Tesla is going to make a new futuristic-looking electric vehicle as a ‘dedicated robotaxi’
Elon Musk announced that $Tesla(TSLA.US$ is going to build a new futuristic-looking electric vehicle as a “dedicated robotaxi” – though there’s no clear timeline for the new vehicle.
At Tesla’s Cyber Rodeo event tonight, Gigafactory Texas was the real star of the show.
CEO Elon Musk made clear that Tesla’s focus in the short term and in 2022 specifically is to scale operations to increase production capacity, and Giga Texas is going to be critical to make that happen.
But the CEO still made sure to get people excited about upcoming new products and said that 2023 is going to be the year for new vehicles with the Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, and new Roadster all entering production next year.
Musk even announced a new vehicle at the event: a dedicated robotaxi.
Now Musk is talking about Tesla building a new vehicle specifically for self-driving.
This has been a model adopted by other autonomous driving companies like Zoox. It allows more freedom in the design since the vehicle is never going to be driven by a human so a driver’s seat and controls are not required.
There also have been previous talks about $Tesla(TSLA.US$ building a self-driving vehicle to operate in The Boring Company’s tunnels. The company released the render seen above.
Musk didn’t offer a timeline on this new Tesla dedicated robotaxi, but it likely won’t be a priority until the automaker can fulfill its promise to the already tens of thousands of owners who bought its Full Self-Driving (FSD) package on existing vehicles.
At the event tonight, the CEO said that $Tesla(TSLA.US$ is aiming for everyone in North America who bought the FSD package to get access to the beta program.
At Tesla’s Cyber Rodeo event tonight, Gigafactory Texas was the real star of the show.
CEO Elon Musk made clear that Tesla’s focus in the short term and in 2022 specifically is to scale operations to increase production capacity, and Giga Texas is going to be critical to make that happen.
But the CEO still made sure to get people excited about upcoming new products and said that 2023 is going to be the year for new vehicles with the Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, and new Roadster all entering production next year.
Musk even announced a new vehicle at the event: a dedicated robotaxi.
Now Musk is talking about Tesla building a new vehicle specifically for self-driving.
This has been a model adopted by other autonomous driving companies like Zoox. It allows more freedom in the design since the vehicle is never going to be driven by a human so a driver’s seat and controls are not required.
There also have been previous talks about $Tesla(TSLA.US$ building a self-driving vehicle to operate in The Boring Company’s tunnels. The company released the render seen above.
Musk didn’t offer a timeline on this new Tesla dedicated robotaxi, but it likely won’t be a priority until the automaker can fulfill its promise to the already tens of thousands of owners who bought its Full Self-Driving (FSD) package on existing vehicles.
At the event tonight, the CEO said that $Tesla(TSLA.US$ is aiming for everyone in North America who bought the FSD package to get access to the beta program.
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Talklili : This marks that electric vehicles are going further and further in the driverless field. I believe Tesla can make good use of this.
TeslaSmurf : As long as they have such a massive demand for the cars they already produce (where they have almost a 30% gross margin) Tesla won’t aim to compete with the Chinese in lower value models. At the same time, with a new dedicated and self driving robotaxi that they probably won’t sell, they will conquer a world-wide lead in the shared-transportation system with very low operating cost (they produce the car and they won’t need to pay a driver). Then there is the Ai (which is the core of the whole FSD research and tuning) that will allow them to start the production of an autonomous-driving (like the car) humanoid robot capable of enchancing whatever kind of production and/or task, starting from Tesla’s needs. What a great (and so near) future !
The stock will go to Mars, of course, as soon as the plan is “digested” by the market, which won’t be immediately.