at huge amounts of test data from lithium-ion batteries and then suggests the best recipes and operating conditions to make batteries last longer, charge faster, and be safer—without having to run every experiment physically.
Think of Xpeng as trying to be the “Tesla of China plus robots.” They’re using advanced AI not just to make their electric cars drive themselves, but also to automate factories and build general‑purpose robots—reusing the same software brain across vehicles, robots, and other smart devices.
Think of this as putting a very smart co-pilot brain next to the traditional self-driving software. Classic autonomous driving systems are good at seeing and controlling the car, but they’re narrow and rigid. Large AI models add a ‘common sense’ layer that can understand complex road situations, follow natural-language instructions, and coordinate with humans and other systems more flexibly.