Tesla's 'Robotaxi' expansion looks like another stock pump before earnings
By Fred Lambert
Published on April 19, 2026.
Tesla has launched its Robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston, its first expansion since Austin, but there are currently virtually no cars available in these new markets. This follows a trend of Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis launching days before its Q4 2025 earnings call, which saw a 4% jump in Tesla's stock rise. However, the company's new Houston and Dallas deployments have only had 0% to 2% availability over the past 24 hours, with brief spikes to around 50% during a narrow morning window before dropping back to zero. This trend repeats repeated announcements of new Robotaxis launches days before the company’s Q1 2026 earnings call. The company”s stock is currently trading around $400, flat year-to-date, and trades at approximately 178x forward earnings, compared to industry peers.
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