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Tesla To Unveil 'Robotaxi' On 8 August: Elon Musk
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US electric carmaker Tesla will unveil its newest car 'robotaxi' in August this year.
In a post on X, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, announced that the 'Tesla Robotaxi' will be unveiled on 8 August.
"Tesla Robotaxi unveil on 8/8," Musk wrote on X.
Musk's announcement came on the same day that news agency Reuters reported that the company had canceled its plans to build a more affordably priced electric car, said to be in the range of $25,000.
Musk reportedly told employees that instead of building a mass-market EV, he wanted to focus completely on an autonomous vehicle that would make other vehicles obsolete.
However, in a post on X, the Tesla CEO denied that the company was planning to cancel the $25,000 car project and accused the news agency of lying.
Musk previously said that Tesla plans to unveil its next-gen electric vehicles toward the end of the year and launch production toward the end of 2025.
Tesla is currently building its new production systems for the next-generation at its Gigafactory Texas facility in Austin.
However, Musk did respond to a post, seemingly in agreement, suggesting that Tesla might have shifted focus on the “Robotaxi” rather than the “$25,000 car”.
Tesla has promised for years, but has not delivered, truly self-driving technology.
Tesla models with FSD (Full Self-Driving) "will be superhuman to such a degree that it will seem strange in the future that humans drove cars, even while exhausted and drunk!" Musk had said in a post on X in March.
Musk has also said that owners of Tesla vehicles with FSD will be able to have their cars serve as robotaxis, rather than remain idly parked.
Despite its potential, rollout of self-driving vehicles in the United States has been tentative and rocky so far as both regulators and the public voice safety concerns.
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