Tesla has damaged floor on the positioning of its deliberate futuristic diner with a drive-in theater and Supercharger station.

Sure, it seems like that loopy mission is definitely taking place.

This mission has been within the works for a very long time. In 2018, Elon Musk stated that Tesla deliberate to open an “old-fashioned drive-in, curler skates & rock restaurant at one of many new Tesla Supercharger areas in Los Angeles.” It was one more “Is he joking?” type of Elon Musk thought, however he wasn’t kidding.

A couple of months later, Tesla utilized for constructing permits for “a restaurant and Supercharger station” at a location in Santa Monica. Nonetheless, the mission stalled for a very long time, apparently because of native rules.

However, Tesla nonetheless moved ahead with a Supercharger on the location, nevertheless it needed to transfer the diner mission to Hollywood. Final 12 months, Tesla filed the development plans with town, giving us the primary have a look at what the automaker intends to construct.

We discovered from the submitting that it will likely be a semi-circular two-story diner with 29 Supercharger stalls and two movie show screens. Utilizing the plans, Architectural modeler Ed Howard created some renders, as seen beneath.

After a 12 months with out a lot exercise, Tesla has secured a constructing allow and has damaged floor on the website. Meals robotics and automation professional Ottomate posted footage (behind a paywall) on Substack.

The photographs present that Tesla has destroyed the prevailing buildings on the website, which was a Shakey’s Pizza, and began to construct foundations for the brand new restaurant.

It’s not clear if Tesla plans for this to be a singular location or if the automaker intends to duplicate the idea at different Supercharger stations because it expands facilities round its charging infrastructure.

Kimbal Musk, brother of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a director on Tesla’s board, is a restaurateur along with his personal chain of eating places. It’s doable that Tesla might leverage his experience to develop a restaurant division round its intensive Supercharger community.