Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced at a celebration marking the inauguration of a Texas factory that the company will construct a vehicle specifically for use as a robotaxi and that it will begin producing three new vehicles next year.
Musk didn’t reveal much about the robotaxi save that it will “look extremely futuristic,” according to Musk. He also stated that Tesla will begin producing the Cybertruck pickup next year at its new facility outside Austin, Texas. After that, he claimed, it will begin work on a new Roadster and an electric truck.
He made his remarks at Tesla’s new billion-dollar-plus factory’s “Cyber Rodeo at Giga Texas,” an invitation-only party for thousands of attendees.
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The exclusive celebration to commemorate the opening of the new facility in Travis County, which also acts as the company’s new headquarters following its relocation from California, was expected to draw up to 15,000 guests.
Musk said at a live-streamed event on YouTube on Thursday night that Tesla was delivering the first Model Y compact SUVs made at the new facility, which he claims can produce 500,000 of the SUVs per year.
This year, Musk added, the Austin factory, as well as a new one in Germany, would be scaled up. In addition, he stated that the corporation may begin developing a robot in 2023. “Next year there’s going to be a massive wave of new products,” he told the crowd Thursday night.
The firm is the world’s and the United States’ largest manufacturer of electric automobiles.
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