Tesla has trademarked ‘Robobus’ and ‘Robotaxi’ – giving us a greater thought of the autos’ names, which have been in some way unclear regardless of the disclosing occasion final week.
Regardless of having an precise launch occasion for the car final week, the small print about Tesla’s Robotaxi have been very restricted, and the car’s identify was not even clear.
Previous to the occasion, CEO Elon Musk referred to it as each ‘Cybercab’ and ‘Robotaxi’.
Each phrases have been additionally used through the occasion.
Tesla solely has a really quick net web page concerning the new car (and Robovan) on its web site and it refers to them as ‘Robotaxi’ and ‘Robovan’:
Throughout the occasion, Musk repeatedly referred to the ‘Robovan’ as “ruh-BO-vin”.
Now, Electrek has discovered new trademark purposes filed by Tesla that ought to hopefully make clear the names of those new autos.
Tesla has filed two emblems for ‘ROBOTAXI’; one for the electrical car and one for the ridesharing and basic business use of the car:
- ROBOTAXI™ trademark registration is meant to cowl the classes of land autos; electrical autos, particularly vehicles; vehicles; and structural elements therefor.
- ROBOTAXI™ trademark registration is meant to cowl the classes of leasing of motor autos; transportation and storage of vehicles; transportation of passengers and items; coordinating journey preparations for people and for teams, particularly, arranging time-based ridesharing companies for people and for teams; car rental companies; car sharing companies, particularly, arranging and coordinating non permanent use of autos; transportation and supply companies, particularly, monitoring, managing, and monitoring of transportation of individuals and supply of products and packages; conveyance rental and sharing companies, particularly, arranging and coordinating peer-to-peer car sharing and rental companies.
Tesla did the identical factor for ‘ROBOBUS’:
- ROBOBUS™ trademark registration is meant to cowl the classes of land autos; electrical autos, particularly vehicles; vehicles; buses; electrically powered buses; and structural elements therefor.
- ROBOBUS™ trademark registration is meant to cowl the classes of leasing of motor autos; transportation and storage of vehicles; transportation of passengers and items; coordinating journey preparations for people and for teams, particularly, arranging time-based ridesharing companies for people and for teams; car rental companies; car sharing companies, particularly, arranging and coordinating non permanent use of autos; transportation and supply companies, particularly, monitoring, managing, and monitoring of transportation of individuals and supply of products and packages; conveyance rental and sharing companies, particularly, arranging and coordinating peer-to-peer car sharing and rental companies; association of passenger transport by bus.
It sounds just like the ‘Robovan’ is definitely going to be referred to as ‘Robobus’, however the trademark purposes nonetheless have to be accepted.
Electrek’s Take
It was fairly bizarre that Tesla unveiled these autos with out having a transparent naming scheme prepared. “Cybercab” and “Robotaxi” have been used alternatively and Elon appeared unable to pronounce “Robovan” on the occasion.
Perhaps that’s why Tesla determined to go together with Robobus as a substitute.
In all seriousness, I’ve loads of doubts about Tesla’s Robotaxi and Robobus packages they usually have little to do with the names.
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