Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest

Elon Musk said Austin residents will be able to pay for a fully autonomous Tesla robotaxi ride in June, with an expansion to more US cities planned.

Tesla published a blog that said all EVs it produces have the hardware necessary to achieve “Full Self-Driving,” meaning owners of those Teslas could look forward to

As the Lucid Gravity EV gets Supercharger access this week, CEO Peter Rawlinson (a former Tesla exec) gives us the rundown on the origins of the Model S and the future of EV charging.

The news comes from CEO Elon Musk, who finally admitted it during Wednesday's Tesla earnings call (via Electrek ). "The truth is that we will need to replace all HW3 computers in vehicles where FSD was purchased," said Musk after Tesla's head of FSD, Ashok Elluswamy, said the company is "not giving up on it."

The other tidbit that seems to have investors very excited is Musk’s promise that the company’s Cybercab Robotaxi, which we saw at a preview event last year, will go into volume production and start a paid passenger-carrying service in Austin, Texas, in June 2025. No additional detail on the service, or the vehicle itself, was provided beyond that.

Tesla’s driver assistance software, known as full self-driving, or FSD, will see unsupervised tests in Texas, California and other states this year.

Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those in the car as a top priority,” Musk said.

Elon Musk promised Tesla’s car sales would jump 20% this year at a minimum, but his own company doesn’t even seem to believe that.

Musk is banking on exponential growth of self-driving cars and humanoid robots to make Tesla the most valuable company in the world.

Tesla (TSLA) stock gained 4.1% in yesterday’s after-hours trading session fueled by CEO Elon Musk’s comments that the vehicle business would