Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly announced on the X platform on 4/24: “Cybercab has started production.” He also attached a 38-second production line video filmed at Gigafactory Texas. This is the first official confirmation that Cybercab has officially entered the mass production stage since it debuted in October 2024.
Cybercab has started production pic.twitter.com/MAeswanf96
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 24, 2026
Mass production cadence matched to consumer electronics
According to Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call materials, the design of Cybercab’s production line is closer to the high-volume production cadence of consumer electronics than to traditional car assembly. The targets Musk gave in the earnings call are: one car every 10 seconds—meaning annual production capacity could theoretically reach as high as 5 million vehicles. Early output is intentionally conservative, and will gradually climb in an exponential manner as the end of the year approaches.
Why this moment is worth noting
Cybercab is Tesla’s first vehicle originally designed natively for Robotaxi use: no steering wheel, no pedals, and a two-seat layout. It relies entirely on Tesla’s FSD autonomous driving stack to operate and carry out missions. The start of mass production means Tesla is moving Robotaxi from a “software vision” to a “hardware reality,” and it also lays the manufacturing foundation for its planned Robotaxi fleet and autonomous driving services.
What to watch next
The real pace of production ramp-up vs. the end-of-year target gap
The regulatory approval progress for FSD in an unsupervised mode
The operating model for the first batch of Cybercab deliveries (company-owned fleet vs. private owners)
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