Tesla is introducing a robotaxi on August 8, Elon Musk has launched on X just a few hours after Reuters revealed a document that the automaker is scrapping its plans to manufacture a low-price EV. Reuters additionally acknowledged that Musk’s directive used to be to “trip all in” on robotaxis built on the firm’s tiny-automobile platform. Tesla has been promising a extra affordable EV with prices anticipated to originate at $25,000 for years, and Musk acknowledged as unprejudiced recently as this January that he’s optimistic the mannequin will come in the second half of of 2025. Based on the document, the Tesla chief tweeted that “Reuters is lying (again).”
He did not account for which segment of the document used to be a lie, nonetheless fascinated by he confirmed that Tesla is unveiling a robotaxi, he probably supposed the news organization’s claim that the firm pulled the crawl on a extra affordable EV. For the time being, Tesla’s most price-effective automobile is the Model 3, nonetheless its prices originate at $39,000. It ought to be appealing to detect how the firm will fabricate a robotaxi work with its camera-handiest machine — it dropped radar and assorted sensors, which robotaxi companies like Waymo bid broadly, from its driver aid technologies just a few years previously.
Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2024
