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Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that Tesla’s robot taxi event, which was scheduled for August, has been postponed until October. Reply He responded to a user’s post on X (his former Twitter account) saying, “I requested some significant changes to the front design. Now that I have some time, I can show you some other things.”
Musk’s X post: Bloomberg The report was published last week. On July 11, the magazine said that if the event was postponed, Tesla More time to create additional prototypesThe company communicated the delay internally, adding that its design team had been instructed to “rework certain elements of the vehicle,” which sounds like Musk’s instructions to redesign the front end.
The CEO said in early April that the company would unveil the Tesla Robotaxi on August 8. A teaser was released the same day. Reuters report Tesla has canceled production of its planned $25,000 lower-priced model (often referred to externally as the Model 2) to focus entirely on robot taxis. Musk said: Reuters He “lied” by not listing specific points.
A few weeks later, Tesla cut “more than 10%” of its then-140,000-plus workforce. Two weeks after news of the layoffs broke, the electric vehicle maker fired two senior executives and Musk warned staff that they “need to get serious about reducing headcount and cutting costs.” In what sounded like a threat, he added, “Some of our executives are taking this seriously, but the majority are not yet.”
Tesla will deliver approximately 7% fewer vehicles in the first half of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, and produced approximately 15% fewer vehicles in the second quarter.