A Tesla Cybercab shares a downtown Austin street with mounted police. Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X
Tesla has added 150 more Cybercabs to Texas’s official automated vehicle registry, lifting its authorized robotaxi fleet in the state to 739 vehicles, according to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles’ public lookup.
The TxDMV listing for Tesla Robotaxi, LLC showed 739 vehicles on Thursday evening, up from 589 earlier this month. Every one of the new entries is a 2026 Tesla Cybercab, which takes the purpose-built two-seater from 169 to 319 on the state’s books, while the Model Y count stayed at 420.
That makes the Cybercab more than 43 percent of Tesla’s Texas roster, compared with under 29 percent before the update.
The registry exists because of Senate Bill 2807, the Texas law that requires any company running driverless vehicles commercially to hold an authorization from the state. According to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, that requirement became enforceable on May 28, 2026. Tesla Robotaxi, LLC received its authorization on May 14, and companies add or remove individual vehicles from their authorization through the state’s credentialing system.
Cybercab is Tesla’s robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals. The first ones appeared on the Texas roster on August 31, days before Tesla opened Cybercab rides to the public in Austin. By early October the registered count had reached 169, the same week Elon Musk said Tesla is being “extremely careful with autonomous safety” as it scales.
In Dallas, gold Cybercabs have been massing at Tesla’s Robotaxi hub, where dozens of them took over the fence line this week, even though Dallas riders are still being picked up in Model Ys.
Federal regulators are watching the same cars, too. NHTSA’s audit of how Tesla certified the Cybercab to federal safety standards estimates the affected population at 1,000 vehicles, and the agency has given Tesla until October 30 to file sworn answers. At 319, Texas’s registry now accounts for roughly a third of that estimate.
The registry only lists VINs, model year, make and model, so it leaves a lot unanswered. It does not show where the new Cybercabs will operate, whether they are headed for Austin, Dallas or another Texas city, or how many are carrying paying riders on any given day. Tesla has not commented on the additions, and the state’s list gives no reason for them.
The list does show which way Tesla is heading, though. It could have kept the Cybercab as a small Austin showcase while NHTSA’s questions are pending. Instead it has nearly doubled the car’s footprint on the Texas books since early October, and anyone in Austin or Dallas hoping to ride in one will be watching to see how quickly those 319 entries turn into gold cars at the curb.
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