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 publish that he “requested what I believe is a crucial design change to the entrance, and further time permits us to point out off a number of different issues.”
Musk’s X publish 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 workforce was advised to “rework sure components of the automotive,” 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 rivalry.
A number 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 must be completely arduous core about headcount and price discount.” In what seemed like a menace, he added, “Whereas some on exec employees are taking this severely, most will not be but doing so.”
Tesla delivered almost seven % fewer automobiles 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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