# Tesla's new Cybercabs use no rare earth metals

**URL:** <https://discussion.fool.com/t/teslas-new-cybercabs-use-no-rare-earth-metals/126290>\
**Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\
**Created:** [September 4, 2026, 8:49am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/teslas-new-cybercabs-use-no-rare-earth-metals/126290 "2026-09-04T08:49:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 8:49am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/teslas-new-cybercabs-use-no-rare-earth-metals/126290/1 "2026-09-04T08:49:56Z")

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… talk about being resilient through thick and thin. {{ LOL }}

> **[Tesla's new Cybercabs hit Austin roads without steering wheel controls](https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/teslas-steering-wheel-free-cybercabs)**
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> Elon Musk's Tesla has deployed dozens of Cybercabs without steering wheels or pedals in Austin in a bid to expand its fully driverless taxi service.

intercst

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**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 9:41am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/teslas-new-cybercabs-use-no-rare-earth-metals/126290/2 "2026-09-04T09:41:25Z")

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> [@intercst](#):
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> … talk about being resilient through thick and thin. {{ LOL }}

Musk sees the risk of depending on supply chains that work well until they break. Supply chains are great while not tarnished by politics, local or international.

The Captain

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**Author:** ![AdrianC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/adrianc/32/4898_2.png) [@AdrianC](https://discussion.fool.com/u/AdrianC)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 11:06am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/teslas-new-cybercabs-use-no-rare-earth-metals/126290/3 "2026-09-04T11:06:36Z")

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No rare earths in the motor. It uses an induction motor:

“The first AC commutator-free polyphase induction motors were independently invented by [Galileo Ferraris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Ferraris "Galileo Ferraris") and [Nikola Tesla](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla "Nikola Tesla"), a working motor model having been demonstrated by the former in 1885 and by the latter in 1887.”

Millions and millions are used in factories. Simple, cheap, reliable. Modern electronics needed for control, of course.

Front drive units in other Teslas are induction motors.