Tesla says it wants Cybercabs in customer driveways by the end of 2026, turning a robotaxi project into something at least a few private owners can park at home. Lars Moravy, the company's vice president of engineering, confirmed the target on Tesla's third-quarter earnings call this week.

The plan comes after a year of Elon Musk promoting Cybercab as the center of Tesla's ride-hailing plans. Right now, every Cybercab rolling off the line goes straight into Tesla's own robotaxi fleet, and none go to buyers.

Moravy told investors that current production "is going into Tesla's internal robotaxi fleet." Customer deliveries are still a stated goal.

Paid rides began in Austin's robotaxi service on September 3, months before this delivery timeline surfaced. Tesla calls the initial end-of-year deliveries "small," a pilot run to study how ownership, delivery, and fleet management work once cars leave its direct control.

The Cybercab itself has not changed since its reveal as a two-seat, purpose-built autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals. Tesla first floated selling the design to outside buyers last month at a Cybercab event in Austin.

Full autonomy still depends on software Tesla has not shipped yet. Owners today can subscribe to Full Self-Driving (Supervised), which still requires a human ready to intervene.

Tesla's AI chief Ashok Elluswamy has set an internal target for an unsupervised version in the second quarter of 2027.

Musk was blunt about where priorities sit. "Cybercab is primarily going to be something that is offered as like transport as a service, whereas our other cars would be more, you know, the cars that you'd want to own," he said on the earnings call.

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