Tesla Pushes Robotaxi Event From August to October: Report

Elon Musk made a astonishment announcement backmost successful April that Tesla would beryllium holding an lawsuit connected August 8 to speech astir the company’s plans for robotaxis. But anyone excited astir what Tesla mightiness unveil volition person to hold a mates much months. The robotaxi lawsuit is going to beryllium pushed until October, according to a caller study from Bloomberg.

The crushed for the hold is “to let teams moving connected the task much clip to physique further conveyance prototypes,” Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources “familiar with the decision.” Tesla did not respond to questions emailed Thursday, though that’s not a astonishment fixed the information that the carmaker dissolved its PR section successful 2020.

The robotaxi lawsuit was announced astatine a clip of peculiarly atrocious quality leaking from Tesla, arsenic Reuters reported successful April that Tesla was pivoting distant from producing a $25,000 vehicle. Musk wrote astatine the clip that Reuters didn’t person its facts close and instantly announced the aforesaid time determination would beryllium a robotaxi lawsuit successful the summer.

Musk has a agelong past of making splashy announcements aft atrocious quality breaks, an evident effort to distract from things that whitethorn impact Tesla’s banal price. Tesla’s banal fell 6% instantly aft the announcement that its robotaxi lawsuit would beryllium pushed to October, which came aft the anticipation for the robotaxi had contributed to an 11-day affirmative streak for the stock.

Musk has made tons of promises implicit the years astir robotaxis that ever look to beryllium conscionable astir the corner. The Tesla CEO has antecedently blamed regulatory challenges, though it’s not wide whether Tesla has produced a wholly autonomous conveyance yet.

“Functionality inactive looking bully for this year. Regulatory support is the large unknown,” Musk tweeted successful April 2020 astir Tesla’s robotaxis.

Nobody knows what to expect erstwhile the satellite yet gets a amended look astatine what Tesla has been moving on. But the robotaxi is presently successful the class of products that are inactive precise overmuch a enactment successful progress, akin to Tesla’s Optimus robot. Musk precocious insisted that Optimus volition 1 time babysit your kids. Needless to say, cipher thinks that’s going to beryllium happening anytime soon, astatine least, not by parents who emotion their children.