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Voilà, Cybercab: Tesla Pulls the Cover Off Its First Robotaxi in Europe at the Paris Motor Show
Tesla crew unveiled a gold production Cybercab on stand C25 on Monday's press day at the Mondial de l'Auto, with Optimus in a glass case beside it. Public visitors get their turn from Tuesday.
Sam Ellison, Live desk
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PARIS - The Cybercab is officially in Europe. Tesla staff pulled a fitted grey cover off a gold production Cybercab on the company's stand at the Mondial de l'Auto on Monday morning, the show's press day, giving the two-seat robotaxi its first public display on the continent.
Video posted to X by David Moss shows two Tesla crew members peeling the cover back from the nose, then lifting it clear to reveal the car on a black plinth trimmed with light. A second clip, from a poster who goes by Spencer, captures the same moment from above the stand, with the Tesla sign overhead and visitors gathering around the platform.
The car is the same hardware Tesla runs for paid rides in Austin. It has the gold body, solid disc wheel covers and the Cybercab script along the door, with no steering wheel and no pedals inside. It sits a few steps from a glass case holding Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot, with red Tesla cars lined up behind. Earlier in the morning, Teslas.R.Us reported the Cybercab was already in place but still under its cover.
The reveal makes good on what the show's organisers promised last week. Serge Gachot, the Mondial's director, told Bloomberg News that a Cybercab from Tesla's U.S. Robotaxi fleet would stand on Tesla's display in Hall 7.1, stand C25, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. Visitors can walk around it but cannot drive it. Instead, Tesla is offering free test drives in cars running Full Self-Driving (Supervised).
Monday was reserved for press. The public gets in from Tuesday, 13 October, and the show runs through Sunday, 18 October, giving European show-goers their first chance to stand next to a car built to drive itself.
The timing works in Tesla's favour. Over the weekend the company's Robotaxi account said more than 300 Cybercabs now serve Austin, an eightfold jump in the month since paid rides began on 3 September. Austin is still the only city where the public can book one, and Tesla has named Dallas as next. A European Cybercab service is not planned at this stage, according to French outlet Turbo.
For now, Paris gets the car on a plinth rather than on the road. But for a show crowded with rivals from Stellantis, Renault, BYD, Xpeng and Volkswagen, the gold two-seater in Hall 7.1 comes from a driverless fleet that is already carrying paying riders in the United States.
