Tesla’s Gold Cybercabs Head to Dallas in November as Musk Eyes ‘Transportation Domination’

Tesla is gearing up to take its gold-colored Cybercab robotaxi beyond Austin next month, the New York Post reported from the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Executives said the futuristic two-seaters — which began carrying paying passengers in September — will deploy in Dallas in November, and that Tesla plans to begin selling Cybercabs to outside fleet operators by the end of the year.

The expansion heats up a lopsided rivalry. Tesla’s broader robotaxi network, which also uses Model Y SUVs, serves six metropolitan areas across Texas and Florida, including Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa — but Tesla has never disclosed how many paid robotaxi trips it provides. Waymo, by contrast, operates more than 4,000 self-driving vehicles across more than a dozen US cities and, per Alphabet, surpassed 500,000 fully autonomous rides per week earlier this year, with commercial service in 15 US markets including Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja signaled ambitions far beyond ride-hailing: “We’re starting with getting people from one place to the other, but we want to basically own transportation of any kind on Earth.” That pitch will be tested against real economics — fleet sales, per-mile pricing, utilization — in a market where Waymo already has scale and regulators are watching every step.