Tesla's Hollywood Diner Update: Stainless Steel, Job Listing [Photos + Video]

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Tesla has been building an old-school Diner in West Hollywood, California. The Diner is a throwback to the old age of drive-in diners.

The Hollywood Diner is supposed to be getting Superchargers, a full classic dining experience, and a drive-in movie theatre. But it is not your stylish old film projectors – Tesla is using two 45ft LED screens in the parking lot, bringing the future to its diner. Up to 77 guests will be able to find outdoor seating to watch the movies playing on either screen or can be seated inside their Teslas, and watch while Supercharging.

We’ve been seeing some cool updates related to the drive-in diner recently.

Construction & Stainless Steel

Construction seems to be progressing well on the diner, with the structure being completed. Most interestingly, the entire two-story diner will be getting stainless steel siding for the outside. Perhaps it’ll be the same material that the Cybertruck is made out of? It’ll have a past brought into the future style with the hallmarks of a 50’s diner, but it will also feature cool tech and style that Tesla brings to it.

Most construction for the exterior has now been completed, and work crews have moved on to working on the interior. We’ll likely see it completed by the end of 2024. Tesla broke ground on the 200-seat diner in September 2022.

Another view of the construction at the diner

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Job Posting

On that same front, Tesla has opened up job postings for a “Diner Experience Specialist”, who will be responsible for “providing an unparalleled and immersive” customer experience for both charging and dining.

That’s a pretty vague job description, but it comes with a salary range of $83,600 to $285,000 USD. It sounds like this will be a management position for the diner, and whoever gets the job will be responsible for both ensuring that Tesla’s vision stays on point with the drive-in theatre, dining, and Supercharging experience, as well as making sure the place functions properly and lives up to its potential.

A rendering of Tesla's upcoming drive-in diner

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Tesla Introduces Hands-Free Frunk Opening in Update 2024.32.3

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In Tesla’s upcoming update, 2024.32.3, Tesla has added hands-free support for opening the vehicle’s frunk. This follows the Spring Update (2024.14), which added Hands-Free Trunk support for certain vehicles.

When hands-free trunk support was added earlier this year, it was supported on vehicles that include an ultra wideband chip, which includes the refresh Model S, new Model X, and the 2024 Model 3. Due to the hardware requirement, these will be the same vehicles that support the new Hands-Free Frunk feature. Legacy vehicles without UWB will unfortunately not support either feature due to the hardware requirement. UWB enables far more accurate tracking of the phone key, allowing Tesla to pinpoint its exact location relative to the vehicle.

The Cybertruck interestingly also includes an ultra wideband chip, however, it didn’t include the automatic opening of the gate earlier this year. However, we expect the Cybertruck to also receive the hands-free frunk opening in this 2024.32.3 update or relatively soon afterward.

Update: The Cybertruck is receiving hands-free frunk support in the 2024.32 update as well.

Hands-Free Frunk

The Hands-Free Frunk works similarly to the trunk feature – with an iPhone 11+ and a recent version of the app, you’ll be able to stand in front of your vehicle, and the Frunk will unlatch after sounding a chime. On some vehicles, the frunk will immediately open after being unlatched, however, you’ll need to manually close it.

This new feature isn’t enabled by default – you’ll need to go to Settings > Locks > Hands-Free Frunk to enable it.

At this time, Tesla doesn’t support UWB on Android devices, though both the Hands-Free Trunk and Hands-Free Frunk support will come to Android users in a future app update, according to Tesla.

Exclude Home

With the addition of the hands-free frunk opening, Tesla has also added a new option. You can now choose to disable the automatic opening when your vehicle is located at home to prevent you from accidentally opening. This will apply to the automatic frunk and trunk. In addition, in the Model X, you’ll also be able to disable the self-presenting doors at home. This is a great addition as many people have kept the hands-free feature disabled due to it awkwardly opening in the garage.

In the 2024.32.3 update, Tesla also mentions that they’ve improved the detection of the phone key, which should make the feature more reliable and faster when approaching the vehicle from the front or rear.

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Tesla’s Referral Program Launches in Europe

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Following its recent launch in the United States and Canada, Tesla has launched their referral program in several European countries as well.

The program is available in Germany, Norway, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and possibly others. The program is almost the same as the one available today in North America, with rewards for each referral and a discount for those referred. The cap in Europe is also ten per year.

This program comes right on the heels of a 0% financing offer for the Model Y in Sweden and France. While referrals aren't currently available in Sweden, the 0% financing still is.

European Referrals

The European Referral program accounts for country and local currency, where applicable.

The referral reward program is comparable to the one available in North America. After exchange rates, there is only an approximately 10% difference between the available rewards in the US and EU.

Other Countries

We expect this program to start rolling out to other European countries over the next few days or weeks, as Tesla continues to expand its referral program.

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