The company also says it will roll out its own fleet of autonomous FSD-driven robotaxis in Texas this summer
- Tesla says it will add some new, more affordable models to its range before the year’s end
- The automaker is apparently also rolling out a fleet of robotaxis in Texas in June
- Timelines promised by Tesla in the past have tended to be, erm, aggressive
Anyone familiar with the parable about the Boy Who Cried Wolf knows the moral of that story is if one tells enough fibs, eventually no one will believe them even when they’re telling the truth. Some like to think the alternate moral of that same story is simply never to tell the same lie twice.
According to statements made during a recent earnings call, these vehicles will utilize aspects of a next-gen platform, plus aspects of current platforms. The machines are apparently going to be produced on existing manufacturing lines.
While none of this sounds like the company’s prepping stripper versions of the previous-gen Model 3 and Model Y, it’s not something we can rule out. If that ends up being the case, Tesla stans should eat some serious crow after years of dunking on legacy automakers, since that was exactly the playbook employed by GM for rehashed leftovers like the Malibu Classic.
Meanwhile, the company says it plans to launch a fleet of autonomous robotaxis – a promise Musk has been making since the pre-Covid era – this June in Texas, using Tesla’s own vehicles and an unsupervised version of its so-called Full Self-Driving (FSD) hardware. Like everything else, details of this are predictably vague. Hey, is that a wolf?
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