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Almost Half: Cybercab Now Makes Up 43 Percent of Tesla's Texas Robotaxi Fleet
Texas DMV books now list 319 Cybercabs against 420 Model Y robotaxis. That is 43.2 percent of the 739-vehicle Tesla Robotaxi fleet in the state, after a record overnight batch of 150 purpose-built cars.
Riley Cho, Features writer, Live desk
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AUSTIN, Texas - Here is the number that sits behind last night's fleet headline: Cybercabs are no longer a small slice of Tesla's Texas Robotaxi books. They are closing in on half.
Texas Department of Motor Vehicles records, as tracked by Robotaxi Radar and reported by Sawyer Merritt, show 319 Cybercabs registered in the state after Tesla added 150 overnight. Model Y robotaxis stayed at 420. The combined Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Texas is 739 vehicles. That puts the purpose-built two-seater at 43.2 percent of the list, with the Model Y at 56.8 percent.
The Model Y column has not moved from 420 since late September. Every new row in the latest batch was a Cybercab. Nic Cruz Patane put the same split another way: 319 Cybercabs and 420 Model Ys on a fleet that now totals 739.
The climb has been fast. Cybercabs first appeared on the Texas list on 31 August. The count reached 169 on 2 October. Six days later it stands at 319. In a little more than five weeks, the car built for paid rides has gone from a footnote to nearly half the registered fleet.
A registration is not the same as a paid ride. Texas asks operators of automated vehicles to file each car with the state. A Cybercab can sit in a lot, run a test route, or carry riders in Austin, the only city where the public can hail one through Tesla's Robotaxi app. Still, the share matters. When almost every new plate is a Cybercab, the mix on the road shifts toward the vehicle Tesla designed for this job.
Riders in downtown Austin are already noticing denser service. Sawyer Merritt, in the city on Thursday evening, wrote that wait times were strong and that he was seeing far more Cybercabs than a month earlier at launch. Robotaxi Radar's tracker panel, refreshed after the overnight add, put the share in plain view: 319 of 739.
Forty-three percent is not a majority. It is, though, the clearest sign yet that the Cybercab is becoming the default face of Tesla's Texas Robotaxi fleet, not a side experiment next to the Model Y.
Riley Cho covers Cybercab product details and the numbers behind the rollout. Based in Austin.
