Closing Fast: Tesla's Texas Robotaxi Fleet Tops 1,200, Now Just 55 Cars Behind Waymo

Tesla's Robotaxi fleet in Texas has passed 1,200 vehicles, and the gap to Waymo is down to a few dozen cars.

The state's public roster of automated vehicles now lists 1,204 cars under Tesla Robotaxi, LLC, after 124 new registrations appeared late on Friday. Every one of them was a Model Y, Teslarati reported, and no new Cybercabs showed up in the batch. The update lifted the roster from 1,080 to 1,204.

The new mix is 631 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs. That hands the Model Y a slim majority again, at about 52 percent, four days after the purpose-built Cybercab overtook it for the first time. A full count of the roster by the Cybercab Collective, which checked every page and every VIN, arrived at the same split.

The pace of growth is the bigger story. Tesla had 578 vehicles on the Texas list on 1 October and 314 on 1 September, according to figures compiled from the roster by the FSD Database tracker. The count has more than doubled in a month, and 234 vehicles were added in the past seven days alone.

That puts Tesla within touching distance of Waymo, the longest-running driverless service in the state. Waymo has 1,259 vehicles registered in Texas, according to the same roster data, leaving Tesla 55 cars behind. When CyberCab.news reported the Cybercab's crossover on Wednesday, the gap was 127.

The Model Y batch is a reminder that Tesla is growing on two tracks at once. Cybercab production at Giga Texas supplies the car built only for driverless service, while the Model Y, which Tesla already builds in large numbers, can be added to the fleet in bulk when the company wants to widen coverage quickly.

These are state registrations, not a live count of cars carrying paying riders. Texas requires each vehicle a company runs as an automated vehicle for commercial purposes to be filed with the state, and the list shows only VIN and model, not which city a car serves or whether it has taken a fare. Tesla has not published its own fleet number. On the roster's current trend, though, the next update could put Tesla level with Waymo in Texas.