Tesla Robotaxi Now Runs 24/7 in Every City

Tesla’s Robotaxi service no longer has an overnight break. Tesla’s official Robotaxi account announced on X that rides now run 24/7 in every city where the service is available.

That covers all eight of Tesla’s unsupervised Robotaxi markets: Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. It includes both Model Y robotaxis and Cybercabs, though Cybercab rides are still limited to Austin for now.

How Robotaxi Got to 24/7

Tesla has been extending Robotaxi hours a little at a time over the past few months. Here’s how the schedule has changed:

• August: Tesla expanded hours to 6 a.m. through 10 p.m.

• Early October: Service extended until 11 p.m. as the Austin Cybercab fleet grew.

• Mid-October: Rides started running until midnight.

• Late October: Tesla pushed closing time to 2 a.m. for 20 hours of service a day.

• Last week: Rides started an hour earlier at 5 a.m., for 21 hours a day.

• This week: Robotaxi officially went 24/7 in every city.

That’s a jump from 16 hours of service in August to around-the-clock rides in about three months. Tesla enthusiasts had already spotted what appeared to be empty, unsupervised Cybercabs driving in Austin between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. before Tesla made it official.

Solving Nighttime Driving

The slow rollout came down to nighttime driving. In early October, Musk said the main thing Tesla needed to solve was spotting and avoiding animals at night, describing the challenge as detecting “grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark.” Tesla added hours gradually while it worked on the problem.

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Tesla originally planned to start running Robotaxis 24/7 in October, alongside a fleet-wide rollout of FSD v15. Tesla’s VP of AI, Ashok Elluswamy, had said v15 would unlock round-the-clock operations, and early builds were already being tested on some Robotaxi vehicles. That timeline slipped by a few weeks, and Tesla hasn’t said whether v15 is now running across the entire fleet.

More Hours, More Cities

The change comes as Tesla expands Robotaxi quickly. It launched in Fort Worth and San Antonio in back-to-back weeks, with San Antonio’s service area becoming its largest at launch, and it grew Austin’s service area by about 63% last week.

With 24/7 service now available everywhere Robotaxi operates (except in the Bay Area, where rides are still supervised), Tesla can focus on launching more cities and expanding Cybercabs beyond Austin, starting with Dallas this month.