---
title: "Tesla Planning 24-Hour Drive-In Theatre and Diner in Hollywood"
description: "## Order Up"
date: "2022-05-28"
modified: "2022-05-28"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-elon-musk-plans-supercharger-hollywood-diner-drive-in"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "supercharger"
  - "tesla"
  - "the digest"
---

# Tesla Planning 24-Hour Drive-In Theatre and Diner in Hollywood

![After Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he wanted to open an old-school diner, Tesla this week filed papers to open a drive-in supercharger location in Hollywood.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/tesla-elon-musk-plans-supercharger-hollywood-diner-drive-in.png>)
*\<em\>Image: MarcoRPTesla / Twitter\</em\>*

## Order Up

Elon Musk is finally making good on his 2018 dream of becoming a restauranteur. The world's richest man and CEO of electric auto maker Tesla is apparently combining an old-school drive in movie theater, charging station and diner in one Hollywood location.

Back in 2018, [Musk tweeted](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/949831212326993920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E949831212326993920%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2022-05-24%2Felon-musk-is-planning-a-24-hour-tesla-restaurant-drive-in-theater-for-hollywood>) that he wanted to open a "roller skates and rock" diner at a supercharger location so people could charge their Teslas and grab a meal. This week, [*Electrek* reported](<https://electrek.co/2022/05/21/tesla-files-plans-for-diner-drive-in-theater-supercharger-on-santa-monica-blvd-in-hollywood/>) Tesla filed plans with the city to combine a 29-stall supercharger with a diner and drive-in movie theater at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Orange Drive.

Pictures of the design were included and[ posted online by a Twitter netizen](<https://twitter.com/MarcoRPTesla/status/1528158543035113472?s=20&t=xa3FAHoY0mmkWTJ5zXqH0A>), and they illustrate a two-story building with bamboo exterior decor and classic [long, rounded diner windows](<https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111628/nighthawks>).

https://twitter.com/MarcoRPTesla/status/1528158543035113472?s=20&t=xa3FAHoY0mmkWTJ5zXqH0A

## Charge That

*Electrek* says the design could honor Musk's original old-school plan or take on a more futuristic aesthetic. Tesla also wants the location to stay open 24-hours a day.

Regardless of interior design choices, it's interesting to think Musk might take the pandemic's resurgence of drive-in popularity a step farther. After the US first officially went on COVID-19 lockdown in [March of 2020](<https://www.ajmc.com/view/a-timeline-of-covid19-developments-in-2020>), we saw the first articles about the [resurrection of drive-in movie theaters](<https://www.aarp.org/auto/trends-lifestyle/info-2020/drive-in-theaters-during-pandemic.html>) start running only months later, in May. Surely no one needs a reminder of the loneliness and claustrophobia that might've caused *that* particular trend.

Maybe splitting a shake and snuggling up while the car charges will soon be the weekend date of choice — and it sounds kind of romantic, honestly!

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