Tesla says customers can add their own vehicles to the robotaxi fleet next year — will it happen?
The Verge Andrew J. Hawkins ● Covered by 2 sources
Tesla says owners may add their cars to its robotaxi fleet in Q2 2027. That gives Musk’s long-running promise an actual date — and a very distant one.
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Tesla has finally put a date on one of Elon Musk’s favorite promises: letting owners add their own cars to the company’s robotaxi fleet. On today’s third-quarter earnings call, the company said that should happen in the second quarter of 2027.
That timeline came from Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president for autonomous driving. He tied the plan to Tesla’s software work, saying the software for Cybercabs and the Model Y is the same, and that the company will soon be able to release that same software as part of its V15 release.
The detail matters because Tesla has been talking about this idea for years. It’s the first time the company has offered anything that looks like a deadline, even if the deadline is still a long way off.
And that long wait is doing a lot of work here. Tesla is not saying the feature is around the corner. It is saying, in effect, that customers should wait until 2027 before expecting their own vehicles to join the robotaxi fleet.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is classic Tesla: a shiny future, a very specific quarter, and a lot of faith required in between. The company has spent years selling tomorrow, and now tomorrow is just far enough away to be unverifiable until everyone’s moved on. That’s not a plan so much as a holding pattern with a ticker symbol.
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