Tesla Starts Taking Cybercab Orders For Personal Use
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Tesla has opened Cybercab orders to select individual customers for personal use, pricing the steering-wheel-free vehicle at $29,990 plus a mandatory $299 monthly "Autonomy Subscription." The invitation-only rollout marks a shift from Tesla's earlier plan to sell the two-seater initially to fleet operators building its robotaxi network, and AI lead Ashok Elluswamy said personal units will operate unsupervised only within the same geofenced areas as the Robotaxi service. Those zones currently cover limited parts of Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida and Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio in Texas. Tesla lists an estimated delivery date of December 2026, leaving a roughly two-year gap between orders and handovers. The move matters because it tests whether Tesla can convert its robotaxi software into recurring consumer revenue before the vehicle is even widely available. What to watch next: whether personal orders translate into deliveries on schedule and how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's probe into Tesla's self-certification of the vehicle plays out.
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