Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is focusing back on companies as his term as a special government employee at DOGE is coming to an end.
After observing the Starship Flight 9 launch at Starbase, Texas, earlier this week, Musk is back talking about Tesla Robotaxis on his social media platform X.
Yesterday, Musk reiterated that the Tesla Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, is right on schedule, starting in June. According to a Bloomberg report, Tesla is aiming 12th June as the start of the Robotaxi service in Austin.
However, Elon Musk or any Tesla executive did not announce June 12th as the official launch date of the company’s Robotaxi service. In the most recent interview with CNBC, Musk said the Robotaxi service would start towards the end of June.
If Tesla was planning to launch the Robotaxi service on 12th June, the invites to the event would’ve already gone out by now. Musk also didn’t confirm a date in his yesterday’s X post. So, this might just be a rumor, not a confirmed date.
To launch the service in June and as early as the 12th, Tesla must have a ton of data from Tesla Robotaxis driving on Unsupervised FSD with no driver in cars. Musk confirmed that Tesla has been testing Robotaxis in Austin with anyone in the driver’s seat for the last several days. This provides Tesla the much-needed data and the number of incidents before offering the service to customers.
Musk wrote on X:
For the past several days, Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Y cars (no one in driver’s seat) on Austin public streets with no incidents.
Tesla will start the Robotaxi service with a batch of 10 to 20 vehcles in the start and gradually increase the number of cars up to 1,000 in Austin, Texas, before expanding to other cities, according to Musk.
Musk’s prediction didn’t stop at just the launch timeline of the Robotaxi service, though. He said that Teslas will start to deliver themselves to customers in June as well.
“Next month, first self-delivery from factory to customer,” he stated in his X post. This is even more interesting. The first time in the entire automobile history, a car will deliver itself from the factory to the customer’s location, fantastic.
Definitely, Elon Musk is referring to Giga Texas as Model Ys and Cybertrucks are already driving themselves from the assembly line to the outbound lot at this Tesla factory.
Since the new Model Ys perform better on FSD, Tesla will use them as Robotaxis and for self-delivery. FSD performance on the Cybertruck because of its unique geometry and large presence, is not on par with smaller Teslas. So, we might see a delay in the self-delivery of a Cybertruck.
In a reply to a Tesla fan on X, Musk also confirmed that the Robotaxi service will not be ‘invite only’. Anyone will be able to test the network (provided the capacity isn’t full due to the limited number of cars in the initial rollout phase).
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