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Everything on the Cybercab wire — production counts, Austin rides, and the policy that follows.

A Cybercab on display at an outdoor event with butterfly doors open and onlookers behind stanchions

Breaking

Ten days out: Tesla mails Cybercab invites as Nevada clears 5,000 robotaxis

The Austin party has a date. Las Vegas now has a permit. Five sweepstakes winners find out Tuesday.

Maya Chen · 3h ago

Champagne-gold Cybercab with both butterfly doors raised at dusk, cabin open

Latest

Ride window’s closed — five Austin Cybercab tickets drawn Tuesday

Robotaxi rides through Sunday were the raffle. Tesla names five winners Aug. 25. Travel to Giga Texas is on you.

Opinion

The two-seat bet that wants to end the family car

Tesla is not launching a cute EV. It is launching a theory of the American driveway, and the theory is that you do not need one.

A line of champagne-gold Cybercabs on a Texas freeway at dusk

Policy

Nevada clears Tesla for 5,000 paid robotaxis — Cybercabs wait behind Model Ys

The NTA lifted a 10-car toy permit and handed Tesla the largest autonomous fleet cap in Clark County. Rides are not live. The paperwork is.

A champagne-gold Tesla Cybercab on a wet Austin street at night, lightbar glowing

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Tesla sets Sept. 3 Austin event for exclusive Cybercab access

A gold two-seater with no steering wheel is about to leave the employee lot. Tesla is inviting a tight list to the first public look at purpose-built robotaxi rides.

Cybercab fleet on a Texas highway at sunset

Cities

After Austin, the map is a rumor

Tesla will not publish a city list. The factory, the app, and the law will.

Cybercab cabin with a central landscape screen and no steering wheel

Robotaxi

How you will actually hail a Cybercab

No new app. No new account. Tesla is dropping the two-seater into the Robotaxi button millions of owners already ignore.

Cities

Austin’s robotaxi war just got a two-seat coupe

Waymo has the miles. Zoox has the living-room cabin. Tesla has a gold car with no wheel and a head start in its own app.

Cybercab with butterfly doors raised on an Austin sidewalk at dusk

Robotaxi

Employee Cybercab rides already rolling on Austin public streets

Before the Sept. 3 showcase, Tesla is putting its own people in the two-seater — the last rehearsal before the Robotaxi app can hail a car with no wheel.

Cybercab on display with a butterfly door raised in a gallery setting

Opinion

The least exciting Tesla is the one that might matter

No launch stunt can make a taxi interesting. That is the Cybercab’s secret and its risk.

Champagne-gold Cybercab parked on a city street with both butterfly doors raised

Tech

Butterfly doors, filmed at night, no one in the driver’s seat

The clearest look yet at how a production Cybercab actually opens — in a parking lot, under floodlights, like a prop that got a VIN.

Cybercab driving on rain-slick Austin streets at night

Cities

Night fleet: the Cybercab after dark is a different animal

On wet asphalt the lightbar becomes a signature. Austin after midnight is where the robotaxi stops looking like a concept.

Aerial view of a champagne-gold Cybercab on a factory access road

Production

Hundreds of gold Cybercabs now circling Giga Texas

Test loops around Tesla’s Austin plant have gone from a handful of prototypes to a fleet you can count from the overpass.

Texas Capitol at dusk with a Cybercab parked on the street in the foreground

Policy

A car with no wheel walks into the Texas Capitol

The Cybercab is about to force a regulatory sentence that Detroit never had to write: what is a vehicle that cannot be driven?

Cybercab interior with two black lounge seats, cupholders, and a landscape screen — no steering wheel

Tech

Inside the cabin: two seats, a screen, and nothing to hold

The Cybercab’s interior is the argument. Tesla deleted the driver’s job and did not replace it with theater.

Open Cybercab butterfly door revealing the two-seat cabin and mounted screen

Policy

A two-seat robotaxi still has to take a service animal

Tesla is advertising accessibility in a cabin that barely fits two adults. The details will decide whether that is a policy or a brochure.

Cybercabs lined at a night depot under industrial lights

Policy

First responders are training for a car they cannot steer

How do you move a wrecked robotaxi when there is no column, no key, and two passengers who were watching a screen?

A Cybercab at a night charging depot with other gold robotaxis lined behind it

Production

After midnight, the fleet comes home to a pad

A robotaxi that works 20 hours still has to charge. The depot is the unglamorous half of the Cybercab story.

Close-up of the Cybercab’s champagne-gold hood and glowing full-width lightbar

Tech

Why the production Cybercab wears gold, not stainless

The We, Robot car was a silver idea. The cars leaving Giga Texas are champagne — and they will change how the fleet reads on a street.

Cybercab on an auto-show stand with both butterfly doors raised

Production

The $30,000 question the Cybercab still has not answered

Musk’s number was a manufacturing target, not a fare. Volume will decide if it was either.

Cybercab on an access road beside a vast factory complex

Production

Unboxed: how Tesla wants to stamp a robotaxi in four pieces

The Cybercab’s price target lives or dies in the body shop Tesla is trying not to build.

Production

The first production Cybercab rolled at Giga Texas in February

Hard hats, a gold coupe, and the photograph Tesla wanted the internet to see: the robotaxi is no longer a stage car.

Latest

Ten days out: Tesla mails Cybercab invites as Nevada clears 5,000 robotaxis

Ride window’s closed — five Austin Cybercab tickets drawn Tuesday

The two-seat bet that wants to end the family car

Nevada clears Tesla for 5,000 paid robotaxis — Cybercabs wait behind Model Ys

Tesla sets Sept. 3 Austin event for exclusive Cybercab access

After Austin, the map is a rumor

How you will actually hail a Cybercab

Austin’s robotaxi war just got a two-seat coupe

Employee Cybercab rides already rolling on Austin public streets

The least exciting Tesla is the one that might matter

Butterfly doors, filmed at night, no one in the driver’s seat

Night fleet: the Cybercab after dark is a different animal

Hundreds of gold Cybercabs now circling Giga Texas

A car with no wheel walks into the Texas Capitol

Inside the cabin: two seats, a screen, and nothing to hold

A two-seat robotaxi still has to take a service animal

First responders are training for a car they cannot steer

After midnight, the fleet comes home to a pad

Why the production Cybercab wears gold, not stainless

The $30,000 question the Cybercab still has not answered

Unboxed: how Tesla wants to stamp a robotaxi in four pieces

The first production Cybercab rolled at Giga Texas in February

Dispatches before the doors lift