Elon Musk posted a post on the X platform today claiming that Tesla plans to launch a related “fully autonomous vehicle” – Robotaxi – on August 8.

According to the “Elon Musk Biography” previously written by Walter Issacson, Elon Musk claimed in the biography that Tesla will launch the next generation car before the end of 2024, and this Robotaxi will allegedly adopt a cyberpunk style design similar to the Cybertruck, IT The “early design drawings” of Robotaxi in the relevant biography attached are as follows:

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▲ Picture source Motor1, the same below

It said that this rendering combines clues from Walter Isaacson’s new book “The Biography of Elon Musk”. The book provides an “unprecedented” first-hand look at Tesla’s robotaxi, which will share its next-generation platform and production line with the $25,000 entry-level new car. In addition, the book also revealed that whether it is a robotaxi or an entry-level new car, they all adopt a futuristic design and are inspired by the Cybertruck.

According to the book, one afternoon in February this year, prototypes of the Robotaxi and entry-level new cars were unveiled for the first time at a design review meeting. Musk “likes these designs very much” and said bluntly that “when one of these cars flashes on a street corner, people will think they are seeing a creation from the future.”

Motor1 describes the vehicle in detail: It has similar lines to the Cybertruck, with a clean body and many straight, flat surfaces that will also help Tesla reduce production and assembly costs.

Tesla previewed the side view of its next-generation platform model at its shareholder meeting in the first half of this year. Musk also added that the car is not being “designed,” but is in the process of being “made.” In other words, we will soon see the production version of this model.

He said: that Tesla is developing two new models. The two new models will far surpass any products in the industry in terms of design and manufacturing technology. They will also be a big killer to bring Tesla to the next stage. It is expected that the two new models will The annual production capacity of this new model will exceed 5 million units.

▲ Picture source Tesla Live screenshot

He also revealed that the two cars will be mass-produced at Tesla’s Mexico Gigafactory first, and will be introduced to Tesla’s other factories around the world after successful mass production. It is worth mentioning that Tesla has previously talked about producing cheaper models at its Shanghai Gigafactory in China and exporting them to the global market.

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When Elon Musk was asked about his favorite Tesla car design, he said it was the next upcoming design, but he wasn’t able to talk about it.

Tesla reveals new model ahead of schedule
Tesla said the company’s current product lineup covers major ground transportation, including the Mode S / Y for the luxury car / SUV segment, the Model 3 for the midsize car market, the Tesla Semi, which focuses on the commercial vehicle segment, and the Cybertruck, an all-electric pickup truck.

The PPT shows that Tesla’s new self-driving cab Robotaxi is also on the agenda, but so far nothing has been revealed about this vehicle except its existence itself, which we don’t know about yet.

It will be “futuristic,” Elon Musk said. To confirm this, Tesla’s design chief added that the “advent of autonomous driving” is the future of transportation and that it will “fundamentally change the form of the car, the way it is used and the way the interior space is used”.

Elon Musk’s announcement that the company would develop a “very futuristic” Robotaxi at the Austin factory’s inauguration in April 2022 momentarily overshadowed the factory ceremony itself.

In fact, he said back in 2019 that he was “pretty sure” that Tesla would be able to offer self-driving cabs by 2020 and that there would be more than 1 million of them on the road by 2020, but apparently he missed the mark and Tesla hasn’t been able to do that so far.

He said at the time that Tesla’s self-driving cabs had no steering wheel, no pedals, and no human controls inside, and were only available in some markets due to regulatory issues.

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Viecha emphasized that the cost of manufacturing each Tesla electric vehicle is a key metric to focus on in the coming years, as it determines the company’s vehicle capacity as well as future growth. in 2017, Tesla’s cost to build each vehicle was $84,000. In recent quarters, the price per vehicle has dropped to $36,000. The price drop is not due to lower battery costs; rather, it is because Tesla is benefiting from better vehicle design, a faster manufacturing process, and a new factory design.

Viecha added that Tesla’s superfactory in Fremont, California, which accounts for about half of Tesla’s production, is not the right place to build cars, and that superfactories, including Shanghai and Berlin, require lower costs. Tesla’s profitability will go up as well.

The company hopes to continue this trajectory and push the cost boundaries of producing electric cars.

According to the Tesla executive, there have only been two major revolutions in manufacturing in the 120-year history of the auto industry. One was the advent of the Ford Model T, and the other was the “lean manufacturing” model created by Toyota in the 1970s.

“The electric vehicle architecture is so different from the internal combustion engine that it will allow for the third revolution in car manufacturing,” Viecha said.

The discussion then moved to Tesla’s Fully Automated Driving (FSD) software service. About 100,000 people are currently using “supervised” FSD on U.S. city streets, where drivers can intervene while driving. He predicted that, based on Tesla’s existing data, supervised FSD could be rolled out to all U.S. owners of Tesla by the end of this year.

Tesla FSD software

But he also stressed that it is “supervised autonomy” and that drivers still need to be aware or they could lose access to the service.

Faced with the controversy over FSD in the U.S., the executive hopes Tesla will gather more data from the intervention and roll out software updates to improve the system. He added that this iterative process will eventually allow Tesla to achieve full autonomy.

“We’re convinced that massive data collection and artificial intelligence is the only way to solve the problem, and that’s the way we’re going to go,” Viecha said.

Finally, he described the Model X and S as Tesla’s first-generation platforms. the Model 3 and Model Y are the second generation, and the robotaxi (driverless cab) platform will be the third. Tesla needs to offer cheaper cars before its company-operated self-driving cab service can be launched.

At Tesla’s first-quarter earnings meeting this year, Elon Musk confirmed that the company’s Robotaxi model will have a steering wheel or pedal-less design and is expected to be in mass production by 2024.

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