{"id":65647,"date":"2025-11-26T07:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65647\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:46:05","slug":"tesla-ceo-musk-says-austin-robotaxi-fleet-to-double-next-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/65647\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla CEO Musk says Austin robotaxi fleet to double next month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nov 26 (Reuters) – Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab<\/a> Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the number of robotaxis in Austin, Texas, will double in December, following the rollout of its self-driving service in the city in June<\/a>.”The Tesla Robotaxi fleet in Austin should roughly double next month,” Musk said in a post, opens new tab<\/a> on X, which is also owned by him.<\/p>\n

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It is not immediately clear how many robotaxis Tesla operates.<\/p>\n

Tesla’s robotaxi service currently operates in two cities, Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area, with safety monitors still required in the vehicles. The company last week also received a permit to operate a ride-hailing service in Arizona<\/a>.Musk said in October that he expected robotaxis to operate without safety drivers<\/a> in large parts of Austin this year and that robotaxis would be operating in eight to ten metropolitan areas by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

In July, he said he expected Tesla robotaxis to serve about half the U.S. population by year-end.<\/p>\n

After years of missed promises and several company closures due to high costs, tight regulations and federal investigations, the robotaxi industry has rebounded with Tesla, Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab<\/a> Waymo, and Amazon’s (AMZN.O), opens new tab<\/a> Zoox speeding up expansion.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema<\/p>\n

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