EVwire brief: Tesla's Robotaxi service now runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in every city where it is available, the official Robotaxi account announced on X.
The change closes the last overnight gap in Tesla's schedule. Since late October, Robotaxi rides had been available from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., with Austin opening an hour earlier at 5 a.m. from November 8. In late August, the service was running just 16 hours a day.
Tesla did not list the cities covered by the change. Its unsupervised Robotaxi network currently spans Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth and San Antonio in Texas, along with Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida.
Here's the Robotaxi account's announcement on X:
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How Robotaxi's hours got to 24/7
Tesla has adjusted Robotaxi's service hours several times since launch, with most of the gains coming in the last six weeks:
June 22, 2025: Robotaxi launched in Austin with rides from 6 a.m. to midnight.
September 2025: Hours stretched to 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., or 20 hours a day. Tesla announced the same window for its Bay Area ride-hailing service on September 13.
August 26, 2026: Tesla set hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, in its unsupervised cities, after pulling back the late-night cutoff earlier in the month. The Bay Area service, which runs with a safety driver, kept its 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. window.
October 3, 2026: Closing time moved to 11 p.m.
October 17, 2026: Rides ran until midnight.
October 23, 2026: Austin's closing time moved to 1 a.m., alongside a geofence expansion to the Circuit of the Americas ahead of the F1 weekend.
October 30, 2026: The Robotaxi account listed new hours of 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., or 20 hours a day.
November 8, 2026: Austin's start time reportedly moved to 5 a.m., for 21 hours of daily service.
November 12, 2026: Robotaxi went 24/7 in every city where it operates.
Tesla Robotaxi went from 16 hours of daily service in August to 24/7 in under three months.
Nighttime driving was the main hurdle. When Tesla moved the closing time to 11 p.m. in early October, Elon Musk explained what was holding the company back:
Literally trying to avoid grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark.
During Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21, Tesla said it was aiming to run Robotaxi around the clock by the end of 2026. It got there with about seven weeks to spare.
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Context:
The longer hours come as Tesla's Robotaxi network keeps growing in size. In the past few weeks alone, Tesla launched Robotaxi in Fort Worth with a 143-square-mile geofence and in San Antonio with a 275-square-mile one, while expanding Houston to about 250 square miles and Austin to about 440 square miles. Cybercab rides are also expected to begin in Dallas this month.
The fleet behind those rides is growing, too. Tesla briefly overtook Waymo on the Texas automated vehicle register this week, though Waymo has since edged back ahead. As of the morning of November 12, the EVwire Robotaxi Tracker shows Waymo with 1,305 registered vehicles in Texas against Tesla's 1,303, made up of 730 Model Ys and 573 Cybercabs. Note that the register counts vehicles a company is authorized to run, not vehicles actively giving rides.
Source: Robotaxi on X, EVwire Robotaxi Tracker
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