Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Robotaxi Delay

After several days of silence, Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Robotaxi Unveiling Has Been Postponed. The data leaked last Thursday through Bloombergbut the tycoon chose to remain silent on the matter.

It was true that Elon Musk did not deny the information being relayed through Tesla. Something that has now been ratified by the company’s own leader.

Tesla CEO responded via social media to a publication about the alleged reasons for the delay in the robotaxi presentation, although he did not directly refer to the data he received Bloombergexplained that they needed more time to complete the prototype—or prototypes—that would be shown.

“I requested what I thought was a major change in the front end design.”Elon Musk has revealed the obvious main reason for the delay in the presentation of Tesla robotaxis; and I add: “The extra time will allow us to show something else”.

While Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla’s robotaxi unveiling would be delayed, he did not provide any details on the dates. The tycoon announced that the self-driving car, which is based on the same platform as the apparently cancelled Model 2will be presented 8 August. However, the report Bloomberg what was known a few days ago indicated that it had been postponed until OctoberAccording to the above-mentioned media, the company needed more time to produce more prototypes of the electric vehicle.

Tesla robotaxi to be unveiled in October

Musk hasn’t said anything more about the matter yet. As for the Tesla robotaxi design tweaks, it’s unclear whether the changes the businessman requested for the front end are purely aesthetic or whether they are related to technical issues.

Elon Musk argues that Tesla should be viewed not as an electric car maker, but as an electric car maker. robotics and artificial intelligence company. Full autonomous driving is the great obsession of a businessman who has defied those who think otherwise. “If someone doesn’t believe that Tesla is going to solve the problem of autonomous driving, I don’t think they should be an investor in the company. But we will. And we are,” he said during the company’s Q1 2024 financial results presentation.

He also said they are in talks to license the fully autonomous driving software and hardware to other automakers. But Elon Musk also wants to create an Uber-style mobility service. and there Tesla robotaxis also plays an important role.

As published Electrek In April, Tesla pulled all funding for the Model 2 program and invested all his resources into robotaxi. It was even mentioned that the company canceled the Giga Texas expansion, where the low-cost car production line will be located, in order to install a data center there dedicated exclusively to autonomous vehicles. We’ll see when more official news comes out, but it seems that everything points to the fact that we won’t see the long-awaited robotaxi until October.