Tesla stock rises after robotaxi Austin launch

TeslaModel and robotaxi Finally, I hit the road this weekend, sending shares from the manufacturer of electric vehicles up 10% on Monday.

The EV giant made its debut AustinTexas, Sunday, opening the service to a limited number of runners by invitation only.

The guest people included Tesla fans, promoters and long -standing shareholders, many of whom generate income by publishing content of social media linked to Tesla and Musche on platforms such as X and Youtube.

CEO Elon Musk said in an article on its social network X that customers have been charged with flat -rate costs of $ 4.20 by journey.

“Great congratulations to the software and chip design teams @tesla_ai during a successful launch at @Robotaxi !! job.

A passenger of the Tesla early access program for the Y Robotaxis model wrote on x That they made 11 trips with the service with “zero problem”. Musk has republished many first -hand meetings with the services.

Other users and road researchers observed that Robotaxy seemed to violate traffic rules in Austin.

The penis reported A Robotaxi Tesla Model briefly traveled there in the wrong path on a road in Austin. And the critical author Tesla Ed Niedermeyer shared a video from Austin showing a Tesla Robotaxi hard braking In the middle of traffic in response to “stationary police vehicles outside of its driving path”.

Musk has long promised a Tesla Robotaxi fleet to investors, increasing the pressure to deliver in recent months.

Once considered a pioneer, Tesla is now trying to catch up AlphabetWaymo in the West, and Chinese competitors, notably the Apollo de Baidu, Weride and Pony.a. Waymo reported that he is now delivers more than 250,000 merchants without commercial drivers per week and exceeded 10 million trips last month. Apollo Go reported having exceeded 11 million trips.

Musk told David Faber de CNBC last month that Tesla was aimed at “hundreds of thousands, if not more than a million” autonomous cars in the United States by the end of next year. In May, Musk announced for the first time its intention to launch the service in AustinWith subsequent beginnings planned for Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Before the launch, Tesla faced a repression of a group of Democratic legislators In Texas and public security defenders who urged the company to delay the beginnings.

The company has not yet published the systems tested in the streets of Texas, known as not supervised FSD, to the owners of General Tesla.

Tesla sells its new electric vehicles with partially automated driving systems marketed under the name of standard automatic driver and FSD Premium supervised systems. These include features such as automatic maintenance of tracks and navigation, and have been linked to accidents, including deaths, according to data followed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

– CNBC Lora Kolodny contributed the reports