US EditionTesla Starts 'Robotaxi' Production: Musk
Tesla says the robotaxi is built to meet federal safety standards without a waiver, allowing production to scale beyond the annual exemption cap.
- On Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Cybercab production has officially begun at Giga Texas, sharing a promotional video showing the steering-wheel-less vehicle autonomously navigating the factory floor.
- Avoiding the NHTSA 2,500-vehicle annual cap, VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed the Cybercab complies with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards through Tesla's own self-certification process, requiring no waivers.
- Musk described the production ramp as a "stretched-out S curve," noting initial output will be "very slow" before scaling toward volume production later this year.
- Despite the production milestone, Tesla has not yet solved unsupervised autonomous driving, restricting current Cybercab deployments to small-scale geofenced robotaxi pilot projects.
- Targeting Q4 2026 for unsupervised Full Self-Driving, management cautioned that revenue from the autonomous platform will likely "not be super material this year" while technology matures.
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US carmaker Tesla has begun production of its Cybercab robot taxi, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday.
In autonomous driving Tesla lags behind the competition. Elon Musk still promises the market leadership. The first self-driving taxis now roll off the line.
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Tesla starts 'robotaxi' production: Musk
Tesla's much-touted autonomous "robotaxi", called the Cybercab, has started production, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday, the same week that the carmaker reported first-quarter profits that beat expectations.
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HandelsblattTesla CEO Elon Musk says that Robotaxis, called Cybercab, will make up the majority of the company's production. First cars roll out of the factories.
The entrepreneur has published on X a promotional video accompanied by the short legend: "The production of Cybercab has begun".
Tesla's highly mediated autonomous robotaxi model, called "Cybercab", has entered production, said its CEO Elon Musk on Friday.
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