firsttruck
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The future might be privately owned Cybertrucks and Robotaxi cars - Will Tesla Robotaxis make private car ownership obsolete?
Yes, in most densely populated areas (city, suburban ).
Insurance costs for manually drive-able private cars will increase significantly as will car purchase price, maintenance costs, parking fees, government registration fees and other fees.
The cost difference advantage to use Robotaxi will be huge.
Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. https://www.tesla.com/about
In long term Tesla does not really need to sell cars. Once they can produce dedicated Robotaxis that will kill a big chunk of the individual private car ownership market. Eventually Tesla might make multiple sizes of dedicated Robotaxi ( small car, SUV).
The other market Tesla wants to transition is the high rate fossil fuel burning trucks. The Robotaxi cars/SUVs will only have limited impact on this market. In city & suburban areas, Robotaxis will be cheaper the private ownership and a couple of problems many prospective EV buyers who lived in apartments would have encountered ( where to charge, parking) will longer be problems. In rural areas the population density will make Robotaxi less cost effective, not timely available, and almost all these potential EV truck owners have plenty of room for parking with charger ( and probably easy locations to install solar or wind energy capture devices). The population in rural areas also have much higher ownership of trucks and higher everyday real-world usage for trucks (private & businesses). In city, suburban areas it will cheaper to have any unusual size or weight loads delivered.
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Will Tesla ROBOTAXI RENDER CARS OBSOLETE?! The untold possible effects of Full Self Driving! Following up on the last video, here are more thoughts on the consequences of Tesla actually getting a robotaxi working, and costing less to operate per mile than owning a car--even a used car! Geoff Shelley and I get into some fun speculation about how things could look in a decade!
Apr 23, 2022
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Yes, in most densely populated areas (city, suburban ).
Insurance costs for manually drive-able private cars will increase significantly as will car purchase price, maintenance costs, parking fees, government registration fees and other fees.
The cost difference advantage to use Robotaxi will be huge.
Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. https://www.tesla.com/about
In long term Tesla does not really need to sell cars. Once they can produce dedicated Robotaxis that will kill a big chunk of the individual private car ownership market. Eventually Tesla might make multiple sizes of dedicated Robotaxi ( small car, SUV).
The other market Tesla wants to transition is the high rate fossil fuel burning trucks. The Robotaxi cars/SUVs will only have limited impact on this market. In city & suburban areas, Robotaxis will be cheaper the private ownership and a couple of problems many prospective EV buyers who lived in apartments would have encountered ( where to charge, parking) will longer be problems. In rural areas the population density will make Robotaxi less cost effective, not timely available, and almost all these potential EV truck owners have plenty of room for parking with charger ( and probably easy locations to install solar or wind energy capture devices). The population in rural areas also have much higher ownership of trucks and higher everyday real-world usage for trucks (private & businesses). In city, suburban areas it will cheaper to have any unusual size or weight loads delivered.
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Will Tesla ROBOTAXI RENDER CARS OBSOLETE?! The untold possible effects of Full Self Driving! Following up on the last video, here are more thoughts on the consequences of Tesla actually getting a robotaxi working, and costing less to operate per mile than owning a car--even a used car! Geoff Shelley and I get into some fun speculation about how things could look in a decade!
Apr 23, 2022
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