Remember when Elon Musk said the idea of building a $25,000 Tesla was absurd given that the future of driving was going to be autonomous? The future may still be autonomous, just not at the pace that Musk may have envisioned a couple of years ago when he effectively shelved the company’s plan to make a true cheap car.
The new report comes from Reuters, which cites both internal and external sources that indicate that the company has reached out to suppliers in order to build an affordable Tesla model. This shouldn’t feel like big news for a few reasons.
First, Ford is in the process of creating three different electric cars that are under $30,000. Second, the company is heading towards a third year of falling sales as competition increases and its new models have dwindled. Third, Tesla spent a couple of years talking about building it, only to abandon the project.
Why did Tesla abandon it? The company decided it wanted to skip ahead to something it deemed more important, which is a Tesla CyberCab. Musk was quite severe when talking about the $25,000 car that investors kept asking about, saying in an investor call:
So, I think we’ve made very clear that we’re — the future is autonomous. I mean, it’s going to be — I’ve actually said this many years ago, but that in my strong belief and I believe that is panning out to be true, very obvious retrospect is that the future is autonomous electric vehicles. And nonautonomous gasoline vehicles here will be like riding a horse and using a foot bone. It’s not that there are no horses.
Yes, there are some but they’re unusual. They’re niche. And so, everything is going to be electric autonomous. I think this is like it should be, frankly, blindingly obvious at this point, that is the future.
So, a lot of automotive companies, most of the companies have not internalized this, which is surprising because we’re shouting from the rooftops for such a long time.
That’s right, every other automaker is just too stupid to listen to Musk and should be building autonomous cars. He went on:
So, anyway, basically, I think having a regular 25K model is pointless. It would be silly. Like it would be completely at odds with what we believe.
That makes this section from the Reuters article hit a little different:
The Tesla employee declined to confirm or deny details of any specific vehicle but said, in general, the automaker now aims to build models that would be driverless but offer a human-driven option.While aiming for full autonomy across its lineup, the person said, Tesla realizes many global markets won’t see meaningful adoption – nor regulatory acceptance – of driverless vehicles for years. Preserving the option to build a particular model with or without driving controls could enable more sales and help ensure Tesla can keep its car factories running near capacity, the person said.
Reuters sources seem insistent that this isn’t just a de-contented Model 3 and Model Y, which was the company’s last cheap car proposal. Currently, the cheapest Tesla is the $36,990 Rear-Wheel Drive Model 3. That’s a lot of car for the money, but it’s way more expensive than the cheap Tesla that was originally envisioned.
The goal, according to these sources, is to build a car that’s smaller and more price-competitive with less-expensive vehicles in China, and it seems like that’s where the production will begin. Right now, the company is having to compete with popular cheap electric cars like the best-selling Geely Star Wish and BYD Seagull, which start around $10,000, or a third as much as the cheapest Model 3.
How can Tesla save money? Some concepts proposed in the article are a smaller battery, which would result in a shorter range but lower the cost of the most expensive part of most electric cars. Additionally, most of the cars it would compete with are single-motor vehicles.
This isn’t to say that Tesla has given up on autonomy, and it’s possible that even these cheaper cars get cameras so that they can eventually be equipped with some version of FSD. If you put rear seats (or front seats, I guess) in something that’s like the smaller CyberCab, then I think you’ve got something that could be an attractive and affordable option. Tesla is good at building electric cars at scale and, with lower sales, probably has some capacity to spare.
As with all things Tesla, none of this has been fully green-lit, according to the article. Musk can change his mind, and often does. He could go on his social platform and tell everyone this article is bunk, and that building a new car is like joining the lamp-lighter’s union.
I can’t wait for the next investor day later this month!
Source: Tesla
There’s nothing quite like a post about Tesla to bring all the crazies out.
The strongest argument against ever allowing fully autonomous cars is that Musk wants them.
Tesla’s thinking about a cheap autonomous car. Tesla’s building humanoid autonomous robots. Holy Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups! Why not bundle them as a product?
Here’s what they should do: teach the robots to drive the cars! Then bundle a robot with each car as a mandatory option! Tesla can lower the price of the car to $19,999 and bundle a $14,999 robot to drive it! The press will trumpet “Tesla releases sub-$20K car. Elon’s a genius!”
When the robot’s not driving, it can wash the car. And when it is driving, it can handle orders at the local drive-thru and hand out food to its passengers.
Think of the one-upsmanship in Silicon Valley:
“I drive an autonomous car.”
“Big deal, my autonomous robot drives my autonomous car. And washes my car. And feeds me Quarter Pounders. Double autonomy, dude!”
And feeds me Quarter Pounders.
It’s a robot so it could even “s#it” Quarter Pounders.
What you do with those turdburgers… well that’s up to you.
DOGE a bullet and ignore him.
Hmmmm, maybe the Robotaxi/Cybercab won’t be ready as soon as initially thought, so this is how they will use the capacity and put out a 4 seat compact car.
Elon Musk is a nazzi and you shouldn’t ever give him any of your money.
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Weird. That was supposed to be a thumbs up snd turned into a bunch of question marks. Any way F Musk
There’s no support for emojis in the comment section, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately). While limited, unicode works ☺︎
Elon Musk is a nazi and you shouldn’t ever give him any of your money.
I would kill for a cheap bare bones 2 seat coupe. Something I can get in and out of without hassle. With little to no sporting or luxury pretensions and enough hatch space to fit a weeks worth of camping gear or groceries for my wife and I. Like a sub 30k prelude. Or a two door Mitsubishi Mirage/versa/sentra. Something with b pillar to dash ratio long enough that I don’t feel like I’m cramming myself into a coffin. And enough headroom that I don’t have to take off my hat.
Look really what I want is an extended cab maverick with a 7’ bed but since that seems out of the question. I’ll take a coupe. Even if it’s a Tesla.
Slate
Not a coupe, tho – but its bed is 6″ longer than the Maverick. Of course, you’re down a pair of seats, since there’s no crew cab.
I’m hoping for my slate reservation. But I also still have my aptera reservation. And could probably track down my elio reservation email. Third times the charm. I’m cautiously optimistic
You have described the Toyota 86, mostly. Or a used Cayman. Or the very best Scion TC money can buy. You’d honestly like the TC, probably. Good with mods, but the TRD exhaust is absolutely insufferable.
I’m 6’4. I’ve tried every 86 brz that’s come out. If I could find an adult owned first gen I might risk putting some foamectomied Miata buckets or lowering brackets in it so I could see stop lights at intersections.
I’ve got my eye on two 1 owner scion TCs with less the 60k miles right now. Might pull the trigger. I dated a girl with a second gen and remember it was pretty ok.
But yeah the slate will probably be my next new car.
I still dream of a Slate liftback coupe. Something low with less frontal area, lower weight, etc.
Slate Truck is still the only new car that exists in my mind.
Feh!
“While aiming for full autonomy across its lineup, the person said, Tesla realizes many global markets won’t see meaningful adoption – nor regulatory acceptance – of driverless vehicles for years. ”
I’ve been thinking/saying that since it was announced that Tesla was gonna focus on autonomous vehicles instead of bringing out the $25K car.
Between this stupid decision and Musk’s stupid decision to get into Republican politics/hypocrisy, I dumped my Tesla shares as Musk started doing the politics thing and predicting that it would lead to a political backlash… not to mention the autonomous car thing being a financial flop.
Even if Tesla had a fully baked Autonomous vehicle (which they don’t), I still couldn’t buy one and LEGALLY take a nap in the back seat while the vehicle drove me to my destination.
Until the day comes where an autonomous vehicle can drive me home in rain or a snow storm without me having to be in the driver’s seat paying attention, the autonomous driving tech is a waste of time and money.
I’m better off taking a Taxi or taking public transit.
On top of that, Musk is flat out wrong in thinking that autonomous vehicles will lead to the end of people wanted to own their own vehicles.
With the state the current tech is in, the best application at the moment would be on set routes used by public transit and commercial vehicle vehicle operators.
Stuff like trains as well as buses that are driven on their own separate busways.
As for Tesla’s investment in the Cybercab, the best way they can salvage that investment is to make a version with proper driver controls and start selling it as the Tesla Model 3 Sport Coupe.
My Dad had an expression he would use to about people like Melonhead.
“I would not piss on the best part of him. Ever.”
About owning a Tesla, my dad would say “why not buy two? One to shit on, and one to cover it up with.”
Honestly that robocab fully beseated and besteeringwheeled wouldn’t be bad. If it came out at $25K with a $35K performance version I’d love a fast, fun, 2-doored, behatched, EV.
Riding a horse and using a “foot bone”? That’s either a very oblique way of referring to walking or he perhaps actually said, anachronistically, using a flip phone?
I caught this too. If like to think he meant walking because then his whole argument falls apart and it’s more interesting. Walking is still the dominant way of getting places. This implies a world where everyone goes from an autonomous vehicle to a scooter, then some kind of Wall-E style wheelchair that wheels them up to a desk, if they go anywhere at all. Then they look at their officemate get up for a cup of coffee and think, “oh he’s so quaint.”
He’d be excoriated as a Luddite and dismissed for being “old” when a sensible person who likes to engage with the world and isn’t terminally lazy can be any age.
This implies a world where everyone goes from an autonomous vehicle to a scooter, then some kind of Wall-E style wheelchair that wheels them up to a desk, if they go anywhere at all. Then they look at their officemate get up for a cup of coffee and think, “oh he’s so quaint.”
Unfortunately the solution to THAT would not be to encourage actual exercise but ridiculously expensive full body muscle stimulator suits, of which the most effective part being the oversized aggressively motivational logos. Basically electrified athleasure.
I could have driven myself mad wondering what in the absolute hell was trying to be said by “foot bone” in this context. It’s like the weird shit a weird kid says that has only the most tangential relationship with semantic or syntactic meaning. It’s not a puzzle, joke, riddle, statement, interrogative, declaration, or anything at all. It’s a tiny little word (side) salad all its own.
Don’t overthink this. It’s just the Ketamine talking.
I think you’re right, it’s supposed to be flip phone. Maybe the recording the journalist made wasn’t intelligible when it was played back in order to write the article. I can imagine the writer listening to it over and over. “Sno-cone? Endzone? Rigatoni? Foot bone, that’s it!”
The recording was probably fine. This is an artifact of “AI CAN DO EVERYTHING” being used in place of a human who can discern actual words while transcribing.
Oddly, the only client I have who owns a Tesla is also the only person I know still has a flip phone. But, he is Amish, to be fair
Elon destroyed the reputation of this company, and it’s amazing to see little to no momentum to oust him. The Venn diagram of people who like DOGE and like EVs has a miniscule overlap, but don’t worry, he’s going to build billions of AI robots any day now
Hand-picked board. They play games with shares and dilution, too.
Right. His robuts will be his only true friends knowing they are not after his money. Yes I said robuts.
Robutts? Is that how everyone has been getting great lift without spending endless hours in the gym?
I can’t remember if I wrote this here, or at Ye Olde German Lighting Site, but the fact is that Tesla has been so grossly overvalued for so long that keeping Musk at the helm is actually in the shareholders’ financial interests.
Because the thing is, a Tesla without Musk in charge, with a realistic valuation based on earnings and expenditures, is probably worth far less than what most major/institutional shareholders paid for their shares.
They’d probably lose billions if Musk was no longer CEO.
Instead, WE lose billions letting the archetypal Business Idiot slosh around.
I forget the exact number but due the extra voting power of his shares it takes something like 80% of other shareholders to vote him out. He learned from being fired as CEO from Paypal even though he was the largest shareholder.
It was the CEO that came after Musk that grew Paypal, took it public, and then sold it to eBay – making Musk very rich and giving him money to buy into Tesla.
I believe in the “conspiracy” that this information was seeded out there for stock price purposes. It’s always stock price manipulation with these assholes.
Related to that, I was discussing this with my brother and I recall reading that to buy Twitter, Musk personally went into debt… using his Tesla stock as colateral.
And what THAT means is Musk is DESPERATE to not let the Tesla shares fall below a certain level… because if it does, it means his debtors will come calling and expect repayment of an amount of money that he doesn’t have on hand.
And in watching the trading of the shares, I do have a strong suspicion that Musk is using 3rd parties to help him prop up Tesla shares.
But that can only go on for so long. It would normally work out fine if the company was still growing and he was continuing to make good decisions.
But neither is the case anymore and hasn’t been for a while.
Musk’s last really good idea was probably the Tesla Model Y… and that was a pre-Covid idea.
It would be delicious if he ended up like William Crapo Durant.
If he thinks something is a bad idea, that means it would probably be the most successful thing Tesla has ever built.
There would’ve been a cheaper Model Y with a smaller battery if he hadn’t complained the range (~230 miles?) was “unacceptable”…
Back in around 2018 the talk was of having all these Autonomous vehicle only lanes within the next 5 years. None of that has happened and I think full autonomous market is pretty far away.
where would these lanes go and who is paying for them? this is a non starter anywhere there are already roads and buildings
Maybe dey never abandoned it but him talking bout it boosted publicly. Now he got more publicity.
I’d like a 3, they’re fast, look good, and have strong range. But the bridge troll running the company doesn’t instill much faith in its long term viability. A few years ago he claimed Tesla was a tech firm, not a carmaker anymore. Now this brain ooze.
They also stopped making the Model S and X to allow them to build “millions” of humanoid robots that still, currently, can’t really do shit. Gigabrain move.
He believes he’s playing 3D Chess, when no one has the guts to tell him it’s actually Checkers.
If the game is ultimately about his net worth, which I think it clearly is, he actually is mostly winning. You could take away 99% of his holdings and he would still be worth 8 billion doll hairs.
Yeah I’m gonna go sit in the corner and question reality, again.
Checkers? I thought they’re not building cabs now?
He believes he’s playing 3D Chess, when no one has the guts to tell him he is playing with himself.
In reality, he’s playing solitaire and cheats while playing. Unfortunately, many people have bought into his shell game and continue to do so.
Yeah, if I was going to do an electric car, a 3 probably comes the closest to what I’d want of anything out there right now, but, I don’t know, I mean, its a lot to deal with
They seem to be holding up pretty well on the reliability front, none of the teething problems the S and X had eary on
I was kinda hoping to watch Musks insane hubris burn the whole company down but I guess getting a good cheap EV and a lot of people getting to keep their jobs is cool too.
We might be able to thread the needle and get both.
Probably, though, we’ll wind up paying him for his idiocy with some “too big to fail” upward failure bailout.
Money is fake. Consequences don’t exist. Nothing matters. GET BACK TO WORK!
People have short memories. I live in the Bay Area and almost as soon as Musk took out the chain saw people began putting stickers on their Teslas like: ” Bought it before we knew he was an asshole” or something like that. That seems to have been forgotten: I am seeing a LOT of new Teslas around here.
If that was their moment of realization…why do we think these people are defining the future?
That is because EVs are great and Tesla still makes good ones.
It isn’t as if this is the first car company run by an asshole.
As the joke goes:
There are two kinds of people in the world – those who think Elon Musk is the new Henry Ford.
Though I also wouldn’t buy a Ford if we were living in the ’30s for largely the same reasons.
I’ve owned my share of VWs, so shame on me.
KdF Wagen didn’t really make it to production or civilians. And nobody wanted VW post-war until someone (I think connected to Ford England) saw promise and got it up and running. Rough origin story, but its business success is due to what happened after the war.
I mean as long as you didn’t buy them with those KdF-Wagen stamps it’s fine.
Yep, exactly. They’re still hard to beat at the price points (especially used).
I’m sure i wouldn’t get along with Mary Barra, but i’d still love to own a C7 Z06 Vette.
Mary is maybe the one I would get along with. She is a car guy.
She is second gen GM, literally started on the line and went to GMI.
Fair.
Like most people, I’m sure I could find common ground. Nerding out about cars would be fun.
Even Elon could probably be a fun person to talk to on the right subjects.
She started at GMI back in 1980 when it was still part of GM, tuition was about $1500 per year, and you interned at GM. By the time I got there in the mid 90’s had been spun off, renamed Kettering, and cost $15,000 a year. Today it is $65,000 a year.
It was a great school back then but pricey. They tried to say the internships would pay for school but that was only if you had a connection to get a GM internship paying something like $25 an hour. For the rest of us getting paid $7 it was quite the stretch.
Ass hole is one thing, multiple Nazi salutes is another.
Ideally, he’d hand the CEO job to someone else and concentrate on playing with his rocket ships, robits, and brain implants
Tesla could also whip up a CPO program that gets them into that 15-30K market, with a range of offerings, without the cost and expense of building new cars.
Being at the vanguard of fashion matters less than proven reliability for these more practical buyers.
Refurbish and update the old ones more comprehensively- essentially give it a “full mechanical reset” – clean up the cosmetics, profit. Offer financing.
They already have a CPO program and have a number of sub-30k listings available. The cars have the balance of whatever original warranty plus an extra year of B2B.
Yeah – I mean a sort of “Super-CPO” where the cars are basically “zero-miled” and better backed
The cars are pretty well gone over prior to sale. No dents, chips were repaired, nicely polished up. Mechanically sound. If anything shows up in the first year its covered by warranty anyway. They offer trade in and financing like any other purchase.
Other than completely replacing major systems with no signs of failure I’m not sure what else they could do. I suppose a complete new warranty would be nice.
As a data point of one, I have a CPO Model S.
Used EVs, Teslas included, are outstanding values. I was basically suggesting that the company look at that as its low cost offering, vs making an all new car.
So Tesla is going to revive their flagging sales by going toe-to-toe with the Chinese on price. In China. Good luck with that!
Reading those quotes makes my head hurt just because of the stilted, overly-parenthetical diction.
A strongly-led comms shop will be an essential part of getting Tesla out of the ditch they dug and then drove into.
“The future” is such an obfuscatory device. You. Need. Revenue. Today.
What are you making to expand your market share? The high end is saturated. There is obvious pent up demand between 15-30K. Your early advantage and brand strength have been eroded but it’s probably not too late.
You’ll need to innovate and shock people out of their collective dazes. That doesn’t mean more tech and complexity. It means flexing the muscles that have made Sandy Munro and John McElroy go all heart-eyed.
BUT – and this is the twist – don’t try to dictate how people do what they do. Other Teslas, with their screen interfaces and feature-heavy ethos turned owners into students. Instead, lean VERY hard into Human Factors.
It’s time for Tesla to become the student and build the solution that works for people. Give them the things they want and need in a way that feels like second nature. It’s good design, good UX, great UI – but in the physical, made-of-atoms and contains carbon sense, not software.
Respect people, understand they can’t tell you exactly what they want or need. Find out what that is and build it.
It won’t look like a uselessly cramped Cybercab – but the company can probably do something distinctive and at least as practical as a Seagull.
The talent and processes and components are all there.
Small EVs can use smaller batteries. Modest performance is still more than adequate. Free people from being their own IT department and focus on SIMPLICITY AS SOPHISTICATION (by which I do NOT mean performative stark minimalism) and it could be really convincing.
A great plan to communicate it out by demonstrating the benefits (you know, advertising and PR) should be part of it.
But – none of this is going to happen unless the company changes its thinking away from making demands of customers, instead of being the one who senses and responds to the needs of the people who buy the things. Keep being arrogant, keep losing.
Well-said. Thank you.
Agreed, very well-said. It feels like every technology-adjacent company out there is only trying for a new iPhone moment, where they just happen upon new tech that fundamentally changes all our lives. And they’re only now finding out how really fucking hard that is to do. You can’t just tell people your product is going to transform their lives…especially if it doesn’t fucking exist yet. People have to find that out for themselves when they buy your product, which means even if you’re trying to disrupt everything, you do still need to actually think about what people want so they buy it.
Desireability is a mercurial trait. The big-screen-few-button design ethos, works pretty well and makes for a desirable phone. Blindly following the exact same formula with cars has been a disaster, but somehow all the best-paid people in charge of those shitty decisions always seem to keep their jobs.
Anyway we saw some similarities with the Metaverse (though admittedly not quite at this scale), and I am about 50/50 on whether something similar happens with AI. Unfortunately, given how much we’ve already spent / built out, it will be a nightmare whether all these promises come to fruition or not.
I read this not too long ago – it says a lot
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
Agree with you except for the software. This new car needs to be screen and software heavy. Not just because putting things in the screen reduces cost but because this is targeted at the Chinese market that wants their car to be a seamless extension of their phone.
That said it has to be seamless and work with the common phone brands in China.
Yeah – my perspective is US – centric. Agree that the Chinese buyer wants different things
The Chinese market is the key market for EVs. Largest in the world by far and about 50% of new vehicles sold have a plug – that percentage is growing. The EU is next at 28% – and growing. The USA is an also ran with 7% market share and dropping at the moment.
Any automaker making an EV in 2026 would be foolish to design it around what the US market wants.
The US has ~340 million people and it’s still not a big enough market to get something “designed around what it wants”…
We have plenty of US specific vehicles design for what we want – see the Chevy Silverado quad cab short bed truck as a commuter. Small electric cars is not one of those segments though.
The USA only buys 10% of global EVs and that percentage is dropping as the markets outside of the USA continue to grow and we stagnate. Why would Tesla target a new global model around US tastes?
I think what Elon is saying that, ultimately, money talks.
If you want an EV but can’t justify the many higher-cost models out on the market, and feel Elon or Tesla is far too toxic, you can plug your nose and justify to yourself that it’s for the ‘greater good’.
But, bigger, do these lower-cost models count towards his bonus structure to get his trillion-dollar-payday on a per-unit basis, or a per-profit basis?
I really hope Ford has their sub $30 out by then so people have choice.
I’m pretty sure the Cybercab is the $25,000 Tesla, hastily repackaged as an autonomous vehicle after Musk’s abrupt change of priorities
If that is the case, then you can see how development work could pivot back to where it left off easily enough, just with some needless delay and extra expense
A short wheelbase 2 seater is another way to get production costs down, and a smaller, lighter car doesn’t need as big of a battery to get decent range.
It could also be that Tesla engineers really wanted to build a proper follow up to the original Roadster, and pitching it as a cheap commuter car was the only way to get Elon even slightly interested
Biggest problem with a 2 seater is there’s almost no room in the market for one not named “Corvette” or “Miata”.
Especially at the low end of the EV market where four real doors, 5 seat belts and suitability for use as a “second” family car or an Uber hack are both important to large chunks of buyers.
Its a hindrance, to be sure, but there’s also not many EVs in the sub-$30k space, and, among two seaters in general, only the Miata is there, and it doesn’t come with a permanently fixed roof. It would be a gamble, but it isn’t a guaranteed failure if its done right, the odds are maybe slanted a bit against it though.
I’d expect it to at least be Tesla’s best selling new product since the Model Y though. At least for the first year or two
There are dozens and dozens of EVs in the sub-$30K space in China which is where this model is targeted.
Many of us, myself incl., will say that we just need a commuter car – but it also needs to be capable of going to Home Depot afterwork to pick up a few things for the house, or the groceries for the whole house, or pick up the kids from their friend’s houses. And then, on the weekend, we’re both running errands for all the things that need to be done. So a 2-seater has such limited sales potential unless it’s a 3rd car – and what’s the point if, as others noted, it’s not a Miata?.
Tesla is going to target urban dwelling millennial yuppies who are either DINKs or single with a dog, and can’t stretch to a Model 3 because of too many streaming subscriptions and Doordash charges?
Maybe if this just skipped their morning Starbucks, and cut back on the Avocado toast.
Honestly, however, I can’t see that being a big enough market of those people who want a non-sporty, 2-door car from a rather toxic company.
Buy a thing you have to park somewhere vs. living in a place where you can walk or use public transit…hmmmmm….
Nope. A loser.
And if commuters are your market, versatility is your offering.
Urban dwelling millennials don’t want cars, that’s what’s ruining our economy. If only they would get in line and sign up for crippling debt like the rest of us, the world would be a better place.
Sarcasm aside, I need a 4-door sedan that would be price competitive with a Corolla or Civic. If it’s the same buy-in price I can justify it with the lower fueling costs (or at least delude myself into thinking it’ll be cheaper than buying gas, energy bill be dammed)
Anything else is a luxury purchase, and I don’t have the budget for that.
If that’s the case, it’s already a loser. 2-seat cars that cost $30K are not practical for most people.
Versatility is what people need. Over-optimizing for commuting results in a car that’s useless for the wide array of things we need our vehicles to accommodate.
CUVs are more than simply fashion.
But a 3 seater would make sense.
I think they could move the seats forward, add a steering wheel and pedals then get a second row of seats in the Cybercab. The rear seats wouldn’t be very comfortable for adults, but they would be fine for children.
Cyber Cab mules are running around Palo Alto, in a shape quite similar to a current Toyota Prius. While aerodynamic, it seems quite impractical to get in and out of, especially compared to the Waymo Zeekr and Zoox A/Vs (being tested in San Francisco).
TL/DR: This makes more sense than the CyberCab.
While I don’t believe these reports at all and think it’s all BS, if they were to pivot the Cybercab I wonder how much redesign work would be needed. There are absolutely no driver controls at all. Maybe if they did like the Truck, they could have pure electric steering so packaging would be easier, but still a lot of work I imagine.