Elon Musk is hinting at Tesla making greater electrical vehicles, however you shouldn’t maintain your breath because it’s not the primary time he stated that.
In the previous few hours, Musk responded to 2 followers on X, asking Tesla to construct greater autos to help bigger households.
Musk usually promotes the concept of getting greater households as he’s afraid of declining populations resulting from low beginning charges in some nations.
With the primary one, the CEO responded with a easy “OK,” and with the opposite, he elaborated a bit extra by referencing the not too long ago unveiled Tesla Robovan and “another issues”:
Musk seems to be hinting at Tesla’s work on a much bigger electrical automobile that has but to be unveiled.
Whereas fascinating, it’s arduous to present an excessive amount of weight to the remark, contemplating Musk claimed that Tesla has been engaged on a better passenger capability automobile for years.
A “excessive passenger-density city transport” automobile has been in Tesla’s official product roadmap since 2016 and has but to be unveiled, until you rely the Robovan unveiled final month, however that’s utterly connected to Tesla’s self-driving effort because the automobile has no steering wheel or pedals.
As a part of Tesla’s shift towards autonomous driving, the automaker has pulled again plans for a number of new electrical automobile applications in favor of these with none driver inputs, like Cybercab and Robotvan.
Musk has additionally mentioned the potential for Tesla making an electrical van on a number of events in the previous few years.
Tesla is anticipated to quickly unveil two new autos to be launch subsequent 12 months, however these are primarily based on the Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y and due to this fact, they aren’t more likely to be greater autos.
Electrek’s Take
Like most issues Elon says currently, it goes in my “I’ll imagine it once I see it” folder.
That stated, I believe an electrical van that may be configured for cargo, camper, or passenger, would make a ton of sense in Tesla’s automobile lineup.
After all, it’s more durable to get the greenlight for a automobile program like that in case your CEO is perpetually satisfied that the corporate is on the verge of reaching self-driving and making steering wheels out of date.
I’m extra of the opinion that Tesla ought to have performed it extra cautious and proceed engaged on rising its human-driveable EV lineup whereas engaged on self-driving.