Guide
Cybercab fleet management options, compared.
Once you own a Cybercab, somebody has to keep it charged, clean, repaired and earning. You can hand that to a management company, rent space at a depot that does it, or keep the decisions and run it with software. This page sets the three side by side and lists who is offering each.
Mersul is one of the options, so read this knowing who wrote it. Everything said about another company comes from its own website, linked beside it, and was checked on October 21, 2026. We are not affiliated with Tesla, Inc. or any company listed.
The approaches
Three ways to run a Cybercab fleet.
They differ less in what gets done than in who decides, who holds the physical space, and how the bill is worked out.
Full-service manager
You own the car and a management company runs it: charging, cleaning, repairs, and getting it back on the network. You receive a payout and a report.
Fits when: You want income from the car without being involved in running it, and you are comfortable agreeing terms that are set out in the management agreement rather than published.
Depot operator
You rent a stall at a lot that charges, cleans and stages your car between rides, and handles incidents nearby. The physical site is the product.
Fits when: Your cars will live in one market where the operator has, or is building, a depot, and you want a fixed place for them to charge and sit.
Run it yourself, with software
You keep the decisions. Software watches the fleet, tells you what needs attention and sends a local service provider within limits you set, then keeps the record of the work.
Fits when: You want to control what is spent and on what, keep all of your share of the fare, and use the local cleaners, tire techs and lots that already exist where your cars run.
Side by side
What changes between them.
These describe each approach in general. What a particular company does is in the list below it.
Who decides when the car is serviced
Full-service managerThe manager.
Depot operatorThe depot, for work done on its lot.
Run it yourself, with softwareYou, through approval limits you set. Unusual or expensive work comes to you.
How you pay
Full-service managerA share of ride revenue, a fee per car, or both.
Depot operatorA monthly fee per stall, sometimes plus a share of ride revenue.
Run it yourself, with softwareA subscription, and each job at the service provider’s price.
Where the car charges and parks
Full-service managerWherever the manager arranges.
Depot operatorOn the depot’s lot and chargers.
Run it yourself, with softwareYour own location, or staging and charging booked from local providers who rent out lot space.
Where it works
Full-service managerMarkets the manager operates in.
Depot operatorOnly cities with a depot.
Run it yourself, with softwareAny city with local service providers.
How much of your time it takes
Full-service managerThe least.
Depot operatorLittle, inside the depot’s market.
Run it yourself, with softwareSome. You set the rules and approve what falls outside them.
What you can see
Full-service managerWhat the manager reports.
Depot operatorWhat the depot reports, sometimes through an owner dashboard.
Run it yourself, with softwareEvery job, its cost and its completion record, as it happens.
Who offers what
The companies, in their own words.
Each row says only what the company publishes about itself, checked October 21, 2026. Where it does not publish something, the row says so.
- Auto AutoFull-service manager
Sets up and manages Cybercab fleets, with pre-ride safety checks, detailing, scheduled maintenance, and charging stations it installs and manages.
- Pricing:
- No fees or revenue share published.
- Status:
- Names Raleigh, North Carolina as its starting market. Does not say whether it is operating yet or when it will start.
- Cyber Fleet ServicesFull-service manager
Runs enrolled Cybercabs: dispatch, charging, cleaning, maintenance, tires, software updates and insurance coordination. Pays owners monthly.
- Pricing:
- A revenue share, with no percentage published. Joining is free. Owners can pause or withdraw a car with notice; the notice period is not stated.
- Status:
- Taking enrollment applications. Its FAQ says it operates Cybercab robotaxis but names no markets, launch date or fleet size.
- DockDutyDepot operator
A stall in a fenced lot with DC charging, cleaning between rides, staging, 24-hour incident response, maintenance coordination and an owner dashboard.
- Pricing:
- $475 to $550 a month per stall plus 13% to 15% of ride revenue, both lower for larger fleets. $1,000 onboarding per vehicle, against which a $450 refundable stall deposit is credited. Month to month, and the owner keeps title.
- Status:
- Pre-launch. Says no depot is open and no lease is signed. Orlando is its lead market, with a depot targeted for the fourth quarter of 2026, and it says it is not managing any client vehicle today.
- Robotaxi DepotDepot, through partner sites
Runs three lines of business. For owners, end-to-end fleet management: charging, cleaning, resets, staging and covered, access-controlled storage under one agreement, with incident dispatch and monthly per-vehicle reports. For commercial property owners, free EV chargers that charging operators fund, install and own. For depot hosts and operators, vehicles sent to fill their stalls. Its disclaimer says it is “a site sourcing and referral service.”
- Pricing:
- A monthly base plus per-mile usage, per vehicle. No amounts published.
- Status:
- Takes stall reservations for the depot serving your market. Names no cities or depot locations, and does not say whether any depot is operating.
- MersulSoftware
An owner console and a local service provider marketplace: shows what needs attention, sends a vetted local provider within your limits and keeps the completion record.
- Pricing:
- $49 a month plus $40 per vehicle, plus card processing at cost. No share of fares and no markup on service providers. Nothing billed until your first car is earning.
- Status:
- Pre-launch. Built and tested in our own simulation; not yet connected to a customer vehicle.
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Before you choose
Nobody on this page is running owner fleets yet.
Tesla is taking interest from businesses that want to buy Cybercabs, but has not published pricing, delivery timing or owner-operator terms. Until Tesla publishes how an owner’s car joins the ride network and what share of the fare it keeps, every option above — ours included — is preparing for terms nobody has seen.
That makes the questions to ask today simple ones. What share of your fares does the option take, and is it written down? Can you leave, and with how much notice? Who holds title to the car? And who decides what gets spent on it? The answers will matter more than any feature list once the cars are on the road.
Keep the decisions and the fares.
Mersul is the run-it-yourself option: a flat subscription, no share of your fares, and local service providers paid at their own price. Join the list and we will tell you when your market opens.