Tesla opens Cybercab sales to invited customers
Two-seater without steering wheel costs $29,990 plus $299 monthly autonomy fee Musk himself calls too high, NHTSA audit of the safety self-certification remains open
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said vehicle demand is outpacing production as Full Self-Driving gains traction, while the company announced plans to launch Cybercab service in Dallas next month and expand its autonomous transportation network (Credit: Tesla).
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A Tesla Cybercab autonomous driverless vehicle on display at the 2026 Paris Motor Show in Paris, France, October 13, 2026.
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In a Friday post on X, Tesla said select customers are being invited to purchase the Cybercab for personal use — the first time the two-seat vehicle has been sold outside the robotaxi fleets it has served until now. The price is $29,990, plus a mandatory $299 monthly "Autonomy Subscription."
The gold-colored car has butterfly doors, no steering wheel and no pedals, which makes the subscription more than an upsell: without the software there is no way to drive it. Elon Musk said on X that the monthly fee is "too high," and that it should match the combined cost of Full Self-Driving and connectivity on Tesla's other models — roughly $115 a month. At the current rate, a subscriber hands Tesla the car's purchase price about every eight years.
The Cybercab entered production earlier this year and Tesla lists an installed annual capacity of more than 125,000 vehicles. Musk said this month that Cybertruck assembly at Gigafactory Texas will end around the middle of next year as the company pivots toward the robotaxi, and Lars Moravy, vice president of vehicle engineering, had said Tesla aimed to start selling the vehicle by the end of this year. Paid rides in a small Austin fleet began in September, Dallas service is planned for next month, and the robotaxi network already covers Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Orlando, San Antonio and Tampa. Nationwide availability, Musk wrote, will arrive as the company receives regulatory approvals.
Those approvals are not a formality. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an audit in September to review whether Tesla properly self-certified the Cybercab's compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards; Tesla has told the agency it believes the vehicle meets them. Private sales are starting with that review open, years after Musk first pledged fully autonomous vehicles for customers, as the Wall Street Journal notes.
Musk says demand is already outpacing production. Tesla shares last traded at $390.22, down 1.82 percent.