Tesla recorded 45 Cybercabs in Texas automated-vehicle records as it heads into a Sept. 3 Austin launch Sept. 3.
Those Cybercabs sit alongside 269 Model Ys, giving Tesla Robotaxi roughly 314 authorized vehicles in the state and making the new vehicles a non-trivial share of its local fleet.
Tesla, the electric-vehicle and autonomy developer, said it had started production of Cybercab, that engineering test drives of production Cybercabs had begun on public roads, and that employee rides started at Gigafactory Texas in July.
Tesla describes the Cybercab as a purpose-built autonomous EV designed as “the workhorse” of its robotaxi operations, a structural shift from the modified Model Ys it has used to date.
Tesla’s Robotaxi site says autonomous rides operate in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, among other cities, and the appearance of Cybercabs in the regulator list signals a move from pilot demonstrations toward hardware built for commercial service.
Investors and observers will now watch how many Cybercabs actually enter commercial service after the Sept. 3 event and how quickly Tesla scales deployments.
