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Eight Times Over: Tesla Says 300-Plus Cybercabs Now Serve Austin, One Month In
Tesla's official Robotaxi account says the Austin Cybercab fleet has grown eightfold in 30 days to more than 300 cars. It is the company's first public count of Cybercabs in service, and Nic Cruz Patane's verdict was blunt.
Riley Cho, Austin
Published · 2 min read
AUSTIN, Texas - Tesla has put its own number on the Cybercab. The company's official Robotaxi account posted on Saturday afternoon that one month after launch it has scaled to more than 300 Cybercabs serving Austin, which it called an 8x increase in 30 days.
It is the first time Tesla has published a count of purpose-built Cybercabs in service. Until now the public tally came from the outside. Texas Department of Motor Vehicles records, logged by trackers earlier this week, showed 319 Cybercabs registered for the Robotaxi fleet after a record overnight batch of 150. A registration says a car is on the state's books. Saturday's post says something stronger: that more than 300 are serving the city.
The two figures sit close together, and that is the point. The registration count told observers how many cars Tesla had filed. The company's own statement suggests that most of them are already at work in Austin rather than waiting in a lot.
The growth rate is the larger headline. An eightfold rise to more than 300 in 30 days means the service began its first month with a fleet of only a few dozen cars. Tesla did not give the starting figure or a daily ride count.
The post came with a 45-second video that runs from the Giga Texas assembly line, past rows of gold Cybercabs in a parking area, to an aerial shot of a lot filled with the cars. It drew close to 900,000 views and more than 12,000 likes by Sunday morning.
Nic Cruz Patane, who covers Tesla closely on X, quoted the post within a minute with four words: "R.I.P Waymo, Uber, and Lyft." His reply drew about 167,000 views of its own. It is a fan's verdict, not a market share figure, but it captures the bet Tesla is making: a two-seat car built only for ride-hailing, produced at a pace that lets the fleet multiply in weeks.
Austin remains the only city where riders can pay for a Cybercab trip through Tesla's Robotaxi app. Tesla's AI chief, Ashok Elluswamy, said on the same day that Dallas is next. With more than 300 cars now working the launch city, the next number to watch is how fast that fleet grows beyond it.
