Tesla Paid Robotaxi in Austin in June, 10K Teslabots in 2025 and Robotrucks 2026

By Brian Wang

Tesla has announced they they will have paid robotaxi without human drivers in Austin in June 2025 and they will thousands and perhaps ten thousand Optimus teslabots this year.

Third megapack factory is already being built but they did not say where yet.

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Tesla will also deploy robotaxi to California and other locations in the USA by the end of this year. It will be the Tesla internal fleet this year for robotaxi and then next year (2026) they will let Tesla customers add cars to the robotaxi network.

Tesla will have Tesla semi in production in 2025. Extrapolating Tesla FSD trucks, I, Brian Wang, put the pieces of Tesla Semi and FSD for trucks togther to conclude that Tesla will incorporate unsupervised FSD for Semi for Robotrucks in 2026.

Teslabot production version 2 should be out ideally early 2026 or latest mid-2026 and this will have production capacity levels of about 10,000 per month. Teslabot production could be 50,000-100,000 in 2026.

Teslabot costs at 1 million units per year should be about $20,000 each. The sale price will be based upon demand. If there is the expected strong demand then the cost per unit will be high. This is also expected to be the case for a robotruck capable Tesla semi.