Robotaxi fleet infrastructure: what DockDuty does and where it stands
DockDuty plans robotaxi depots for privately owned autonomous vehicles (parking, DC charging, cleaning, inspection, staging and incident response between rides), and we’re looking for the land to put them on. The owner platform and stall reservations are live. Orlando is the lead market, with locations planned in several more metros at the same time. We haven’t signed a site yet, and no depot is open.
Have land? Start with what a site needs.
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Live: the owner platform with a public demo, stall reservations under a published agreement, payments and refunds, and a public stall count.
Tested with real vehicles: a consent-based vehicle connection that has streamed real telemetry into the owner dashboard.
Not yet: an operating depot, a signed lease, any client vehicle on site or earning, and DockDuty’s own facility insurance.
Do you own land that could become a robotaxi depot?
We’re looking for land for DockDuty depots, and we haven’t signed a site yet. Owners have reserved 173 stalls across 8 metros, 151 of them in Orlando, the lead market. Counts as of .Live count. Each one is a refundable deposit for a depot stall, and those stalls need a site.
What a site needs
- Room for a lot of cars. A depot has to park, charge, clean and stage cars, so space comes first.
- Power that can be upgraded. Every stall is planned around DC charging, and power sets a depot’s budget and schedule (more on that below).
- Industrial or heavy commercial zoning.
- Near a highway.
- Out of the flood zone.
How a deal can work
Three shapes, and none of them is final: a lease, a ground lease (a long-term lease of the land itself), or you bring the site and DockDuty runs the operation.
How to send a site
Use the site form on the network page. It takes four answers to start (city and state, approximate parking capacity, power situation and your email), and a founder reviews every submission. Nothing is committed on either side by sending it. Questions first? support@dockduty.com reaches a founder directly.
Building autonomous car washes or vehicle-cleaning robots? Every car is planned to be cleaned between rides, so we want to hear from you too, at support@dockduty.com.
What does DockDuty do between rides?
The ride network dispatches the car. DockDuty takes care of it between rides. Each planned depot is laid out to check a returning car in, charge it, clean it and stage it to rejoin the network, to respond if something goes wrong while the car is in DockDuty’s care, and to report to the owner through the owner dashboard.
The plan, zone by zone. None of it is built yet.
- Gate and perimeter. A fenced lot, a controlled gate and cameras on every corner, around the clock.
- Intake and inspection. A walk-around photo set and a check of the VIN and the insurance when a car arrives. The owner keeps the title; DockDuty never owns the car.
- DC charging stalls. Every stall is planned around DC charging through the car’s NACS port, with conduit planned for wireless pads. Charging is metered per session, included in the client’s retainer and itemized in the owner dashboard.
- Detail and reset bay. An interior wipe-down between rides, plus sensor and camera cleaning.
- Staging lane. Charged, cleaned cars wait here to rejoin the network.
- Incident response. Responding when something goes wrong with a car in DockDuty’s care.
- Owner reporting. The owner dashboard already shows each car’s live position, trip paths and battery state; this part runs in software today.
What is built today?
The software side is live: the owner platform, stall reservations under a published agreement, and payments and refunds, plus a consent-based vehicle connection that has streamed real telemetry. The physical side, the depots, is planned and not built. The table gives each part’s status.
| Part | Status | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Owner platform and dashboard | Live | The dashboard owners use. A public demo runs a simulated fleet at app.dockduty.com/demo, with no login. |
| Live fleet map | Live | Status pins, trip paths and battery state for each car, on a live map. |
| Owner consent for vehicle data | Live | Nothing is read until the owner has accepted DockDuty’s own consent, which lists each kind of data and names location separately, and has authorized the connection with the vehicle maker. Either can be withdrawn at any time. |
| Vehicle telemetry | Tested with real vehicles | Real telemetry has streamed from connected cars into the owner dashboard. |
| Stall reservations | Live | $450 per stall under a published agreement, fully refundable until the car is onboarded and credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. |
| Payments and refunds | Live | Deposits and refunds run through Stripe. |
| Languages | Live | The site publishes in English, Spanish and Simplified Chinese, and the app’s reservation and demo pages exist in Spanish and Chinese. |
| Depots and on-site work | Planned | Parking, DC charging, cleaning, inspection, staging and incident response. Orlando is the lead market, with locations planned in several more metros at the same time. No site is signed yet. |
With each owner’s consent, DockDuty’s owner platform connects to Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. It has not been connected to a Cybercab.
How many stalls are reserved?
173 stall reservations, naming 8 metros: 50 Founding and 123 Priority. Counts as of .Live count. Each one is a refundable $450 deposit that names a preferred market. The number comes from DockDuty’s public stall count, the same source as the order book.
DockDuty’s published definition of what is counted, word for word:
“One stall reservation is one Cybercab stall reserved with a paid or clearing $450 refundable deposit that names a preferred market. The count is stalls, not clients, and a reservation is not a vehicle on site or an operating stall. Unpaid, failed, cancelled and refunded checkouts never count.”
Read the count as demand for depot stalls, not as cars on the road: a reservation is not a vehicle, revenue or an order.
| Market | Status | Stalls reserved |
|---|---|---|
| Orlando, FL | Lead market. Site not secured yet; no lease signed, nothing built. | 151 |
| Miami, FL | Depot planned. No site, lease or opening date yet. | 3 |
| Tampa Bay, FL | Depot planned. No site, lease or opening date yet. | 2 |
| Every other metro | Demand open. Owners can reserve and name the market; not a depot project. | In the dataset |
The full table, every listed metro with CSV and JSON downloads, is in
owner demand by metro. The live count itself is public JSON at
app.dockduty.com/
Where does DockDuty stand today?
Pre-launch, with the software live and the depots planned. Orlando is the lead market, with locations planned in several more metros at the same time, including Miami and Tampa Bay. We haven’t signed a site yet.
| Question | Answer today |
|---|---|
| Is a depot operating? | No. No DockDuty depot is open. |
| Is a depot lease signed? | No. No depot lease has been signed anywhere. |
| Is a client vehicle on site? | No. No client vehicle is in DockDuty’s care. |
| Is a client vehicle earning? | No. No client vehicle is earning today. |
| Is DockDuty’s own insurance bound? | No. Its garage-keeper and general liability coverage is to be bound before the depot takes in any vehicle. |
| Can privately owned cars join the ride network? | No. The owner program that DockDuty’s plans assume has not opened, and its terms are unpublished. |
DockDuty is an independent company. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with Tesla, Inc.; “Tesla” and “Cybercab” are trademarks of Tesla, Inc., used here for descriptive reference only. DockDuty holds no vehicle allocation, enrollment right or commercial agreement of any kind with that company, and claims none. Nor does it claim a partnership, approval or program access with any other ride network, vehicle maker, charging company or landowner.
How is a DockDuty depot designed and charged?
Around DC charging, and around the people who plug cars in. In every robotaxi fleet operating today, a person plugs each car into DC charging equipment at a depot between rides; no self-plugging system is in public service. DockDuty plans every stall around DC charging through the car’s NACS port, with conduit sized for wireless pads.
The Cybercabs observed in September 2026 charge DC only, through a NACS port, and have no onboard AC charger. That is DockDuty’s reading of public hands-on reports, not a published specification: the car was announced as wireless-only in October 2024, inductive pads are still described as the long-term design, and the final production configuration is not public. The detail, with sources, is in how robotaxis charge.
DockDuty’s illustrative depot concept lays a site out in zones (the gate, intake and inspection, charging, detail and reset, and staging) to turn a returning car around. It is a concept, not a final site plan, and no lease is signed.
Power sets the budget and the schedule. Public 2026 figures gathered in DockDuty’s depot-cost research put one 150kW DC fast-charge port at $90,000 to $150,000 installed, with the make-ready electrical and civil work, not the charger hardware, driving 50 to 70% of the total. Pad-mounted transformers cost $40,000 to $300,000 and were quoted at 12 to 18 months in mid-2026. These are industry figures, not DockDuty’s budget; the sources are in what a robotaxi depot costs to build. Publicly documented US robotaxi depots and charging hubs are listed, with a source for each row, in the US Robotaxi Depot Database.
Who does DockDuty want to hear from?
Anyone whose work touches what happens to a robotaxi between rides: landowners, property owners and developers, ride networks and vehicle makers, charging and energy companies, autonomous car wash and vehicle-cleaning companies, fleet operators, and the researchers and analysts who follow the category. Each has its own starting point below, and support@dockduty.com works for all of them.
| If you are | Start here |
|---|---|
| A landowner, property owner or developer | The site form on the network page: four answers to start, and a founder reviews every submission. Nothing is committed on either side by sending it. What a site needs is at the top of this page. |
| A ride network or a vehicle maker | Email support@dockduty.com, which reaches a founder directly. A useful first question is what a third-party depot would need in order to receive, charge, clean and stage privately owned cars. |
| A charging or energy company | The same address. Power drives a depot’s budget and its timeline. |
| An autonomous car wash or vehicle-cleaning company | Email support@dockduty.com. Every car is planned to be cleaned between rides. |
| A fleet operator | The operator page and its inquiry form. |
| A researcher or analyst | DockDuty Data, the datasets behind the depot business, including owner demand by metro under a CC BY 4.0 licence. |
Who is behind DockDuty?
Three founders, two of them cousins, at a registered company you can look up. DockDuty is the brand operated by DOCK DUTY LLC, a Florida limited liability company, document number L26000247958. Partnerships sit with the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Development Officer; the owner platform was built by the Chief Strategy Officer.
- David Hecht, Chief Executive Officer. David leads partnerships and depot launch operations.
- Darius Hurst, Chief Development Officer. Darius leads partnerships, land and investor relations.
- Jeremy Hecht, Chief Strategy Officer. Jeremy built DockDuty’s owner platform: the dashboard, the reservation and payments flow, the vehicle telemetry pipeline, and this website.
Their backgrounds are on the about page.
How do I reach the founders?
support@dockduty.com reaches a founder directly. A useful first note says who you are, what you run or build, which market you have in mind and what you want to know. Property owners with a possible depot site can use the site form on the network page instead, which a founder also reviews.
Common questions
What does DockDuty look for in a depot site?
Room for a lot of cars, power that can be upgraded, industrial or heavy commercial zoning, a location near a highway, and land out of the flood zone. A deal can be a lease, a ground lease, or the owner brings the site and DockDuty runs the operation. DockDuty hasn’t signed a site yet. Property owners can send a site through the form on DockDuty’s network page, and a founder reviews every submission.
Is DockDuty affiliated with any ride network or vehicle maker?
No. DockDuty is an independent company. It claims no partnership, endorsement, approval or program access from any ride network, vehicle maker, charging company or landowner, and nothing on this page describes one.
Does DockDuty operate rides?
No. DockDuty does not carry riders. Rides run on a ride network. DockDuty’s planned depots would park, charge, clean, inspect and stage privately owned cars between rides and respond to incidents, and its software reports to each car’s owner.
Is a DockDuty depot open?
No. No DockDuty depot is operating, no depot lease has been signed, and no client vehicle is on site or earning. Orlando is the lead market, with locations planned in several more metros at the same time, including Miami and Tampa Bay. We haven’t signed a site yet.
What does a stall reservation mean?
It is a refundable place in line for one stall: a $450 deposit that names a preferred market, fully refundable until the car is onboarded and credited in full against the $1,000 onboarding fee. The count is stalls, not clients, and a reservation is not a vehicle, revenue or an order.
What is live today?
The owner platform, with a public demo that runs a simulated fleet; stall reservations under a published agreement; payments and refunds; a public stall count; and a consent-based vehicle connection that has streamed real telemetry. No depot is operating.
How can a company reach the founders?
Email support@dockduty.com, which reaches a founder directly. Property owners with a possible depot site can use the site form on DockDuty’s network page, which a founder reviews. Nothing is committed on either side by sending it.
Have land that could work? Tell us about it.
A founder reviews every site. Working on something else that happens between rides? One email reaches the people building DockDuty.
We haven’t signed a site yet, and no DockDuty depot is operating.