Gold Rush in Bellevue: A Record 24 Cybercabs Pack Tesla's Washington Robotaxi Lot

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Tesla's Cybercab fleet in the Seattle area just posted its biggest count yet. Matthew Donegan-Ryan, a Tesla watcher who posts on X as @MatthewDR, posted video on Wednesday of 24 Cybercabs parked at Tesla's Robotaxi lot in Bellevue and called it a record for the site. He said the number was double what he saw there a month ago.

His 15-second clip, shot from a passing car on a bright, clear day, rolls past row after row of the gold two-seaters. They sit nose-in along the curb and in the open bays of a low-rise office park, with more lined up toward the far end of the car park. Washington plates are visible on the cars nearest the camera.

Part of the way through, the video passes a sign that reads "Overlake 520 East." That puts the lot on the Overlake 520 office campus, the same site where local spotters began logging Cybercabs at the start of September.

The fleet there has been growing in steps. On 1 September, the watcher Nicholas Gibbs counted 17 Cybercabs at the Bellevue site, 16 with Washington plates and one with Texas plates, and noted that two carried Starlink antennas. Counts taken from the street vary by day and by who is counting, but 24 is the highest number posted for the lot so far.

The cars are not just parked. Robotaxi Radar, which tracks Cybercab sightings, reported in September that the cars were making round trips between Seattle and the Bellevue hub, and logged a sighting in Sammamish, about 25 minutes from the lot. It counted roughly nine unique Cybercab sightings in the Seattle area by mid-September and pointed to Tesla job listings in Bellevue as another sign of activity.

Donegan-Ryan's second clip, shot about two blocks from the lot, shows a Waymo with its roof sensor dome outside a bank branch. He identified it as one of Waymo's Zeekr vehicles. Both companies, he wrote, will compete for the Seattle ride-hail market, which he described as having the highest rates in the world.

For now, Austin is still the only city where the public can hail a Cybercab. The Bellevue lot shows the hardware arriving in another major market well ahead of any rider app. Robotaxi Radar's running list of places where Cybercabs have been spotted passed 200 locations this month.

A month ago the Bellevue lot was a curiosity for local spotters. With two dozen gold Cybercabs now parked outside an office block in the suburbs east of Seattle, it looks a lot more like a fleet getting ready for work.