Tesla is outwardly not able to reveal its “robotaxi” design subsequent month, and is as an alternative pushing the occasion to October, in line with Bloomberg News.
The firm reportedly wants extra time to construct the prototypes. It had been aiming for an August eight occasion. The firm didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Tesla shares fell greater than 6% following the report.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first teased the robotaxi occasion in April, on the identical day that Reuters reported the corporate was shelving plans for a brand new automobile constructed on a next-generation platform that may price round $25,000. Musk denied that report on his social media platform X.
Tesla had internally deliberate to construct the devoted robotaxi and the $25,000 automobile — sometimes called the Model 2 by followers and watchers of the corporate — on the identical platform. But Musk has waffled on the thought of constructing a brand new automobile with a steering wheel and pedals and as an alternative has favored going all-in on the robotaxi.
Just a couple of weeks after Musk introduced the robotaxi occasion, he slashed greater than 10% of Tesla’s world workforce and stated the corporate was going “balls to the wall for autonomy.”
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