Tesla first revealed plans to develop a completely autonomous robotaxi in 2016, however whereas the challenge was talked about a number of occasions since, the EV maker by no means teased its self-driving car. 

Luckily, we now get an concept of how the Tesla robotaxi appears like, or at the least the idea model of it, from Walter Isaacson’s Elon Musk biography. 

An idea picture of Tesla’s robotaxi was included within the e-book titled “Elon Musk,” and it was rapidly uploaded and shared on social media. The picture was seemingly positioned firstly of a chapter devoted to the upcoming self-driving car.

Described as a “Robotaxi Idea,” the car appears futuristic and would not resemble something Tesla has launched up to now. The illustration exhibits a coupe with a hatchback design with two butterfly doorways. The car seems to have three wheels – two on the entrance and a lined wheel on the rear. 

The opened doorways supply a take a look at the inside, which options two seats however no driving controls by any means – no steering wheel, no pedals. We’re not fully certain the car even has a dashboard seen from this angle. It does seem to have some cargo house behind the seats, although.

After all, the million-dollar query is whether or not Tesla‘s robotaxi will truly seem like this. Whereas it is not simple to search out a solution, it might be quite uncommon for the EV maker to supply such an in depth preview of an upcoming automotive that is so necessary for the corporate. 

That stated, a photograph of Tesla’s design chief Franz von Holzhausen surfaced on X (previously Twitter), exhibiting the designer subsequent to a picket mannequin of a small car that appears quite a bit just like the Robotaxi Idea. The picture is from a phase on CBS referred to as “Walter Isaacson on the unstable Elon Musk” – see timestamp 4:09 on the video embedded on the high of this web page.

Similar to the Robotaxi Idea featured in Isaacson’s e-book, the picket mannequin options two seats, no steering wheel or pedals, and a few cargo house behind the seats. The picture suggests Tesla has constructed a Robotaxi Idea, however that does not essentially imply it’s going to produce it as is.

Should you look intently on the picture, the background options two posters that appear to painting the Robotaxi Idea. They don’t seem to be very clear, however they appear to point out two totally different variations of the car, one with three wheels and one with 4 wheels.

Is Tesla engaged on two variants of its robotaxi or are we wanting on the robotaxi and Tesla’s promised $25,000 EV? We’ll simply have to attend and see.