Tesla CEO Elon Musk stunned attendees of the “We, Robot” tournament by way of presenting a untouched, sudden automobile: a passenger van.
After all, it was once some distance from a traditional van. The Tesla Robovan — Musk put the emphasis at the “bo” — appeared like one thing out of an Artwork Deco fever dream, with a swish train-engine like order and incorrect vision wheels. Musk stated that the automobile may elevate as much as 20 nation, or be worn to move items.
“The robovan is what’s gonna solve for high density,” he stated. “So if you want to take a sports team somewhere, or you’re looking to really get the cost of travel down to, I don’t know, 5-10, cents a mile, then you can use the robovan.”
The robovan is meant to for the corporate’s Tesla Community, an self sustaining ridehailing provider for purpose-built self-driving automobiles, in addition to Tesla consumers’ individually owned automobiles.
Tesla has dropped hints a few van sooner than. In its Master Plan Part Deux, the corporate stated it was once creating “high passenger-density urban transport” and in addition recommended that self sustaining buses might be deployed. And previous this era, Musk confirmed a picture of a cloaked van-shaped automobile as a part of the corporate’s annual shareholder assembly.
