One hundred driverless cars.One city.
Charlotte Cyber Fleet is building an autonomous ride network for the Queen City — starting with a handful of cars inside the 277 loop and growing to a hundred covering the metro.
How a hundred cars gets built
Fleets fail on operations, not software — charging, cleaning, insurance, downtime, curb access. We scale one depot at a time and only widen the map once the cars we already have stay busy.
Eight cars, one loop
A single South End depot with charging, cleaning bays, and a staffed remote support desk. Short trips, dense streets, tight radius.
- Uptown
- South End
- Dilworth
- Elizabeth
Twenty-five cars, all-day coverage
Everything inside 277 plus the neighborhoods that feed it. Late-night and event coverage begins here, where a fixed-shift fleet can't absorb the spikes.
- NoDa
- Plaza Midwood
- Wesley Heights
- Myers Park
- SouthPark
Sixty cars, CLT and the corridor
Airport runs are the workhorse trip: predictable, long enough to earn, and busiest exactly when drivers are scarcest. A second depot opens west.
- CLT terminal
- Wilkinson
- University City
- Steele Creek
One hundred cars, out to the ring
Full 485 coverage with on-demand reach past it. Three depots, rolling replacement, and enough density that a car is minutes away anywhere in the county.
- Ballantyne
- Matthews
- Concord
- Huntersville
- Lake Norman
What riding with us looks like
Three steps, and nobody to tip.
Call a car
Open the app, drop a pin. Dispatch assigns the nearest available car and gives you a live arrival time and a plate to match.
It shows up empty
Doors unlock for you alone. The cabin is cleaned between shifts and checked on every return to depot. Climate and audio are yours to set.
Ride and go
Fare is quoted before you accept and charged when you arrive. Support is one tap away for the whole trip, staffed by people in Charlotte.
Why here, and not somewhere with better weather
Charlotte is close to a purpose-built city for this. Wide roads, a legible grid, a real transit spine, and a demand curve that swings harder than any driver-based fleet can follow.
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A dense core with an expensive curb
Uptown and South End pack workers, apartments, and stadium traffic into a few square miles where parking costs more per day than a couple of rides. Short trips are exactly what a small fleet does best.
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One of the country's busiest airports
CLT moves an enormous number of connecting and originating passengers, and the 5 a.m. and 11 p.m. edges of that traffic are when human drivers are hardest to find. Cars that don't sleep own those hours.
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Demand that spikes on a schedule
Panthers and Charlotte FC at Bank of America Stadium, Hornets at Spectrum Center, race weekends at the Speedway, conventions all year. Predictable surges are a dispatch problem, and dispatch is what we do.
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Growth that hasn't stopped
Mecklenburg County keeps adding people faster than it adds lane-miles. Every year that gap widens, a shared car in constant motion gets more valuable than a private one parked 95% of the time.
What we actually operate
We don't build cars and we don't write self-driving software. We own the fleet and run everything around it: depots, charging, cleaning, insurance, permits, maintenance, uptime, dispatch policy, and a support desk that answers.
That's the part that decides whether a robotaxi network works in a given city — and it's local, capital-intensive, and unglamorous. Which is why we're starting on it now, well ahead of launch.
A hundred cars is a real estate problem first
Before it's a technology problem, it's land, power, and logistics. Depot sites with the right curb access. Utility capacity for overnight charging at scale. Cleaning and maintenance throughput that keeps cars earning instead of parked.
We're solving those in Charlotte now, ahead of launch, because they take longer than anything else on the list.
Work with us
Tell us what you'd bring and we'll come back with specifics.
- Land or structured parking near Uptown, CLT, or the 485 ring
- Charging infrastructure and utility capacity
- Fleet insurance, maintenance, and cleaning operations
- Venues and employers who want dedicated pickup zones
Questions we get
So who's driving?
Nobody in the front seat. The vehicles run the manufacturer's autonomous driving system. We operate the fleet around it — dispatch, charging, cleaning, insurance, maintenance, and a remote support desk staffed by people, reachable from inside the car for the whole trip.
Is this legal in North Carolina yet?
North Carolina has a state framework for fully autonomous vehicles, and cities set their own rules for curb use, permits, and airport access. Actual launch also depends on the vehicle manufacturer clearing its own regulatory and rollout milestones.
We're building the operating side now so the fleet can move the week everything lines up rather than a year after.
What will a ride cost?
Less than the same trip on a driver-based app today — that's the whole economic case for the model. We're not quoting a fare before we've run a mile, and any number you see on a pre-launch website is a guess. You'll get a fixed quote before you accept a ride.
When does phase one actually start?
It depends on vehicle availability and approvals, neither of which we control. What we do control is being ready: depot secured, capital in place, permits filed, support desk hired. The date gets announced here first.