Elon Musk attended a party at the inauguration of the Tesla Motors plant in Austin, Texas, where 500,000 cars / year will be produced and where the investment was $ 1.1 billion. Musk has promised a futuristic-looking model that can be used as a self-driving taxi. It will probably materialize in a few years.
Tesla CybertruckPhoto: Burcz, Dreamstime.com
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The plant in Austin (Texas) is extremely important, it will produce 500,000 Model Y cars annually, and next year the production of the Cybertruck electric truck will start and the humanoid robot Optimus will also be assembled there.
The plant was built from scratch in less than two years.
Musk says it is the largest surface plant in the world. It will allow Tesla Motors, along with the new plant in Berlin, to deliver 1.5 million cars this year. The first quarter was very good, with 310,000 cars delivered. Tesla has plants in California as well as China.
Musk has now promised that Tesla will build a dedicated autonomous taxi (robotaxi, in English) that will look futuristic.
In 2019, Musk was talking about a “robot taxi service” to be launched in 2020, but this did not materialize.
Musk’s ambition is for cars to drive on their own, and a few years ago he launched the improved Autopilot option on Tesla models, so that cars can do more and more things on their own. There were also accidents and many cases in which the drivers forced the system and took their hands off the wheel, to see what maneuvers the car knows how to do, helped by high-tech software.
The premium package with many driving assistance options is called Full Self-Driving in the US, and paying drivers can test the latest features added to the software.
The package with these advanced driver assistance systems costs $ 12,000 and can be found on more than 60,000 cars in the United States.
Sources: Reuters, CNBC
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