Elon Musk hypes $30,000 Tesla self-driving Cybercab and larger Robovan at robotaxi event
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Musk also revealed plans to produce an autonomous, electric Robovan that can carry up to 20 people, or be used to transport goods. He said it will "solve for high density," transporting a sports team, for example.
He said the Cybercab and Robovan would employ inductive charging, meaning these autonomous vehicles could roll up to a station to recharge, with no plugging in required.
Tesla unveils its RoboVan at the We, Robot event on October 10, 2024.
Musk has spent years touting Tesla's work in autonomous cars and promising that they would hit the market. Along the way, he's repeatedly woven a fantastical vision for shareholders, setting and missing his own deadlines.
In 2015, Musk told shareholders that Tesla cars would achieve "full autonomy" within three years. They didn't. In 2016, Musk said a Tesla car would be able to make a cross-country drive without requiring any human intervention before the end of 2017. That never happened. And in 2019, on a call with institutional investors that would help him raise more than $2 billion, Musk said Tesla would have 1 million robotaxi-ready vehicles on the road in 2020, able to complete 100 hours of driving work per week each, making money for their owners.
In April this year, Musk was still telling investors autonomy is the company's future.
"If somebody doesn't believe Tesla's going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company," he said on a call with analysts. "We will, and we are."
At Thursday night's event, which he previously characterized as a "product launch," Musk welcomed attendees to the "party," and said they would be able to take test rides in the autonomous vehicles on location, in the closed environment of the movie studio lots.
It was Tesla's first product unveiling since the company first showed off the design for its Cybertruck in 2019. The angular steel pickup began shipping to customers in late 2023, and has been the subject of five voluntary recalls since then in the U.S.
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