Tesla has more vehicles listed on Texas’s automated vehicle registry than Waymo, EVwire reported Nov. 11, after a check of the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles list showed 1,302 vehicles registered to Tesla Robotaxi, LLC and 1,297 to Waymo LLC. EVwire’s Robotaxi Tracker, which cites a Nov. 11, 5:26 a.m. CT pull of the same TxMCCS register, matches those totals. Robotaxistats, which also reads the state list, put Tesla at 1,302 as of Nov. 10 PT.
Why it matters: The figures count vehicles authorized for driverless operation, not how many are giving rides. EVwire said the two companies together account for about 76% of the 3,424 vehicles registered by 17 companies in Texas, with Avride a distant third at 344.
EVwire said Tesla’s lead flipped just before midnight Nov. 10, Texas time, when a batch of 20 Model Ys took the automaker from 1,282 to 1,302. Cybercab registrations have held at 573 since Oct. 27, while Tesla has added 222 Model Ys since then, for 729 Model Ys in the Texas fleet, according to that report, which decodes models from VINs through NHTSA. Robotaxistats showed a different model split as of Nov. 10 PT — 671 Model Ys, 573 Cybercabs and 58 unlabeled — because it had not yet assigned models to newer VINs.
Tesla had only 42 vehicles on the register in late May against 619 for Waymo, EVwire said. The tracker lists Tesla’s authorization number as AV8313426653583 and Waymo’s as AV8712526941758.