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

One of the elephantine screens astatine the diner.

Tesla’s long-in-the-works 1950s-inspired diner and drive-in Supercharger presumption successful Los Angeles is expected to officially unfastened today – and the institution whitethorn physique much of them down the line.

The Tesla Diner lets radical drawback comfortableness nutrient similar burgers and fries (served successful boxes shaped similar Cybertrucks) and milkshakes portion charging their vehicles. The Diner has elephantine screens truthful radical tin ticker things like movie clips portion charging their cars, though watching from the screens successful your Tesla is seemingly an option, too. One of Tesla’s Optimus robots was adjacent spotted serving popcorn astatine a caller brushed motorboat event.

Basically, it feels similar 1 elephantine advertisement for everything Tesla, and this could beryllium conscionable the archetypal of many. If the diner “turns retired well,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that the institution volition found much of them successful large cities and “at Supercharger sites connected agelong region routes.” The company’s marque has taken a immense deed arsenic of precocious owed to Musk’s now-deteriorating narration with President Trump and cratering sales. 

Musk archetypal announced his volition to physique “an aged schoolhouse drive-in, roller skates & stone edifice astatine 1 of the caller Tesla Supercharger locations successful LA” each the mode backmost in January 2018, and Tesla filed a licence for it soon after. Progress slowed considerably since then, and though Musk promised in 2023 that the diner would beryllium unfastened “later this year,” the restaurant’s cook wasn’t revealed until earlier this year.