Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that Tesla’s August robotaxi event has been postponed to October. CEO he answered on X (formerly Twitter, that he has) to one user’s post, which said, “I think it required an important design change on the front end, and the extra time allows us to show a few other things.”
What does Musk’s X represent? Bloomberg reported last week. The publication claimed on July 11 that delaying the event would benefit Tesla more time to create additional prototypes. It added that the company had communicated the delay internally and that the design team had been instructed to “rework certain elements of the car,” which sounds like Musk’s order to change the front design.
The CEO said in early April that the company would On August 8, Tesla will present its Robotaxis. The teaser came that day Reuters informed it was Tesla pulling the plug on the planned $25,000 budget model (often referred to externally by accident Like Model 2) in favor of a full court push for robotaxis. Musk claimed Reuters he was “lying” without listing any specific point of contention.
A few weeks later Tesla Cut “more than 10 percent.” of the company’s more than 140,000 employees (at the time). Two weeks after news of the layoffs, the EV maker let go of two senior executives As Musk warned employees, “we have to be absolutely serious about reducing the number of accounts and reducing costs.” In what sounded like a threat, he added: “While some of the executives are taking it seriously, most are not yet.”
Tesla delivered about seven percent fewer cars in the first half of 2024 and produced about 15 percent less in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2023.
