Elon Musk shares Tesla Cybertruck FSD release update

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It appears that Tesla Cybertruck drivers would have to wait quite a bit longer before their all-electric pickup trucks could receive Full Self Driving (FSD) functions. The update was posted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a recent post on X. 

The Tesla Cybertruck is the electric vehicle maker’s most advanced and most pricey vehicle today. Despite this, the all-electric pickup trucks have been delivered without advanced driver-assist functions like FSD or Autopilot. This has resulted in a rather unusual situation where owners of today’s most advanced Tesla are not able to enjoy FSD features that are accessible to the company’s most affordable cars. 

It was then no surprise that Tesla Cybertruck owners have been asking the company about a tentative timeframe for the release of Autopilot and FSD to their vehicles. Among these was longtime FSD tester @WholeMarsBlog, who asked Elon Musk if Tesla could release some driver-assist functions like lane-keeping to the Cybertruck. Musk responded to the Cybertruck owner, though the timeframe he gave was quite conservative. 

“We must focus on FSD for the other 99% of the fleet. Cybertruck FSD is a few months away,” Musk wrote in a post on X. 

Considering that Musk’s typical estimates have a tendency to be late, it would not be surprising if the Cybertruck gets access to FSD months after the unveiling of the Robotaxi “Cybercab,” which is expected to be held on August 8, 2024. Prior to the upcoming vehicle’s unveiling, Tesla would likely be focusing its resources on training and improving FSD for the Cybercab. Doing so would likely require Tesla to gather data from its current fleet, which is mostly comprised of the S3XY lineup. 

Elon Musk’s announcement on the Cybertruck’s FSD release has met polarizing reactions from the electric vehicle community, with some stating that the Foundation Series Cybertruck has now become grossly overpriced. The Foundation Series package costs $20,000, after all, and a huge portion of that is FSD, which was priced at $12,000 when the Cybertruck started deliveries. Considering that FSD has now dropped to $8,000 and the advanced driver-assist system is still months away, Cybertruck buyers today do seem to be getting less than what they’re paying for. 

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Tesla Giga Mexico jobs disappear from the company’s career page

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Amid Tesla’s layoffs, the company’s job listings from its official website have disappeared. 

In December 2023, Tesla Mexico posted new job positions in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo León (NL), near the company’s next gigafactory. At the time, the company was looking for an Indirect Procurement Manager for Giga Mexico in Santa Catarina, NL.

In February 2024, Tesla ramped up its hiring efforts for sales and service jobs in Mexico. It also posted vacant positions for its Supercharger Network, energy storage, and solar business in the country. 

In early Q2 2024, an Elon Musk email leak revealed that Tesla planned to lay off 10% of its global staff. The layoffs have already affected workers in China and the United States. The layoffs in China and the United States were swift, with some employees sharing that they were effective immediately. Meanwhile, in Europe, Tesla layoffs must follow procedure and are slower to execute. 

As for Mexico, Tesla seems to have paused its hiring efforts in the country. Although, NL’s State Secretary of Economy assured that Tesla’s layoffs would not affect Giga Mexico’s construction. 

“As we prepare the company for our next phase of growth, it is extremely important to look at every aspect of the company for cost reductions and increasing productivity.

“As part of this effort, we have done a thorough review of the organization and made the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally. There is nothing I hate more, but it must be done,” said Elon Musk.

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Tesla Giga Berlin protests impact production schedule

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Protesters at Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin have caused a slight impact on the company’s production schedule at the plant.

Tesla will not open on Friday for production, and all employees will be required to work from home to avoid issues with the protesters at the plant. The plant will be closed for four days, including Thursday’s holiday, Friday’s protest, and the weekend.

Production at the plant will stop after the late shift on Wednesday and resume with a late shift on Sunday, and access to the plant will only be available if a manager approves it, according to Handelsblatt, who first reported the story:

“No access to the site or the factory is possible without the explicit instructions and approval of your manager.”

Tesla has plans to expand its Gigafactory Berlin plant, but protesters are more concerned about the environmental aspects of the factory’s growth. The forests surrounding the current plant structure will need to be knocked down to make way for new buildings.

Protesters have even built treehouses in the forest near the factory and inhabited them to stop the potential for trees to be knocked down.

They said they planned to live in the treehouses “indefinitely.”

German politicians are not thrilled about the possibility of the protesters staying in the area, but they are technically allowed.

Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stügben said:

“We believe the threat is not just abstract – as is the case with hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest in Brandenburg – but rather concrete. The first thing is to rule out any danger to the camp residents, but also to the forestry employees, the police, and forest walkers.”

Tesla has operated Gigafactory Berlin since 2020 and only builds the Model Y crossover in the factory. It also has a world-class paint shop that offers two exclusive colors, one of which was recently brought to the U.S. market.

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