Never Closes: Tesla Robotaxi Now Runs 24/7 In Every City It Serves

Tesla's Robotaxi no longer keeps office hours.

The company's official Robotaxi account said late on Wednesday, Texas time, that the service now runs 24/7 in every city where rides are available. The post came with a short clip of a gold Cybercab gliding down a city street.

That covers all eight metros on Tesla's map: Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth and Dallas in Texas, and Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida, Sawyer Merritt noted on X. Elon Musk put it more simply. "Robotaxi works 168 hours a week," he wrote.

The change closes a gap that had been shrinking for weeks. In mid-October Austin riders were told rides would run until midnight, one hour past the old 11 p.m. close. By late October the service day ran from 6 a.m., and on Sunday CyberCab.news reported that the app listed a 21-hour day from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. The three hours between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. were the last ones off limits.

Round-the-clock service matters for more than late-night bar crowds. Airport runs before dawn, shift workers and early commuters are the kind of trips a human-driven fleet struggles to cover profitably, and they are exactly where a car that never tires has the edge.

It also fits the pace of the past week. Tesla opened rides in San Antonio on Monday with its largest service area yet, widened its Austin zone by 63 percent to about 443 square miles, and on Tuesday passed Waymo in the number of robotaxis registered in Texas.

A car that can work every hour of the week is the whole economic case for the Cybercab. As of Thursday, Tesla's riders in eight cities can test that promise at any time of day.