Tesla’s long-delayed retro diner and charging location is lastly opening

Tesla’s long-in-the-works Nineteen Fifties-inspired diner and drive-in Supercharger station in Los Angeles is anticipated to formally open at this time – and the corporate could construct extra of them down the road.

Principally, it looks like one large advert for every thing Tesla, and this might be simply the primary of many. If the diner “seems nicely,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that the corporate will set up extra of them in main cities and “at Supercharger websites on lengthy distance routes.” The corporate’s model has taken an enormous hit as of late attributable to Musk’s now-deteriorating relationship with President Trump and cratering gross sales.

Musk first introduced his intention to construct “an old style drive-in, curler skates & rock restaurant at one of many new Tesla Supercharger places in LA” all the best way again in January 2018, and Tesla filed a allow for it quickly after. Progress slowed significantly since then, and though Musk promised in 2023 that the diner could be open “later this yr,” the restaurant’s chef wasn’t revealed till earlier this yr.