PARIS - Tesla put its Cybercab on display in Europe for the first time on Monday, as the Paris Motor Show opened its press day with one of the two-seat robotaxis from the company's U.S. fleet parked on its stand. Visitors will be able to walk around the car but not ride in it, and Tesla has announced no plan to run the vehicle on European roads.
The car comes from "the operational robotaxi fleet in the United States," according to the show's organizer, which listed it on Tesla's stand, C25 in Hall 7.1 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in a Sept. 30 announcement based on a Tesla press release. Serge Gachot, the show's director, told Bloomberg News that it is the first time the Cybercab has been shown in Europe. Attendees will not be able to ride in the car, which has no steering wheel or foot pedals, Bloomberg reported.
Photos posted on X by attendees early Monday showed the Cybercab under a cover on the stand as press day began, next to an Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot in a glass case. The stand also holds the Model Y and Model 3, a Supercharger and Tesla Energy home charging products. The show opens to the public on Tuesday and runs through Oct. 18.
Alongside the static car, Tesla is offering free test drives in six Model 3s running its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software, a driver-assistance system that requires a human to stay attentive and that France has not approved. The sessions last about 25 minutes, run from the show's Autonomous Lab and are booked on site from Oct. 13 to 18, TeslAnt reported, citing the show's test program. XPeng is the only other carmaker offering assisted-driving drives in the lab. The organizer's page repeats Tesla's own figure that the software has covered more than 100 million kilometers in the European countries where it is authorized.
Europe has seen the Cybercab's shape before. Tesla toured the prototype through showrooms, including its Paris-Madeleine store, in late 2024, TeslAnt reported. The car in Paris this week is a production vehicle. In September, Tesla showed Cybercabs in Beijing and Shanghai, where Tesla China said the displays did not involve selling the car or launching driverless ride-hailing in the country.
Austin remains the only city where the public can book a Cybercab. Tesla opened paid rides there on Sept. 3 and said on Saturday that it now has more than 300 Cybercabs serving the city, with an executive naming Dallas as the next market but giving no date. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing how Tesla certified a car without conventional manual controls, and the company has until Oct. 30 to answer the agency's questions.
Tesla shares the halls with most of Europe's big carmakers. Stellantis plans to show more than 60 vehicles from eight brands and Renault about 50, Bloomberg reported, while BYD, XPeng and Volkswagen are also exhibiting. BMW pulled out of this year's show.
