EVwire brief: Tesla now has more driverless vehicles registered in Texas than Waymo, with 1,302 vehicles registered to its Robotaxi service against Waymo's 1,297.
The lead change shows up in the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) automated vehicle registry, which lists 1,302 vehicles under Tesla Robotaxi, LLC as of November 11.
A quick note: EVwire is now tracking the register itself, too. Our new EVwire Robotaxi Tracker redraws its charts after every check of the TxDMV register, with PNG and SVG downloads.
Here's how the two fleets have grown since late May, with Tesla taking the lead on November 10:
Tesla went from 42 registered vehicles in late May to 1,302, edging past Waymo on Nov. 10.
Waymo LLC has 1,297 vehicles registered in the state, made up of 874 Jaguar I-PACEs and 423 Zeekr-built Ojais. Note that these are registered robotaxis, not robotaxis in service. TxDMV records show how many vehicles each operator has registered for driverless operation, not how many of them are giving rides at any given time.
Tesla and Waymo are far ahead of everyone else on the register, together accounting for about 76% of the 3,424 vehicles that 17 companies have registered in Texas. Avride is a distant third with 344 vehicles:
Registered vehicles by company on the Texas AV register, as of Nov. 11, 2026.
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Tesla's Texas fleet has grown more than thirtyfold since May 28, when the tracker's records show just 42 vehicles registered to Tesla's Robotaxi service against 619 for Waymo. Waymo has roughly doubled its registered Texas fleet over the same stretch.
Model Ys have driven Tesla's most recent gains. The lead flipped just before midnight on November 10, Texas time, when a batch of 20 Model Ys took Tesla from 1,282 to 1,302. Cybercab registrations have held at 573 since October 27, while Tesla has added 222 Model Ys since then, bringing its Texas Model Y count to 729.
This means Model Ys once again outnumber Cybercabs in Tesla's Texas fleet, after the Cybercab briefly took the majority in late October.
Here's how the full register, autonomous trucks included, breaks down by vehicle model, with one dot for each registered vehicle:
Vehicle models are decoded from VINs via NHTSA, not taken from TxDMV.
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Context:
Tesla's pass of Waymo caps a busy few weeks for its Robotaxi operations in Texas. The fleet topped 1,000 registered vehicles in late October, and Tesla has since launched unsupervised Robotaxi service in Fort Worth and San Antonio, bringing its Texas cities to five alongside Austin, Dallas and Houston.
Tesla is also already working on the next version of its purpose-built robotaxi. Elon Musk said over the weekend that efficiency improvements will allow an even more efficient Cybercab with a 40 kWh battery pack, down from 47.6 kWh, and that the updated version will come in liquid silver.
The next Cybercab is set to slim down to a 40 kWh pack, in liquid silver.
Waymo's Texas registrations, on the other hand, have tended to land in large batches, including jumps of 252 vehicles in early September and 144 in late September, per the tracker's records. Tesla, for its part, said during its Q3 2026 earnings call that Cybercab rides would launch in Dallas this month and that it is aiming to run Robotaxi around the clock by the end of 2026.
Source: EVwire Robotaxi Tracker, Texas AV Tracker, TxDMV
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