An assigned covered stall
A numbered bay in the XNA-1 book — row B or C, under canopy, on a charging pad. Your vehicle has one address and it stays yours.
XNA-1Depot stalls · Northwest Arkansas
Buy the cab. We run the yard.
A Cybercab still needs somewhere to live. Between rides it has to park, charge, get cleaned and stand ready — and that work does not disappear because the steering wheel did. You own the vehicle. We operate the depot it comes home to.
Nothing is operating yet.
There is no depot, no stall and no service. This page exists to find out whether anyone here wants one. Joining the list costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and there is no deposit to pay — if anyone asks you for money for a Cybercab stall today, in this market or any other, that is worth a second look.
01 — What a stall includes
The operations layer, and nothing you did not ask for.
Charging, by whatever the car actually takes
The production Cybercab has a NACS port and no onboard AC charger, so DC is the only way in and the stalls are built for that. Inductive pads go in when Tesla ships them, at no change to your rate. Energy is rebilled at cost plus a stated margin, not marked up quietly.
Interior resets between rides
Cleaning treated as a staffed job rather than something done when there is time. One express cycle a day is in the fee, a second on the same day is $10, and a biohazard deep clean is its own flat fee — all three printed below rather than discovered on an invoice.
Secure overnight storage
Fenced and gated yard, cameras, monitored alarm and patrol. A depot of driverless vehicles is a target, and we would rather say what the answer is than imply there is nothing to answer.
Incident intake
A stopped vehicle, a scene to clear, a call from a fire crew. We take it, log it, and hand you the record — including a reference for anything escalated to the manufacturer.
One statement a month
Per-vehicle uptime, what was spent, what it earned, what we charged. The same numbers we run the depot on.
02 — Indicative pricing
What it would cost, and why we will not pretend that is final.
A stall fee depends on how many stalls exist. The yard, the canopy, the building and the crew cost very nearly the same whether the book is full or half empty, so the price per stall falls as the book grows. Publishing a firm number before the book is sized would be a number we could not keep.
A numbered bay in the XNA-1 book that is yours whether the car is in it or out earning. One address, always free when it comes home.
breaks even at 59% of a 48-stall bookPark in whatever bay is free. Everything else is identical — the stall simply is not held for you, and that is most of what the other price buys.
breaks even at 83% of a 48-stall bookA car with a dead pack costs more to fix than it is worth, and it still has to sit somewhere. Ground, a fence and a camera — no charging, no cycle, ten minutes of attention a month. A written agreement is required before one comes in.
marginal cost on empty yard is about $25- Onboarding, once
- $250 per vehicle
- Energy
- rebilled at cost plus 15%
- Second cycle, same day
- $10
- Biohazard deep clean
- $99 on plan, $150 off it
- Deposit
- none, and none is coming
A covered, charged bay
Under canopy, on a charging pad, in a fenced yard. Dedicated or from the shared pool, depending on which price you are on.
One express cycle a day
Plugged in on arrival, interior trash cleared, screen and seats wiped with electronics-safe cloths, glass done. Three to five minutes while it charges. A second cycle on the same day is $10 — most days a cab does not need one, and you should not pay for it on the days it does not.
Weekly condition check
Tyre pressures set for range rather than ride, tread and wear inspected, fluids topped. Written down and on your statement, because a cab nobody drives is a cab nobody notices is wearing out.
Secure overnight storage
Fenced and gated yard, cameras, monitored alarm and patrol. A yard full of driverless vehicles is a target, and we would rather answer that than imply there is nothing to answer.
Incident intake, around the clock
A stopped vehicle, a scene to clear, a call from a fire crew. We take it, log it, and hand you the record — including the reference for anything escalated to the manufacturer.
One statement a month
Per-vehicle uptime, energy used, cycles run, what was spent and what we charged. The same numbers we run the depot on.
This price has been wrong twice, and here is the working. $650 broke even at 91% occupancy, because it charged a premium for the stall and gave the cleaning away — and cleaning is the one cost here that grows with use. $499 fixed that structure and reached 88%, but nobody had yet asked what a cab actually costs to serve. Spread the building and the crew across customers by the space each one holds and the minutes each one consumes, and a dedicated stall comes to about $734 a month. At $499 the membership side was quietly paying for the cab owners — an unfairness running in the opposite direction to the one anyone worries about.
Why the shared bay is $350 cheaper. A dedicated stall is reserved whether the car is sitting in it or out earning — about 1,150 weighted stall-hours a month against a membership customer’s thirty. That reservation is the expensive half of what you are buying. Give it up and the price falls with it; everything else is identical.
The version we did not publish: $499 all inclusive, with charging and both daily cycles thrown in. That breaks even at 171% occupancy, which is not a price at all — no book size reaches it. Free energy is about $84 a month of cost earning nothing, and the second daily cycle is another $146 of labour. Worth being precise about why: it is the cheap fee that makes the bundle impossible, not the bundle itself. If anyone quotes you all inclusive at a number like that, this is the arithmetic they are hoping you will not run.
03 — Run the numbers yourself
We are not going to tell you what your car will earn.
Other regional sites publish projected returns per vehicle. Every one of those rests on a network split Tesla has never released. Here is the arithmetic instead, and the four things nobody knows — including us.
Your side of it, per vehicle per year
- Paid miles × fare per mile = gross
- Less the network share unpublished
- Less insurance get a quote — it is the big one
- Less energy, tyres, wear rebilled or billed direct
- Less our depot fee $549–$899/mo indicative
- Less depreciation your accountant, not us
- What a fleet operator is paid
- Tesla has published no operator terms and no network split.
- How many paid miles a cab does here
- Northwest Arkansas is about 570,000 people. Austin models assume 50,000 paid miles a year in a metro four times the size.
- What insurance costs
- Driverless operation has no actuarial history. This is the largest knowable unknown and it needs a quote, not an estimate.
- When Arkansas approves anything
- No published processing time for an autonomous vehicle programme application.
- Whether the vehicle can be sold to you at all
- NHTSA is auditing how Tesla self-certified a car with no steering wheel, and Tesla holds no Part 555 exemption. Until that settles, private ownership of a Cybercab is not a settled thing.
If those four resolve badly, this does not work for you and we would rather you found that out on your own spreadsheet than on our invoice.
04 — What we never do
The short list, so it is on the record.
- Take title. The vehicle is registered to you and stays that way.
- Take equity in your vehicle or your earnings.
- Rebrand your cab as ours. The body stays stock and the brand mark on the rear quarter is opt-in.
- Operate the manufacturer’s network, or promise you a place on it.
- Guarantee ride demand, a fare, or a return.
What we do require
- A unit number on both sides
- At least 3 inches tall, plus a windshield placard. This is the one thing that is not optional — it is what a fire crew reads at night, and our responder page promises them it will be there. The brand mark beside it is entirely your choice.
- Current registration and insurance
- The vehicle is yours and so is the paperwork. We hold copies and flag them before they expire.
05 — Join the list
Book one opens when the depot is secured. Not before.
Tell us you would want a stall and roughly how many. That is the single most useful thing anyone can do for this project right now — it is the number that decides whether the depot gets built at all.
Or write to robotaxinwa@gmail.com — particularly if you have property, power, or more than one vehicle in mind.