Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Hits 25 Vehicles in Texas — SkimNews
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- Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi fleet grew to 25 cumulative vehicles across Austin, Dallas, and Houston, with growth driven mostly by Austin additions over the past two months after months of flatlining
- Dallas and Houston each launched on April 18 with a single vehicle and have since grown to 3 each, while Austin accounts for 19 of the 25 total
- Tesla has 165 total active vehicles seen in the last 30 days, but 107 of those are in the Bay Area running supervised Full Self-Driving rather than the unsupervised Robotaxi service
- Waymo operates approximately 3,000 robotaxis across 10 US cities, completes over 500,000 paid trips per week, and raised $16 billion in February to fund expansion to London and Tokyo
- Tesla's 25 unsupervised vehicles operate less than 30% of the time within small geofenced Texas areas that have minimal autonomous vehicle regulations
- Tesla has already pushed back its expansion timeline for five additional cities originally targeted for the first half of 2026
Why it matters: A full year after launch, Tesla's unsupervised fleet sits at 25 vehicles — well below the ~100 the article's author considered a pessimistic expectation. With Waymo running roughly 3,000 robotaxis and Tesla's five planned city launches already delayed, the gap between Musk's stated ambition and operational reality is widening rather than narrowing.
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