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Tesla Invites Select Customers to Buy Cybercab for Personal Use
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In Short: Tesla is inviting select customers to buy its Cybercab for personal use at $29,990, plus a $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription.
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Tesla's official Robotaxi account announced on X that select customers can now pre-order the Cybercab for personal use, priced at $29,990 before taxes and a required $299 monthly Autonomy Subscription.
The Cybercab, which was first shown at Tesla's We, Robot event as a two-door robotaxi priced under $30,000, is now available for purchase in Austin, Texas, with deliveries potentially starting in December.
Tesla's third-quarter update indicated that Robotaxi rides in Cybercabs had begun in Austin, with nearly 2 million cumulative unsupervised Robotaxi miles by the end of the quarter.
Independent tracker Koby Pierce found that the areas where Tesla actually accepts pickups and drop-offs are only 59% to 78% of the advertised geofences in the six cities he checked.
Tesla's Robotaxi account on X stated that the Cybercab will work unsupervised in the same geo locations as the robotaxi, and that operation outside the operating area is prohibited and may be technologically prevented.
The Cybercab's touchscreen controls have raised concerns among emergency responders, with the Austin Fire Department warning that they complicate emergency response when the vehicle must be moved.
Tesla is currently only targeting buyers in Austin for this initial wave, and it is not clear what the company defines as personal use or whether the Cybercabs will be restricted to the existing geofenced area in Austin.
The Cybercab's price and subscription model have sparked debate, with some critics arguing that the $299 monthly fee is too high and should match the cost of Tesla Full Self-Driving and connectivity on other models, which they estimate at about $115 a month.
Tesla has started taking orders for the Cybercab, which arrives with about 250 miles already on the odometer from Tesla’s road testing, and those miles count toward the warranty’s mileage limits.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a review of Tesla's Cybercab, examining the technical data and processes the company used to certify a vehicle without traditional human controls.
Tesla's Robotaxi Tracker indicates that the company now has 278 Cybercabs in operation, representing approximately 40 percent of its fleet.
What this adds
Tesla's decision to invite select customers to buy the Cybercab for personal use marks a significant shift in its approach to autonomous vehicles, potentially expanding the market for its driverless technology.
What's confirmed
- Tesla is inviting select customers to buy a Cybercab for personal use at $29,990 before taxes, plus a required Autonomy Subscription of $299 a month, according to an X post from the company’s official Robotaxi account.
- He also said the monthly fee is too high and should match the cost of Tesla Full Self-Driving and connectivity on other models, which he put at about $115 a month.
- Tesla is inviting select US customers to buy the Cybercab for US$29,990 (approx.
- “Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use,” Tesla said through its official Robotaxi account on X on 13 November US time.
- Tesla’s official Robotaxi account announced the invites on X on Friday with screenshots of the order page and the invitation email.
- The EV maker plans to begin selling Cybercab robotaxis to the public by the end of this year.
What's still developing
- At the time, every unit coming off the Texas line was going to Tesla’s own fleet, though Lars Moravy, vice president of vehicle engineering, said the company was trying to get Cybercabs to customers by year-end.
- Per CBC, the pilot saw the city replace one of their old 40-foot diesel buses with a […] Tesla has announced it paid out nearly $10 million to Powerwall owners in 2024 who participated in its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) programs.
- Electrek reported that Tesla answered on 30 October and asked for the entire response to be kept confidential, and that NHTSA has not ruled.
- A second line is blunter: “Operation outside the operating area is prohibited and may be technologically prevented.” Tesla can expand, reduce, relocate or otherwise modify that operating area at any time, and it can restrict the car by road type, weather, investigations, software rollouts or a regulator’s direction.
- Tesla posted the announcement on X with an image of the golden butterfly door two-seater, priced at $29,990 with an “Autonomy Subscription” of $299 a month.
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