Tesla is introducing a robotaxi on August 8, as has Elon Musk Announce On X in a few hours Reuters published a report stating that the automaker has canceled its plans to produce a low-cost electric car. Reuters He also said Musk's directive was to “go all in” on robotaxis built on the company's microvehicle platform. Tesla has been promising an affordable electric vehicle with prices expected to start in the $25,000s for years, and Musk said as recently as January of this year that he was optimistic the model would arrive in the second half of 2025. In response to the report, the Tesla chief said chirp That “Reuters is lying (again).”
He didn't clarify which part of the report was a lie, but given his assertion that Tesla would unveil a robotaxi, he likely meant the news organization's claim that the company had stopped making an affordable electric car. Currently, Tesla's cheapest car is the Model 3, but prices start at $39,000. It will be interesting to see how the company makes a camera-only robo-taxi, as it dropped radar and other sensors, which robo-taxi companies like Waymo widely use, from driver-assistance technology a few years ago.
Tesla Robotaxi unveiled on 8/8
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