Tesla begins Cybercab production

Tesla began Cybercab production at Gigafactory Texas on April 24, even as its public Robotaxi service still runs on Model Y vehicles in Texas. (statesman.com) (tesla.com) Tesla’s Robotaxi page says autonomous rides are currently offered in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, and says Cybercab rides will come later. (tesla.com) Tesla also released its Robotaxi app for Android on April 24, nearly a year after the iPhone version launched in September 2025. (electrek.co) The Android app lets riders request a Tesla vehicle, see the arriving car’s license plate, change climate settings, move the drop-off point, and pay with Google Pay. (electrek.co) (play.google.com) For now, those rides are in specially configured Model Y vehicles, not Cybercabs. Tesla says the service is “starting with Model Y,” while Cybercab is described as a future addition. (tesla.com) (electrek.co) That gap matters because Tesla used its April 22 earnings call to say older Hardware 3 cars cannot achieve unsupervised Full Self-Driving with their current computers. (notateslaapp.com) (teslanorth.com) Tesla said the fix is not just a computer swap. Hardware 3 cars would need newer cameras, updated wiring harnesses, and a newer onboard computer to reach the AI4 standard. (notateslaapp.com) On that call, Elon Musk said the bottleneck is memory bandwidth, and Tesla North reported he said Hardware 3 has one-eighth the memory bandwidth of Hardware 4. (teslanorth.com) Tesla said it plans dedicated retrofit hubs in major cities rather than pushing that work through existing service centers, and it also offered discounted trade-ins for some owners. (notateslaapp.com) The immediate picture is two-track: Tesla has started building the purpose-built Cybercab, but the live Robotaxi network is still a small Texas service built around Model Y vehicles and a newly expanded app. (statesman.com) (tesla.com) (electrek.co)