"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 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."
Production of the Cybercab is scheduled to begin at Gigafactory Texas in April 2026. The Cybercab is a two-door coupe that will use the same computers and sensors as Tesla's current Full Self-Driving (FSD) software but is intended to operate fully autonomously, subject to federal and local regulations. Tesla plans to manufacture the vehicle using an Unboxed method that assembles parts separately and joins them at the end, resembling consumer electronics production. The company aims for a cycle time of under ten seconds per unit, suggesting very high throughput and theoretical capacity approaching millions of vehicles annually. Shareholder approval of a large compensation plan ties Musk's payout to aggressive robotaxi and passenger vehicle scaling targets.
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