After a decade of unfulfilled promises about self-driving vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hyped the company’s Cybercab concept on Thursday evening, showing off a low, silver two-seater without steering wheels or pedals.

As he rolled onto stage in a Cybercab nearly an hour after the company’s “We, Robot” event was supposed to begin, Musk said the company had 21 of these vehicles, and a total of 50 “autonomous” cars on site at the Warner. Brittle. studio in Burbank, California, where Tesla hosted its invitation-only event.

Musk did not provide details on where exactly Tesla plans to produce the cars, but said consumers could buy a Tesla Cybercab for less than $30,000. He said the company hopes to produce the Cybercab before 2027

He also said he expects Tesla to have “unsupervised FSD” operational in Texas and California next year in the company’s Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles.

FSD, which stands for Full Self-Driving, is Tesla’s premium driver assistance system, which is available today in a ‘monitored’ version for Tesla electric vehicles. FSD currently requires a human driver at the wheel, who can steer or brake at any time. Earlier this year, Tesla added ‘supervised’ to the product name.

“It will be a glorious future,” Musk said Thursday evening.

Musk also revealed plans to produce an autonomous, electric Robovan that can carry up to twenty people, or be used to transport goods. He said it will “solve high density issues,” for example carrying a sports team.

He said the Cybercab and Robovan would use inductive charging, meaning these autonomous vehicles could drive to a station to charge, without the need for a power socket.

Musk has for years touted Tesla’s work on autonomous cars and promised they would come to market. Along the way, he repeatedly weaved a fantastic vision for shareholders, setting and missing his own deadlines.

In 2015, Musk told shareholders that Tesla cars would achieve “full autonomy” within three years. They didn’t. In 2016, Musk said that a Tesla car could make a cross-country drive without any human intervention before the end of 2017. That never happened. And in 2019, on a call with institutional investors who would help him raise more than $2 billion, Musk said Tesla would have 1 million robotaxi-ready vehicles on the road by 2020, each capable of 100 hours of driving per week , making money for their owners.

In April this year, Musk was still telling investors that autonomy is the future of the company.

“If someone doesn’t believe Tesla is going to solve autonomy, I don’t think he or she should be an investor in the company,” he said on a call with analysts. “We will, and we are.”

At Thursday night’s event, which he previously characterized as a “product launch,” Musk welcomed attendees to the “party” and said they would be able to test drive the autonomous vehicles on location, in the closed environment of the film studio. a lot of.

It was Tesla’s first product reveal since the company first showed off the design of its Cybertruck in 2019. The angular steel pickup started shipping to customers in late 2023 and has since been the subject of five voluntary recalls in the US.

WATCH: Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Robovan