- Tesla CEO Elon Musk says car maker Robotaxi will launch on October 10
- The new date means the reveal has been pushed back two months.
- Musk did not provide details about Robotaxi.
Tesla Robotaxi Launch originally scheduled for August 8 has been pushed back to October 10, CEO Elon Musk confirmed during the automaker’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday.
Musk announced the event earlier this year, but Bloomberg reported Earlier this month, the launch of the Robotaxi, expected to be an autonomous vehicle aimed at ride-sharing, will likely be delayed to give engineers more time to work on the prototype.
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Musk has not provided any details about the car since its announcement in April and remained vague on the earnings call.
He did not confirm whether the Robotaxi will have a steering wheel and pedals, removing these parts could extend the deployment timeline due to a more complicated regulatory approval process. The Verge General Motors subsidiary Cruise recently confirmed that it will discontinue its Origin EV, which lacks manual controls, for its ride-sharing service, opting instead for a rebadged version of the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EV.
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Musk has periodically talked about this idea. self-driving taxis generate revenue since 2019. At the time, Musk proposed that Tesla would provide an interface and support for owners, who would then rent out their cars as taxis, taking a 25% or 30% fee but leaving some money for the owner to generate income from their car.
Building a dedicated robotaxi is a bigger challenge than repurposing existing vehicles. Startup Arrival’s previous attempts to build an EV for Uber have gone nowhere, and Tesla will likely need a completely different and more sophisticated set of hardware because of its Full Self-Driving system. continue to attract scrutiny from regulators and won’t be a system that allows drivers to transfer full responsibility anytime soon. Although, if the reports prove true, the robotaxi project could improve the chances of eventually seeing Tesla’s $25,000 Electric Car to produce.
