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Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that Tesla’s robotaxi event scheduled for August has been delayed to October. The CEO on X (the former Twitter, ) to a user’s post that he “requested what I think is an important design change to the front, and extra time allows us to show off a few other things.”
Musk’s X post appears to echo what Bloomberg reported last week. The publication claimed on July 11 that delaying the event would give Tesla . It added that the company had communicated the delay internally and that the design team was told 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 . The teaser came on the same day Reuters that Tesla was (often casually referred to externally ) in favor of a full-court push for robotaxis. Musk claimed Reuters was “lying” without listing any specific points of contention.
A few weeks later, Tesla of the company’s over 140,000 personnel (at the time). Two weeks after word of the layoffs broke, the EV maker as Musk warned staff that “we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction.” In what sounded like a threat, he added, “While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”
Tesla delivered nearly seven percent fewer vehicles in the first half of 2024 and in the second quarter than in the same period in 2023.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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Musk’s X post appears to echo what Bloomberg reported last week. The publication claimed on July 11 that delaying the event would give Tesla . It added that the company had communicated the delay internally and that the design team was told 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 . The teaser came on the same day Reuters that Tesla was (often casually referred to externally ) in favor of a full-court push for robotaxis. Musk claimed Reuters was “lying” without listing any specific points of contention.
A few weeks later, Tesla of the company’s over 140,000 personnel (at the time). Two weeks after word of the layoffs broke, the EV maker as Musk warned staff that “we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction.” In what sounded like a threat, he added, “While some on exec staff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”
Tesla delivered nearly seven percent fewer vehicles in the first half of 2024 and in the second quarter than in the same period in 2023.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
Console Bang News!