EVwire brief: Drone footage captured by longtime factory observer Joe Tegtmeyer shows more than 70 Tesla Cybercab units gathered in outbound lots at Gigafactory Texas, offering one of the clearest external signs yet of a deliberate production ramp.
The footage shows multiple clusters of Cybercabs parked across the site, with several vehicles also visible moving through factory areas.
Tegtmeyer shared the update on X, stating, “I think this is now the largest single gathering of Cybercabs I’ve observed.”
Context:
Tesla confirmed last month that Cybercab production had started at Gigafactory Texas, following the first unit rolling off the line in February.
CEO Elon Musk has described the early phase as intentionally gradual, noting that new vehicle architectures and supply chains typically ramp slowly before accelerating sharply.
Recent sightings around the factory have included both development units fitted with temporary steering wheels and production-spec vehicles without driver controls.
The newly observed vehicles are widely believed to represent early validation, testing, and pre-deployment fleet units.
Giga Texas is ramping Cybercab production, albeit deliberately
The Cybercab is Tesla's first vehicle designed entirely around autonomous ride-hailing, eliminating steering wheels, pedals, and side mirrors.
Cybercab remains central to Tesla's long-term AI strategy
Elon Musk has previously said production ramps for both the Cybercab and Tesla Semi are expected to follow an S-curve, with substantially larger volumes anticipated toward the end of 2026 and into 2027.
Musk highlighted this in the Q1 2026 earnings call:
“You should expect that initial production of Cybercab… will be very slow, but then ramping up and going kind of exponential towards the end of the year and certainly next year.”
Tesla has already launched Unsupervised Robotaxi operations in select Texas markets, though the unmanned vehicles are Model Ys, not Cybercabs. The majority of the company’s Robotaxi fleet across Texas and California is still supervised.
Source: Joe Tegtmeyer on X
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