Tesla's official Robotaxi account says select customers are now being invited to purchase a Cybercab for personal use, with the vehicle priced at US$29,990 before tax and delivery estimated in December in Austin, Texas. Tesla has not said who qualifies, and the car is not being offered for order in Australia.
The verified @robotaxi account, a Tesla-affiliated business account, posted at 10:27am AEDT on 14 November 2026 (13 November, 23:27 UTC): "Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use." The post includes a screenshot of a Tesla order page.
Select customers are now being invited to purchase Cybercab for personal use
The page in that official image prices the Cybercab at US$29,990, excluding taxes. An Autonomy Subscription is listed at US$299 a month, with the note: "One month included with purchase. Subscription and regular vehicle maintenance required to operate." A second line says: "Price shown excludes taxes and is billed separately each month until canceled. Terms apply." Estimated delivery is December 2026, with delivery shown as Austin, TX. The amount due today is a US$1,000 non-refundable order deposit. The estimated purchase price is again US$29,990, excluding taxes. Placing the order, the page says, means agreeing to a Cybercab Order Agreement, Tesla's terms of use, an Autonomy Subscription Agreement and a privacy notice.
Tesla has not said publicly that the invitations are limited to Austin, or who qualifies. The order page shows deliveries in Austin, Texas.
At the Reserve Bank of Australia's 4pm rate on 13 November 2026 of US$0.6804 per Australian dollar — the latest figure published before this article was checked — US$29,990 is about A$44,077 on a straight conversion. The US$1,000 deposit is about A$1,470, and the US$299 monthly subscription is about A$439. That is a currency conversion only, not an Australian price, and it includes neither tax nor on-road costs.
A customer-shared email, and what Tesla has not said
Before the official post, a customer, Matt Holm (@MattHolm3), shared screenshots of a Tesla email titled "Cybercab Reservations Now Open." The email, which should be read as customer-shared rather than as a notice Tesla published itself, is headed "Early Access, Limited Release" and says: "Order your own Cybercab for personal use.*" It continues: "Cybercab is making transportation more efficient, affordable and accessible than ever before." The asterisk is visible in the shared screenshots; the footnote it points to is not. Sawyer Merritt quoted those two sentences when he circulated the same email.
The order page is not a public configurator on tesla.com that anyone can open. It is an invitation to selected customers. Tesla has not published a list of who is being invited, or the criteria it is using.
How this sits with what Tesla had already said
Tesla began offering Cybercab rides in limited areas of Austin on 3 September 2026. Its Q3 2026 update, furnished to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, says the company "started providing Robotaxi rides using Cybercabs on September 3 in Austin" and "began deployment of Cybercab into our Robotaxi fleet in Austin."
The public Robotaxi interest form remains a request to "be considered for future Robotaxi opportunities," not an open order form. Tesla's Robotaxi page still points people "interested in operating your own Robotaxi fleet or working with us" to that form.
On Tesla's 21 October 2026 earnings call, unofficial transcripts of the official webcast attribute to Lars Moravy, vice president of vehicle engineering, the remark that Tesla was "trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year, 2026," starting small, with current Texas production going to Tesla's own Robotaxi fleet. The same unofficial transcripts attribute to Elon Musk the comment that "the vast majority of the Cybercab stuff will be essentially Tesla-owned and transport as a service." Tesla has not published a written transcript of that call. Today's official invitation is the first Tesla account confirmation that selected customers are being asked to buy a Cybercab for personal use. It is not, by itself, a confirmation that cars have been delivered.
The regulatory cap Tesla has not addressed for private sales
When the Austin rides began, Reuters reported that "federal regulations limit the number of vehicles any manufacturer can sell without a steering wheel and pedals," while established manufacturers can deploy an unlimited number of such vehicles for testing. In a separate Reuters analysis the following day, Reuters said NHTSA's exemption process caps deployment at 2,500 vehicles a year for vehicles that do not comply with federal safety standards. That report also said Tesla engineering chief Lars Moravy had written on X earlier in the year, without offering details, that the Cybercab would not be subject to that cap, and that NHTSA had previously said Tesla had not applied for the exemption.
Tesla has not, in the official invitation or the order-page wording visible in the @robotaxi image, explained how it is handling the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), or that exemption cap, for private sales. That remains unclear.
Not on sale in Australia
Nothing in the official post or the order page opens Cybercab ordering in Australia. Tesla Australia & New Zealand has described the car as a display, not a product you can buy here. On 15 September it posted, "Catch Cybercab on display in AU & NZ," and on 4 November, "Cybercab officially on Melbourne ground." EV Select covered that Melbourne arrival at the time.
Does this meet MKBHD's stated test?
The invitation is the backdrop for a public pledge Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, has himself called a bet. EV Select found no post from @MKBHD responding to the invitation in a search of his account from 23:00 UTC on 13 November 2026 through the morning of 14 November (AEDT).
A couple of days after Tesla's October 2024 We, Robot event, Brownlee posted on X a link to his video The Tesla Robotaxi is Confusing.... In that video he quoted Elon Musk as saying, "We're gonna have this vehicle out for $30,000 before 2027," and replied: "No they're not, there's just no way that they're actually gonna be able to do that. I mean if they do, let's say they do, I will shave my head on camera."
On 18 February 2026, AEDT (17 February, 21:40 UTC), after Tesla posted that the first Cybercab had come off the production line at Gigafactory Texas, Musk replied "Gonna happen 😂" to a Whole Mars Catalog post that quote-posted that announcement.
On 4 September 2026, the morning after Tesla's limited-invite Cybercab event in Austin, Brownlee posted a follow-up video titled I Made a Bet with Tesla. In it he restated the terms in his own words:
So, yeah, the bet is, it's simple. It's that the promise that they made on stage will not happen. That golden robotaxi with two seats and no driver and no steering wheel and no pedals will not ship to regular people like you and me for $30,000 before the end of this year. And I said I'd shave my head if they do.
He added that his hair was "safe… for now," and invited someone to take the other side: if he is wrong, he will "shave my head on camera for a video and donate to cancer research"; if they are wrong, "you shave your head at the end of 2026." He has not, in the posts or videos EV Select has seen, named or acknowledged a counterparty. An offer from @ScottTArcher was not acknowledged by Brownlee, and is not treated here as an accepted bet. A June 2025 MKBHD post that begins "A bet is a bet" refers to an unrelated Waveform episode about Apple's WWDC, not the Cybercab, and is excluded.
Whether today's official record meets that test is EV Select's analysis of Brownlee's own words, not a ruling by him, and it is not a declaration that anyone has won. Set against the four parts he stated:
- Two seats, and no steering wheel or pedals. That design description was already on Tesla's Robotaxi page, and nothing in the official invitation changes it. Those parts of the test are met on Tesla's current product description and on the order page Tesla posted.
- US$30,000 or less. The official order page shows US$29,990, before tax, which is under US$30,000. That part of the test is now met on Tesla's order page. People will argue over the required US$299-a-month Autonomy Subscription, which the page says is "required to operate" after the included first month. Brownlee's stated test was a purchase price of $30,000, not a monthly fee; the subscription is still a point of contention, not a reason to call the test settled either way.
- Shipping to regular people before the end of 2026. A US$1,000 non-refundable deposit and an estimated December delivery to selected, invited customers are not the same as cars having "shipped to regular people." The test resolves only if Cybercabs are actually delivered before 31 December 2026. Tesla has not said that has happened, and it has not said the invitations are open to regular people at large.
