Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed {that a} automobile has, for the primary time ever, delivered itself to a buyer autonomously, in the future forward of the corporate’s authentic schedule.
Up to now, that is the primary automobile to ever roll off a manufacturing line at a manufacturing unit and transport itself to a buyer for supply.
Late final month, Musk introduced that the first-ever totally autonomous supply of a Tesla would happen on June 28. The plan was to have the automobile roll off the manufacturing strains at Gigafactory Texas and drive to a neighborhood buyer with out the help of anybody on board or remotely controlling the automobile by means of teleoperation.
Teslas will self-deliver to prospects, Elon Musk says: right here’s when
Musk stated on Friday that it has formally occurred:
🚨 Elon Musk confirms the primary Tesla to self-deliver to a buyer has occurred, in the future forward of schedule! https://t.co/Zvb9y4m0uu
— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) June 27, 2025
The automobile traveled as quick as 72 miles per hour, in accordance with Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Head of AI and Autopilot.
Musk continued on X:
“There have been no folks within the automobile in any respect and no distant operators in management at any level. FULLY autonomous! To the perfect of our information, that is the primary totally autonomous drive with no folks within the automobile or remotely working the automobile on a public freeway.”
He stated a video of the supply can be uploaded quickly.
Now we have seen vehicles autonomously transport themselves from manufacturing line to logistics lot at Gigafactory Texas, however it is a entire new stage.
Tesla’s Giga Texas autos now drive themselves to outbound lot
Tesla only recently launched its Robotaxi for the primary time in Austin on Sunday. Opened to a restricted variety of folks, the corporate rolled out an Early Entry Riders Program, however has been increasing it to extra folks in current days. These vehicles featured a Security Monitor within the passenger’s seat to make sure security.
This appears to be one thing Tesla wish to carry out extra steadily within the coming months, particularly domestically. Finally, it appears that evidently Tesla will plan to have each automobile it manufactures self-deliver, as a hauler would transport it to native supply facilities, then the automobile would drive itself to the client’s home.
That is doubtless a number of years off, however Tesla has already accomplished one self-delivery, which is an unbelievable accomplishment.
Yesterday, I wrote about Tesla’s two huge milestones which might be nonetheless deliberate for launch earlier than the tip of Q2. This was certainly one of them. One to go: unveiling of the reasonably priced fashions.
