Elon Musk said Tesla will take more time to make some design changes to the vehicles. However, Musk did not give a specific release date. In regular trading hours on Monday, the Tesla stock price surged nearly 7% in the morning.
On July 16, Caixin reported that Elon Musk finally responded to the delay of the Robotaxi unmanned rental car. He said that there were some design changes to be made to the vehicles, which would take more time. However, Musk did not give a specific release date.$Tesla (TSLA.US)$There were some design changes to be made to the vehicles, which would take more time. However, Musk did not give a specific release date.
Under repeated questioning from netizens, Musk responded on social media that "I am requiring some important design changes to the front of the Robotaxi, and the extra time gained from postponing the release date will give the company the opportunity to showcase some other things."
This also confirms previous reports by the media that Tesla postponed the release time of Robotaxi from August to October, and the design team was instructed to redesign some elements of this rental car.
In fact, Musk has revealed very little about his self-driving rental car. He only said that some vehicles would be owned and operated by Tesla, and other vehicles would be owned by individuals but rented out on Tesla's network, bringing generous returns to the car owners.
In addition, with some engineering and regulatory obstacles on the road to developing Robotaxi and self-driving systems, Wall Street analysts and Tesla investors pointed out that delaying the launch of Robotaxi was not surprising.
Meanwhile, Baidu's self-driving taxi project "Luobo Kuaipao", Alphabet's self-driving taxi project Waymo, and General Motors' Cruise have already taken the lead over Tesla.
In April of this year, Musk announced a "big news" that Robotaxi will be launched on August 8 this year. On the same day, media reported that Tesla had abandoned its low-cost car plan.
In regular trading hours on Monday, the Tesla stock price surged nearly 7%, but it was not because of the latest news about Robotaxi, but rather the "Trump transaction", and people hope that the Trump administration may make it easier for Tesla to obtain regulatory approval for Robotaxi and self-driving systems.
After the assassination incident over the weekend, Trump's probability of winning the 2024 presidential election increased significantly, and Musk donated to Trump in the hope of using his wealth to influence the 2024 US election.
Musk said he would fully support Trump without reservation and hopes Trump can recover soon. He also claimed that the last resilient US president was Theodore Roosevelt a hundred years ago.
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