Level 3 instead of robotaxis.
Yet potentially being the first to sell a passenger vehicle that can drive itself does equate to a jump into the ride-hailing mobility space. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that self-driving Teslas could earn money for their owners and, at one point, announced that there would beThat hasn’t happened yet, and for Mercedes, that’s not even a goal — at least not anymore. “We thought in 2016 or 2017, we could solve the robotaxi problem quite quickly,” Schäfer said.
Tesla might not have to worry about battling the German automaker in the robotaxi game , but it should be concerned about Mercedes’ recent rollout of EVS. There may be one EQXX, but it’s the new baseline for the automaker’s future lineup. The result, according to Schäfer, is that “you will see a dramatic reduction in electric consumption to what’s out there today.” When pressed about what this efficiency means, the CTO said that the company is targeting a 20–30 percent range improvement.
That’s an important look into the future as the dream of price parity between EVs and gas-powered vehicles starts to slip away.
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