Tesla announced July 3 that its robotaxi service is available in Miami, marking its first expansion outside Texas and California.
The announcement came via a post on Tesla’s official robotaxi X account: “Robotaxi now available in Miami.” According to Electrek, the coverage zone is a narrow slice of the broader metro, running through West Miami with corridors toward Doral and Sweetwater, with SR-826 forming the northern boundary and U.S.-41 the southern edge
Absent from the service area are Miami Beach, the airport, downtown Miami, and the overwhelming majority of Miami-Dade County. Austin, Texas, was the original home of Tesla’s unsupervised robotaxi operation, which debuted in June of last year before the company pushed into Dallas and Houston. Tesla had grouped Miami with Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas as cities it planned to enter during the first half of 2026, though that deadline gradually gave way to more ambiguous language about preparations being underway.
The Miami news helped lift Tesla shares by 1.5%, closing Monday at $399.51. The Miami launch arrives as the Austin operation remains limited in scale. According to Electrek, Austin city officials estimate the total Tesla fleet there at around 50 cars, though the subset running without any onboard Tesla employee has actually contracted over time, dropping from a high of roughly 25 down to approximately 14.