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Robotaxi fleet cost and ROI calculator

Change any number and the model changes with it. Nothing here is a forecast: it is a way of finding out which of Tesla’s unpublished figures your case actually depends on.

Tesla is taking interest from businesses that want to buy Cybercabs, but has not published pricing, delivery timing or owner-operator terms. So the two inputs that matter most are marked as assumptions, and you should treat any calculator that fills them in for you with suspicion. What is and is not published is kept on its own dated page.

What the fleet earns

Vehicles in the fleetPrice per vehicleAssumption$Tesla has not published a price. Move this and watch the payback figure, not the monthly one.Paid miles per dayMiles driven per paid mileRepositioning, returning from a drop-off and driving to a charger all burn energy and tread and earn nothing. 1.0 would mean the car never moves unpaid.Operating days per monthYour share of revenue, per paid mileAssumption$Tesla has not published how fares split with an owner-operator. This is the number your whole case turns on.

What it costs to run

Energy cost per mile$Interior cleans per weekCost per clean$Tires and maintenance per mile$Insurance per vehicle per month$Staging and parking per month$mersul subscription$Proposed launch pricing. Fleet Pro is $39 per vehicle per month.

Per vehicle, per month

$1,372

$2,880 in, $1,508 out · 48% margin

5,040 miles driven for 3,600 paid

Energy: $252
Cleaning and interior resets: $520
Tires and maintenance: $302
Insurance: $250
Staging and parking: $120
mersul subscription: $39
Card processing on vendor payments: $25

Fleet of 5, per month

$6,860

Months to cover the purchase

21.9

This is a model, not a forecast. It ignores financing, taxes, depreciation and the resale value of the vehicle, and it assumes every paid mile is actually sold. Two of the inputs above are marked as assumptions because Tesla has published neither, and the payback figure moves further on those two than on everything else combined.

What moves the answer

Four inputs decide almost all of it.

Revenue per paid mile: Move it by ten cents and the payback period moves by months. Tesla has not published how a fare splits with an owner-operator, so this is the number to argue about first.
Utilisation: Paid miles per day is not the same as miles driven. Deadheading between rides costs energy and tread and earns nothing, and no published figure exists for what the ratio will be.
Cleaning frequency: The one cost that has no equivalent in a private car and no driver to absorb it. Three interior resets a week is a guess; in a busy market it will be more.
Purchase price: It does not change the monthly figure at all — only how long you wait to get it back. That is why the model reports both.

The cost side is the part you can act on now.

Cleaning, tires, charging, glass, recovery and staging are the same work whatever Tesla eventually charges for the car. That is the half mersul is built for, and the half we are lining up vendors for now, market by market.

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