Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that Tesla’s robotaxi occasion scheduled for August has been delayed to October. The CEO replied on X (the previous Twitter, which he owns) to a consumer’s submit that he “requested what I feel is a vital design change to the entrance, and further time permits us to point out off just a few different issues.”
Musk’s X submit seems to echo what Bloomberg reported final week. The publication claimed on July 11 that delaying the occasion would give Tesla more time to build additional prototypes. It added that the corporate had communicated the delay internally and that the design crew was advised to “rework sure parts of the automobile,” which appears like Musk’s order to alter the entrance design.
The CEO mentioned in early April that the corporate would unveil the Tesla Robotaxi on August 8. The teaser got here on the identical day Reuters reported that Tesla was pulling the plug on a planned $25,000 budget model (usually casually referred to externally as the Model 2) in favor of a full-court push for robotaxis. Musk claimed Reuters was “mendacity” with out itemizing any particular factors of competition.
A couple of weeks later, Tesla cut “more than 10 percent” of the corporate’s over 140,000 personnel (on the time). Two weeks after phrase of the layoffs broke, the EV maker let go of two senior executives as Musk warned employees that “we have to be completely exhausting core about headcount and price discount.” In what gave the impression of a risk, he added, “Whereas some on exec employees are taking this critically, most will not be but doing so.”
Tesla delivered practically seven p.c fewer autos within the first half of 2024 and produced nearly 15 percent fewer within the second quarter than in the identical interval in 2023.
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