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Two gold Tesla Cybercabs with Texas plates driving down a tree-lined Austin street as people film them from the sidewalk

Cybercab · Earnings

Tesla Cuts 2026 Capex to $20B as SpaceX Spends $19.6B in One Quarter

Tesla cut its 2026 capex forecast to about $20 billion and posted $1.53 billion of free cash flow, a day after Musk said SpaceX merger committees had formed.

Haye KestelooOct 224 min read

Robotaxi

Tesla Cybercabs Surface in Charlotte, Giving the Giga Texas Pile Its First Visible Destination

Fourteen Tesla Cybercabs and 14 Model Ys with Texas plates appeared in a Charlotte lot as Tesla hires a safety operator, setting up a race with Waymo.

Haye KestelooJul 27

Regulation

NHTSA Chief Says Agency Will 'Absolutely' Consider Dropping Steering Wheel Rule for Driverless Cars

NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison said the agency will consider ending steering wheel requirements for fully driverless vehicles, a potential regulatory opening for Tesla's steering-wheel-free Cybercab.

Haye KestelooJul 10

Robotaxi

Tesla Gets Written Out of New Jersey's Robotaxi Bill, and Its Own Record Helped Draft It

New Jersey lawmakers are weighing a bill that would keep Tesla's robotaxi out of the state before it ever carries a passenger there. Senate Bill S1677 would create a three-year autonomous vehicle pilot program overseen by the state Department of Transportation and the Motor Vehicle Commission, and it requires every participating vehicle to pair its cameras with two additional sensor types, such as lidar or radar.

Haye KestelooJul 10

Texas

Tesla Cybercab Outbound Lot Hits Its Fullest Yet at Giga Texas

The outbound lot at Gigafactory Texas held its largest visible batch of production Cybercab units yet on Sunday, June 14, 2026, with the gold-finished robotaxis staged in tight rows along the factory’s west side. A widely shared count from a Tesla observer on X put the tally at a record 102 cars, a figure that…

Haye KestelooJun 14

Tesla Robotaxi Mishaps Spark Safety Concerns in Austin Trials

Nevada

Tesla Asks Nevada for 5,000 Robotaxis While Its Real Fleet Sits at Roughly 20 Cars

Tesla has filed for a permit to run a paid robotaxi service across Clark County, Nevada, and the number it put on paper is the part worth stopping on. The application, logged as Docket 26-05015 with the Nevada Transportation Authority, asks for authorization to operate up to 5,000 autonomous vehicles in the first 12 months…

Haye KestelooJun 6

Texas

Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Filings Reveal Just 42 Texas Vehicles as Tracker Data Shows a Shrinking Count

Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi network is far smaller than its rhetoric suggests. State filings made public on May 28 show the company has 42 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, while a separate third-party tracker counts as few as 20 cars actually carrying passengers without a human safety driver. Both numbers land hard against Elon Musk’s prediction…

Haye KestelooMay 31

Model S

Tesla Builds Last Model S And Model X At Fremont, Pivots Line To Optimus Robots

The last Model S and last Model X ever produced at Tesla‘s Fremont factory rolled off the line on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Tesla announced the milestone on X just after 9 PM Pacific, posting photos of the final cars surrounded by the workers who built them. The flagship sedan ran for 14 years. The…

Haye KestelooMay 10

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