Tesla Robotaxi Now Runs Around the Clock in All Eight US Cities

Tesla Robotaxi service now operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in every city where it is available, the company said on Wednesday, November 12, removing the overnight pause that had limited rides since the service began. Robotaxi now runs 24/7, the Robotaxi account wrote on X. Every city we are available in. CEO Elon Musk quoted the post: Robotaxi works 168 hours a week.

The service covers eight cities with a fleet of Model Y and Cybercab vehicles. Five are in Texas: Austin, Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth and San Antonio. The other three are Miami, Orlando and Tampa in Florida. Tesla added Fort Worth on November 2 and San Antonio on November 9, when it also expanded its Austin service area. Las Vegas, Phoenix and Jacksonville are listed as coming soon, without dates.

Austin is by far the largest operation, with more than 400 autonomous vehicles registered there, while other cities have between a handful and a few dozen. On Thursday, Tesla had 1,303 vehicles on the Texas autonomous vehicle registry, 573 Cybercabs and 730 Model Ys, against 1,305 for Waymo, according to the Robotaxi Tracker site. Tesla Austin service area covered about 443 square miles after this week expansion, nearly three times the area Waymo serves in the city. The move to round-the-clock service came less than two weeks after the 2 a.m. cutoff was announced, and as Tesla prepares to sell the Cybercab, with first customer deliveries aimed for the end of this year.