This week’s biggest change arrived at 8:31 on Wednesday night, in a two-word post from Tesla’s Robotaxi account with a short video of a Cybercab: “Robotaxi now runs 24/7.” No new city, no new car — but the overnight pause is gone, and that was the last piece of the service’s daily schedule still missing.
The Cybercab: the truck makes way
The week’s biggest Cybercab news came from the factory floor. On November 6, Elon Musk said on X that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027 to make room for increased Cybercab production. The next day he added that the Cybertruck order backlog is “far more than we can make before dismantling the line for Cybercab expansion around June/July next year,” and that Tesla will add an extra shift to try to fill the orders in time. Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill’s farewell for the truck: it “lives on through Cybercab.” Musk hasn’t said whether Cybertruck production moves elsewhere or ends entirely — Giga Texas is the only plant that builds it.
Musk also sketched the Cybercab’s future in a November 7 post: efficiency improvements coming will allow a 40 kWh battery pack, and “we will make this in liquid silver, so the colors are not too monotonous.” Treat both as plans, not specs on cars built today: no date, no range figure, no price, and Tesla has not published the current pack size. The 48 kWh figure circulating online came from the X user Musk was replying to, not from Tesla.
On buying one, nothing moved this week. Tesla’s stated target is still first Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026, starting small and likely businesses first — and there is still no order page, no reservation list, and no published price.
On the regulatory front, we can now see the shape of what Tesla filed with NHTSA on October 30 in the open audit query AQ26002: a one-page letter claiming the entire file is confidential business information, a blank placeholder where the standard-by-standard certification answer should be, and — the only substantive document — Tesla’s 30-page First Responder Interaction Plan. NHTSA’s Chief Counsel rules on the confidentiality claim under Part 512, and the agency has not found the Cybercab noncompliant with any standard. Separately, a defect petition (DP26010, opened October 9) alleges Model Y and Cybercab robotaxis exceed posted limits in active school zones; NHTSA must grant or deny it within 120 days of its September 23 filing. A petition is not an investigation, but it’s a second federal thread to watch.
The service: now running around the clock
Back to Wednesday night: at 8:31 p.m. Pacific on November 11, the Robotaxi account posted “Robotaxi now runs 24/7,” and Musk quote-posted it with “Robotaxi works 168 hours a week.” It covers every city where the service is available — the eight unsupervised cities: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth and San Antonio in Texas, plus Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. Until this week the hours ran 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. Tesla didn’t say whether the supervised Bay Area service is included, or which vehicles run overnight.
No new city launched this week. Dallas Cybercab service still hasn’t started — Tesla has given no date, though one independent estimate puts it around November 15, tied to the Dallas fleet reaching one million unsupervised miles (it stood at 608,130 on October 18, per Tesla’s first safety report). Cybercabs have been photographed at Tesla’s Dallas hub, unconfirmed by Tesla. Las Vegas still has no launch date, and Nevada’s 120-day clock to start operating runs to about mid-December by tracker estimates. Phoenix and Jacksonville: no dates.
One fleet number did move: Texas DMV registry tallies as of November 10 list 1,302 vehicles under Tesla Robotaxi, LLC — 729 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs — narrowly ahead of Waymo’s 1,297 registered in Texas. Those are registered vehicles, not cars in active service, and the count was 970 on October 25 — but it’s the first time Tesla has edged ahead of Waymo on the state’s books.
What I’m watching
Four things: the Dallas Cybercab launch, any day now if the mid-November estimate holds — it’s the first Cybercab expansion beyond Austin; the first customer Cybercab deliveries by the end of 2026, with seven weeks left and still no order page or price; NHTSA’s ruling on Tesla’s confidentiality claim, since the public still can’t see how Tesla certified a car with no steering wheel or pedals; and Las Vegas, the first big test of the service outside Texas and Florida, with the permit clock running toward mid-December.
Sources: Tesla Robotaxi account on X (November 11, 2026); Elon Musk on X (November 6–7, 2026); Electrek, “Tesla wants its sworn Cybercab answers to NHTSA kept entirely secret” (November 5, 2026); Tesla Robotaxi Tracker (updated November 11, 2026); Teslarati via Zacks on the Texas registry (November 12, 2026); TeslaNorth (November 7, 2026); Engadget (November 6, 2026); Tesla’s first Robotaxi Safety Report (October 21, 2026).
Photo: A Tesla Cybercab drives down Harrison Street in San Francisco, June 2026. Photo: 9yz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.
