Tesla’s retro-futuristic diner officially opens as Elon Musk hints at more locations

In Brief

The Tesla Diner & Drive-In, a long-awaited and hyped installation that combines retro nostalgia and futurism with the automaker’s fast-charging network, officially opened astatine 4:20 p.m. Monday successful Hollywood, California.

The Tesla Diner & Drive-In is technically a spot for Tesla drivers to complaint their EVs and possibly get hamburger, blistery dog, oregon different classical diner paper items (which Eater shared successful full). The diner, which per reporting from Not a Tesla App is loaded with Tesla-branded merchandise, an Optimus robot, and 2 45-foot LED movie screens, is intelligibly hoping to pull much than conscionable Tesla owners.

It’s excessively aboriginal to archer if the diner, which boasts 80 v4 Superchargers stalls and a drive-in movie theatre that syncs with speakers wrong a driver’s Tesla, volition go an enduring fixture of Hollywood. The agelong lines of radical who queued up Monday greeting suggests the diner volition pull crowds for awhile.

Even earlier its doors officially opened, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mused astir establishing much of the diners globally.

“If our retro-futuristic diner turns retired well, which I deliberation it will, @Tesla volition found these successful large cities astir the world, arsenic good arsenic astatine Supercharger sites connected agelong region routes,” Musk posted connected X.

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