Tesla Cybercab production is rising at Giga Texas even though the vehicle still cannot be sold to customers or drive itself without human supervision. More than 100 Cybercabs have already been spotted in the factory’s outbound lots, while the company’s Robotaxi fleet remains small.
Musk described the ramp as a "stretched out S-curve" and said it would be "going kind of exponential towards the end of the year." Tesla rolled the first steering-wheel-less Cybercab off the line in February and said continuous production had started on its Q1 2026 earnings call in April.
Giga Texas and Tesla
The Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, and Tesla designed it to self-certify against all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. That approach would let Tesla sidestep NHTSA’s 2,500-unit annual cap on exemption vehicles, removing one of the usual limits on a vehicle program before broader deployment.
The production push also comes while Tesla’s Robotaxi service in Austin remains tiny. City officials peg the fleet at roughly 50 vehicles, and Electrek’s tracking shows the unsupervised fleet has shrunk from a peak of about 25 cumulative cars toward roughly 14 active ones.
Robotaxi in Austin
Tesla has expanded the Austin map to cover the entire metro, drawn a small geofence in Dallas and Houston, and most recently mapped a sliver of Miami. Even with that footprint, Musk said on the Q1 2026 earnings call that safety validation is still the limiting factor for expansion.
He said Tesla is holding back until a rewritten FSD v15 arrives, now targeted for the end of 2026 or early 2027. Musk also said Robotaxi "likely will not see material revenue until at least 2027," leaving the company building inventory before the software and safety stack is ready for scale.
FSD v15
For now, the practical result is a growing pile of Cybercabs ahead of a fleet that is still constrained by supervision and software. Tesla is building cars for a robotaxi business that has not yet reached the autonomy level needed to turn those vehicles into revenue.
