Waymo registered 144 autonomous vehicles in Texas on Thursday, 128 of them Ojai minivans, pushing its state fleet above 1,000 for the first time.
Alphabet’s self-driving unit had 1,133 vehicles on the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles registry as of Friday, according to ‘Robotaxi Tracker’, an independent dashboard that polls the state’s Motor Carrier Credentialing System hourly.
Most of the new Waymo units are Ojai minivans, the Zeekr RT-based robotaxi that Waymo began offering to select riders in May and opened to all riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix in August.
128 Minivans in One Day
Waymo’s Texas count stood at 989 late on September 22, Texas time, after a single Zeekr RT joined the registry, Robotaxi Tracker showed.
The count then held steady until shortly after noon on Thursday, when 113 Zeekr RTs were added in just over an hour, taking the total to 1,102.
A second wave of 16 Jaguar I-Pace SUVs and 15 Zeekr RTs followed later in the day, lifting the total to 1,133.
Thursday’s additions account for 144 of the 145 vehicles Waymo registered in the past seven days.
Registrations rose by 397 over the past 30 days, a 53.9% increase. Almost all of that came in two bursts.
On September 2, Waymo’s count jumped from 736 to 988 in about an hour, a net gain of 252 vehicles, made up of 136 I-Paces and 116 Zeekr RTs.
Together, September 2 and Thursday account for 396 of the 397 vehicles added over the past 30 days.
Jaguar I-Pace SUVs account for 783 of the registered vehicles and Zeekr RTs for 350, or 30.9% of the Texas fleet.
Zeekr RTs made up 7.4% of the 620 Waymo vehicles registered when Robotaxi Tracker began polling on June 11.
The registry lists 311 of the Zeekr RTs as 2026 models and 39 as 2025 models, while 692 of the I-Paces are 2024 models and 91 are 2021 models.
Before September, Waymo’s Texas registrations rose slowly, reaching 640 by late June, 677 by late July and 736 by Aug. 25, according to Robotaxi Tracker.
When Texas first published the registry, Waymo had 577 registered robotaxis in the state, according to records posted on May 28, CNBC reported.
Waymo’s Texas registrations have grown 96.4% since.
A registration does not confirm a vehicle is carrying riders.
Robotaxi Tracker says Waymo’s Texas roster is known to carry “test and not-yet-deployed cars.”
Of Waymo’s 1,133 registered VINs, Robotaxi Tracker has matched 37 to license plates spotted on the road, leaving 1,096 unmatched.
The tracker can match a vehicle only when its VIN appears in a sighting record, as it does for ride-synced Tesla trips and California-plated Waymos, so the figure does not show how many of Waymo’s Texas vehicles are in service.
Waymo has not publicly announced Ojai rides in any Texas city.
Every VIN on the registry falls under Senate Bill 2807, whose rules took effect on Feb. 27, 2026, according to the tracker.
Tesla Adds 50 in a Week
Tesla’s registered Texas fleet comprises 420 Model Ys and 69 Cybercabs.
Tesla added 50 vehicles over the past seven days and 298 over 30 days, a 156.0% increase from 191.
Earlier this week, Tesla added 28 robotaxis in Texas, lifting its fleet to 476, with 409 Model Ys and 67 Cybercabs.
Since then, Tesla has registered 11 more Model Ys and two Cybercabs.
Forty-five Cybercabs were on the registry when Tesla held the vehicle’s launch event on September 3, and public paid rides in Austin began the following day.
Cybercab service remains limited to Austin.
Tesla’s registry shows a higher match rate to vehicles on the road.
Robotaxi Tracker has matched 269 of Tesla’s 489 VINs to tracked plates, with 170 spotted in the last 30 days.
Tesla operates unsupervised robotaxi rides only in Texas and Florida, while its California service runs with safety drivers on Full Self-Driving software, which California regulators classify as SAE Level 2.
Four Texas Markets
Waymo serves four Texas cities: Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
Waymo first launched commercial service in Austin through an Uber partnership in March 2025.
On Thursday, the day of the registration surge, Waymo began offering fully driverless freeway rides in Austin.
The registry is statewide and does not show where vehicles operate.
Dallas, Houston and San Antonio followed in February, when invited riders gained access alongside Orlando.
Waymo opened Dallas to all riders on August 4.
Weather has disrupted Texas operations throughout the year.
Waymo resumed paid rides in San Antonio last week, five months after an unoccupied vehicle drove into a flooded road and was swept into Salado Creek.
Service covers about 60 square miles, including downtown and San Antonio International Airport, with a fleet of dozens of vehicles, and only riders with prior access can hail a car.
Waymo filed a voluntary recall on April 30 covering 3,791 vehicles, its entire US fleet then running fifth- and sixth-generation systems.
Waymo also paused all four Texas cities**, Atlanta and Nashville** on May 22 ahead of forecast storms.
15 Markets Nationwide
Waymo opened service in Las Vegas on September 14, its 15th market.
Nevada became the eighth state to host the service, and the initial zone spans nearly 24 square miles, with riders onboarded on a rolling basis from a waitlist of more than 100,000, Fox5 reported.
Waymo’s Nevada permit authorizes up to 1,000 vehicles in the first 12 months, against up to 5,000 for Tesla.
Two weeks earlier, Waymo launched paid rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, extending its network to 14 US cities.
Denver and San Diego, alongside Las Vegas, are the earliest markets running majority-Ojai fleets.
Waymo had imported more than 3,200 Zeekr vehicles through the Port of Los Angeles since 2024, including more than 2,600 in 2026, as of early August, paying a tariff of 127.5%, according to Forbes.
Another 725 Ojai entered the country in July alone, TechCrunch reported in August.
Waymo said on September 1 that it operates more than 4,000 robotaxis nationwide. About 80% of those vehicles are in California and Texas, TechCrunch reported.
Waymo reached 500,000 weekly rides in March, and targets more than one million rides per week by the end of 2026.
