Tesla's Texas Robotaxi Roster Now Lists 573 Cybercabs and 507 Model Ys. The Car With No Steering Wheel Is the Majority for the First Time. Rides Are Still Austin-Only.

Honest fence (read first): The numbers in this post come from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles' public list of automated vehicles for Tesla Robotaxi, LLC, which we read ourselves on Thursday, Oct 29 at 4:54 AM ET. A vehicle on that list is authorized. It isn't proof that the car is giving rides, and the list has no city field. Our Oct 15 post covered the 349 count. This one covers the crossover.

Editorial Thesis

At 4:54 AM ET on Thursday, Oct 29, we pulled the full Texas DMV roster for Tesla Robotaxi, LLC twice, page by page. Both reads matched: 1,080 unique VINs, all 2026 model year. 573 are Cybercabs (543 labelled "Cybercab" and 30 labelled "cybercab" in lowercase by the state). 507 are Model Ys.

That makes the Cybercab, Tesla's two-seater with no steering wheel or pedals, 53% of Tesla's authorized Texas robotaxi fleet. It's the first time the purpose-built car has been the majority on the list.

The flip first showed up on Tuesday, Oct 27, when TeslaNorth and Yahoo Finance read 1,051 vehicles: 544 Cybercabs and 507 Model Ys. Our Robotaxi Radar's morning read that day was still 463 Cybercabs. The next morning, Oct 28, it was 573. Thursday's count is the same.

Honest Verdict

Proven (Texas DMV roster): 1,080 vehicles authorized for Tesla Robotaxi, LLC; 573 Cybercabs vs 507 Model Ys; Cybercab count up from 351 on Oct 22 to 573 on Oct 28, or +222 in six days; Model Ys flat at 507 over the same stretch. Tesla's claim, not a DMV field: paid Cybercab rides in Austin since Sep 3; the Austin Cybercab fleet "has grown by a factor of 10" (Musk, Oct 21 call); Dallas "next month" (Ashok Elluswamy, Oct 21 call). Not proven: how many of the 573 are carrying riders on a given day, where they're parked, or when Dallas opens.

How fast the list moved

Here's what our Robotaxi Radar's morning reads of the same state list show:

Two things stand out. Model Y additions stopped at 507 around Oct 22. Every vehicle Tesla has added since then is a Cybercab. And the jumps come in batches (+69, +43, +110), not one car at a time, which is how the state list has updated all month.

For scale, TeslaNorth counted 319 Cybercabs and 420 Model Ys on Oct 9. That's +254 Cybercabs in under three weeks.

What Tesla says the cars are doing

Tesla's Q3 update, filed Oct 21, says: "We started providing Robotaxi rides using Cybercabs on September 3 in Austin." It lists Cybercab installed capacity in Texas at ">125,000" a year, status "Production." That's capacity, not output. Tesla hasn't published a Cybercab production count.

On the Oct 21 call, Ashok Elluswamy said: "We launched in Austin, but that's only because we had some cabs, and we want to swarm Austin with Cybercabs everywhere. ... In fact, next month we'll be launching in Dallas." Musk said the Austin Cybercab fleet "has grown by a factor of 10 since launch about a month ago."

During the U.S. Grand Prix weekend (Oct 23 to 26), Tesla widened its Austin service area around Circuit of the Americas. Community spotters logged 1,250 Cybercab sightings on Saturday, Oct 24, according to EVBytes. Sightings count the same car many times, so they aren't a fleet size.

What the roster can't tell you

The Texas list shows VIN, make, model and model year. It doesn't show:

• City. All 1,080 are Texas-wide. Some could be staged for Dallas. The list doesn't say.
• Service. Authorized isn't operating. Yahoo Finance's Oct 27 story makes the same point.
• Rides. Tesla doesn't publish daily Cybercab trips. Its safety report (our Oct 22 post) gives cumulative miles, not a per-car count.

So "573 Cybercabs" is the size of Tesla's legal paperwork in Texas, and it's growing fast. It isn't 573 cars picking people up.

What would count as the next receipt

• Dallas: a Tesla or @robotaxi post with a launch date, then public rides there.
• Utilization: any Tesla number for active Cybercabs or rides per day.
• Federal: NHTSA's audit query (AQ26002) on Cybercab self-certification is still open. A closing letter or a finding would matter more than another roster jump.
• Other states: Nevada approved Tesla for up to 5,000 driverless vehicles in Clark County in August, with operations required to start within 120 days of the permit. No Nevada rides are confirmed yet.

The video

We embed Next Big Future's Oct 28 conversation (Brian Wang on Brighter with Herbert, 32 minutes), which walks through the 573-vs-507 crossover and Tesla's Austin miles. Those hosts' projections (passing Waymo, six cities by year-end) are their forecasts, not Tesla data. We couldn't play the video on our research machine. Every number here comes from the Texas DMV list or Tesla's own filings and call. Tesla Jigsaw's Oct 26 recap of the F1-weekend Cybercab swarm is the alternate.

Bottom line

Texas now lists more Cybercabs than Model Ys for Tesla's robotaxi company, 573 to 507, out of 1,080. That's a real, public, fast-moving number. It measures registrations. Rides are still Austin-only, and Dallas is "next month" without a date.