Musk’s Ailing Ev Company To Expand Robotaxis To All Tesla Car Owners 

Elon Musk, whose car institution has mislaid $385 cardinal this year, told Tesla car owners they will beryllium allowed to adhd their vehicles to nan company’s robotaxi web sometime adjacent year.

“I’d opportunity confidently adjacent year,” Musk, nan CEO of Tesla, said connected nan call. “I’m not judge erstwhile adjacent year, but confidently adjacent year.”

The world’s richest person, contempt Tesla’s staggering 2025 losses, made his announcement during a shareholders meeting, successful which he made a stark prediction of a “few unsmooth quarters ahead”. Musk’s prediction did not beryllium good pinch Tesla investors, arsenic reported by Livemint. Musk said nan scheme could perchance let hundreds of thousands of customers to make money by remotely renting retired their cars arsenic self-driving cabs.

Marking a awesome description

The Tesla owner’s scheme could people a important description of nan company’s robotaxi network, which Musk officially launched past period successful Austin pinch a fewer self-driving cars that Tesla straight owns and operates, arsenic precocious reported by Euro Weekly News.

Tesla’s move is simply a bid to level up and compete pinch manufacture leader Waymo, whose fleet of self-driving robotaxis ferries paying customers successful respective cities crossed nan United States.

Musk admitted that his Tesla squad has not yet “thought hard” astir nan specifications of adding cars that it doesn’t straight ain to nan robotaxi network. He said that their privilege correct now is information successful Austin, Texas.

Making judge they’re afloat nether control

“We request to make judge it useful erstwhile nan vehicles are afloat nether our control,” Musk stated.

Tesla reported that successful Q2 2025, gross fell 12 per cent year-over-year to $22.5 billion, nan EV company’s worst capacity successful astatine slightest a decade. The institution attributed nan diminution to an ongoing slump successful conveyance deliveries and falling prices, trends exacerbated by Musk’s engagement successful nan Trump Administration and declining gross from biology credits.

The scheme to let backstage Tesla users to rent their vehicles wrong nan company’s robotaxi web besides raises nan imaginable of individuals managing their ain fleets.

Besides nan technological facet of specified a plan, it’s unclear really regulatory and liability issues mightiness travel into play. As of now, Tesla has yet to afloat region information drivers from nan vehicles it owns and operates connected its fledgling robotaxi service.

For its first Austin rollout, Tesla has had personification sitting successful nan rider spot astatine each times. Tesla has gradually expanded its work radius successful Austin (a representation shared by Tesla online past week depicts nan latest robotaxi work area successful a distinctly phallic shape), and Musk said nan institution plans to grow it further successful a mates of weeks. 

Tesla seeks support for robotaxi description

While Tesla’s robotaxi work is presently only disposable by invitation, Musk outlined eager description plans for nan robotaxi work during Wednesday’s net call, stating that Tesla is seeking regulatory support to motorboat successful nan Bay Area, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida. 

“As soon arsenic we get nan approvals and we beryllium our safety, past we’ll beryllium launching autonomous thrust hailing successful astir of nan country, and I deliberation we’ll astir apt person autonomous thrust hailing successful astir apt half nan organization of nan U.S. by nan extremity of nan year,” he said. 

Up until now, Tesla’s robotaxis person not been progressive successful immoderate awesome information incidents, covering astir 7,000 autonomous miles to date.