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Can You Buy a Tesla Cybercab? Tesla Is Trying to Deliver to Customers by the End of 2026

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10/25/2026 | The RED Review |

On Tesla’s Oct. 21 earnings call, vehicle engineering chief Lars Moravy said Tesla is “trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year, 2026.” He said every Cybercab built so far goes to Tesla’s own Robotaxi fleet, and Elon Musk said the vast majority will stay Tesla-owned. Tesla has not said who the first customers are or what a Cybercab costs.

Can you buy a Tesla Cybercab? Not yet, and maybe not as a private buyer at all. On Tesla’s third-quarter 2026 earnings call on Wednesday, Oct. 21, a shareholder asked when the Cybercab would be available for customer purchase or ownership. Lars Moravy, Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering, answered: “In short, we’re trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year, 2026.” He said all Cybercabs built on the Texas line “are currently going to our own internal Robotaxi fleet” and that Tesla will “start small.” Musk then said “the vast majority of the Cybercab stuff will be essentially Tesla-owned and transport as a service.” Tesla’s written Q3 update, filed with the SEC, does not mention Cybercab sales.

Key facts

This is what Tesla said and filed on Oct. 21, 2026:

  • Moravy said Tesla is “trying” to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026, a goal stated on the call and not in the filed update.
  • Moravy said all Cybercabs built so far go to Tesla’s own Robotaxi fleet.
  • Musk said the vast majority of Cybercabs will be Tesla-owned and sold as rides, while the Model 3, Model Y and Roadster are the cars people would own.
  • Tesla did not say whether the first customers are fleet operators or individuals, and did not give a price or an ordering date.
  • Tesla’s update says it began Robotaxi rides using Cybercabs in Austin on Sept. 3 and lists more than 125,000 Cybercabs a year of installed capacity in Texas.
  • The Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, and NHTSA is still reviewing how Tesla certified it under federal safety standards.
Gold Tesla Cybercab two-seat robotaxi driving across a San Francisco street
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What Moravy and Musk actually said

The question read on the call was, “When will the Cybercab be available for customer purchase/ownership?” Moravy’s full answer, from Tesla’s webcast as transcribed by The Motley Fool:

“We’re trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year, 2026. Obviously, we’re producing them in our line in Texas, but all of those are currently going to our own internal Robotaxi fleet. And as Tesla grows, we’ll mainly deliver fully designed autonomous vehicles to our customers. And Cybercab will be the first. And so as we start small this year, and we learn about all the things Ashok mentioned about delivery and ownership and fleet management of autonomous vehicles in customer hands, we’ll continue to scale that.”

Musk added: “Cybercab is primarily going to be something that is offered as like transport as a service whereas our other cars would be more the cars that you’d want to own like the 3 and the Y and whatnot, and Roadster, obviously.”

Read together, that is a goal to start a small number of customer deliveries this year, not a launch of retail orders. “Customers” was not defined. Reuters wrote that Tesla aims to sell Cybercabs “to the public,” and TechCrunch noted that Tesla posted an interest form for people who want to buy robotaxis around its September Cybercab event. Neither Tesla nor either outlet said a private buyer can order one today. If the first buyers turn out to be fleet operators, that would match Musk’s answer, but Tesla has not said so, and that reading is ours.

What changes for current Tesla owners

Nothing changes on the car you own today. The Cybercab is a separate two-seat vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals, and Tesla has not opened orders for it. The software in your car is still FSD (Supervised), which requires you to watch the road. On the same call, Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, gave a separate timeline for owners: “We suspect somewhere around Q2 next year is when we can turn on some of the first customer vehicles to be part of the Robotaxi fleet.” That is a target for 2027, not a feature you have now.

If you want a Cybercab, here is what you can do:

  1. Ride one first in Austin, where Tesla’s Robotaxi app offers Cybercab rides in its service area.
  2. Watch Tesla’s official accounts and ir.tesla.com for a price, an order page or a statement on who can buy.
  3. Treat any reseller or “reservation” offer with suspicion, because Tesla has not opened orders.
  4. Keep supervising FSD (Supervised) in your own car, because nothing on this call changed how it works.

The federal review

NHTSA opened audit query AQ26002 on Sept. 3, the day Tesla began commercial Cybercab service in Austin. The agency’s opening summary says it will examine the process and data Tesla relied on to certify the Cybercab and “the extent to which Tesla’s certification depended on determinations that certain FMVSS are inapplicable.” Tesla’s sworn answers are due Oct. 30, Reuters reported. NHTSA has not announced any finding that the Cybercab breaks a standard. The review is open, so a customer sale this year could depend on how it goes, though no one at Tesla or NHTSA has said that.

Answers

Can I order a Tesla Cybercab today?

No. Tesla has not opened orders or published a price. Moravy said Tesla is trying to start customer deliveries by the end of 2026.

Who said Cybercab sales would start by the end of 2026?

Lars Moravy, Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering, on the Oct. 21, 2026 earnings call. He said Tesla is “trying,” and the goal is not in Tesla’s filed Q3 update.

Will private buyers get Cybercabs?

Tesla has not said. Musk said the vast majority will be Tesla-owned and run as a ride service. Tesla did not say whether early customers are individuals or fleet operators.

How much will a Cybercab cost?

Tesla gave no price on the call or in the Q3 update.

Does this change FSD (Supervised) in my Tesla?

No. Elluswamy said the first customer cars could join the Robotaxi fleet around Q2 2027. Until then, FSD (Supervised) still needs you to supervise.

Sources

Also in The Brief: On the same call, Elluswamy said, “next month, we’ll be launching in Dallas,” in an answer about Cybercab, and CFO Vaibhav Taneja said Tesla plans to bring Cybercab to “some other cities before the end of this year.” That would be a ride service in a geofenced area, not car deliveries. Tesla’s written update does not mention Dallas, and Tesla has not given a date. Model Y Robotaxi rides already run in Dallas. Background: Tesla Says 300+ Cybercabs Now Serve Austin. Dallas Is ‘Soon,’ With No Date. · Are 75% of New Teslas Getting FSD (Supervised)?

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