Video shows at least eight finished Cybercabs staged at Giga Texas outbound lot
- Tesla’s Austin factory is showing finished Cybercabs in its outbound lot, days after the company said in its April 22 earnings update that Cybercab lines were being readied for production. - Drone observer Joe Tegtmeyer previously counted about 60 Cybercabs at Giga Texas on April 8 and about 14 control-free production-spec cars on April 17, indicating output is moving past prototypes. - Travis County just withheld 9% of Tesla’s tax rebate over incomplete compliance documents even after officials said the company beat jobs and investment targets. (communityimpact.com)
Tesla’s Austin factory is no longer just testing Cybercabs. Finished vehicles are now appearing in the outbound lot as Tesla says its Cybercab lines are being readied for production. (statesman.com) (assets-ir.tesla.com) The clearest official marker came on April 22, when Tesla’s Q1 2026 update said it had “further prepared lines for start of production” of Cybercab and the Tesla Semi. That put a company filing behind weeks of drone footage from Gigafactory Texas. (assets-ir.tesla.com) Austin drone observer Joe Tegtmeyer counted about 60 Cybercabs in the outbound lot on April 8, the largest grouping then seen at the site. On April 17, he captured roughly 14 newly built Cybercabs without steering wheels in the same holding area. (teslanorth.com) (notateslaapp.com) Those two sightings matter because the outbound lot is where finished vehicles are staged before transport or validation work. Earlier April footage also showed Cybercabs clustered near Tesla’s on-site crash-testing area, alongside cars still carrying temporary steering wheels and pedals. (teslarati.com) Tesla has been pointing to April 2026 as the Cybercab production start for months. Elon Musk told shareholders last year that Cybercab production would begin at Gigafactory Texas in April 2026, and the Austin American-Statesman reported this week that Tesla says it met that deadline. (insideevs.com) (statesman.com) The factory buildout around Cybercab is also getting larger. Tesla’s Q1 materials and permit reporting cited by Teslarati show site preparation at Giga Texas North Campus for an Optimus robot factory that could add more than 5.2 million square feet and target 10 million robots a year over the longer term. (teslarati.com) That expansion is unfolding while Tesla’s local incentive deal is under new scrutiny. On April 7, Travis County commissioners voted to withhold 9% of Tesla’s rebate for 2020-22 after county officials said documentation was incomplete in areas including safety, wages and environmental standards. (communityimpact.com) (kvue.com) County staff said Tesla still exceeded the original economic targets by a wide margin, with more than $5.8 billion invested at the property by 2022 and nearly 12,300 new jobs created. The rebate package was initially projected at about $14.65 million over 10 years. (communityimpact.com) The picture at Giga Texas is now straightforward: Tesla has an official production claim, repeated aerial sightings of finished Cybercabs, and a larger North Campus buildout taking shape beside the main plant. The next test is whether those staged cars turn into a sustained Austin robotaxi rollout later in 2026. (assets-ir.tesla.com) (statesman.com)
