Tesla CEO Elon Musk told investors during the automaker’s 2025 Annual Meeting on Thursday that production of the Cybercab will begin at the automaker’s Gigafactory Texas in April 2026.
The Cybercab is a two-door coupe that was revealed at last year’s “We, Robot” event. It’ll have the same computers and sensors that power Tesla’s current “Full Self Driving” (FSD) software in passenger vehicles like the Model 3 and Model Y, but this time it will supposedly be fully autonomous. (Private vehicles with FSD today require driver supervision and are not autonomous). It won’t have pedals or a steering wheel, Musk said.
However, that will largely depend on federal and local regulations. “If we have to have a steering wheel, it can have a steering wheel and pedals,” Tesla chair Robyn Denholm told Bloomberg last month.
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Even though the Cybercab’s underlying software will be the same, its manufacturing process will be vastly different, the company has previously said. It plans to use a novel “Unboxed” method where different parts of the vehicle are assembled separately, and then they come together at the end, unlike a traditional moving assembly line.
“Manufacturing for the Cybercab is closer to a high-volume consumer electronics device than a car manufacturing line,” Musk said during the shareholder meeting. “We should be able to achieve a net result of less than a ten-second cycle time, basically a unit every ten seconds,” he said, referring to an unusually fast production process.
Musk added that Tesla could theoretically build up to 5 million vehicles a year thanks to faster production—though, as history has repeatedly shown, Musk’s bold forecasts are best taken with a substantial serving of salt.
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The production update came after Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly voted in favor of Musk’s $1 trillion compensation plan. To get his paycheck, though, scaling robotaxis to 10 million operational units in the next ten years is a key target, along with selling 20 million passenger vehicles. Both of those are extremely ambitious targets.
It’s too early to gauge how much potential the robotaxi business has to deliver profits, but Musk now at least has the motivation to remain at Tesla for the foreseeable future and try to deliver what he has long been promising.
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