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With less than 4 weeks left until Tesla officially unveils its hotly anticipated robotaxi, the cacophonous chatter around this new addition to Tesla's product portfolio has reached deafening decibels. Now, one Reddit user has potentially given us our very first, albeit heavily camouflaged, looks at the soon-to-be-unveiled robotaxi.
🔥🔥🔥 Tesla Robotaxi/CyberCab spotted with heavy camouflage during testing at Warner Bros. studio! pic.twitter.com/nr89KKcItn
— Tesla Newswire (@TeslaNewswire) September 13, 2024
To wit, Tesla has been driving a number of its vehicles around the Warner Bros. studio parking lot late at night, as per a number of posts on Reddit.
Now, one person who presumably works nearby and goes by the Reddit username of boopitysmopp has posted a picture of a heavily camouflaged vehicle that is being tested at the lot late at night, noting:
"They’re also testing a new vehicle that’s tiny but covered in all sorts of strange wrappings."
While there is no guarantee that the camouflaged vehicle is indeed the much-anticipated robotaxi, the test vehicle's profile certainly fits the proverbial bill.
As we noted at the beginning of this post, Tesla is gearing up to hold a dedicated robotaxi reveal event on the 10th of October. The EV giant had earlier pushed back the new model's unveiling from August presumably in a bid to give its engineers the time to build more prototypes.
Do note that the Tesla robotaxi is expected to share the same platform that the EV giant intends to leverage for rolling out its cheaper sub-$30,000 Model 2.
Bear in mind that Deutsche Bank now sees Tesla's fleet of robotaxi swelling to 1 million units by 2035, resulting in annual revenues of around $15 billion.
Meanwhile, Tesla recently revealed its FSD release roadmap for the next few months, announcing among other things the arrival of the FSD version 13 in October and the concurrent unlocking of the ability to reverse in FSD, and a Q1 2025 rollout of FSD in the EU and China.
Tesla shares are up ~10 percent over the past month. On an year-to-date basis, however, the stock is still down around 7 percent.
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