Robobus Nightline

01 Exterior

A Semi that carries people through the night.

Production 2026 Tesla Semi cab — continuous LED lightbar, wrap windshield, camera mirrors — faired into a 53-foot high-roof sleeper instead of a freight box.

Pearl-white Tesla Semi sleeper coach on wet I-95 at blue hour — Semi nose, sleeper body

02 Interior

Twenty-eight rooms, one aisle.

Coach class. Fourteen lower pods, fourteen upper. Smoked-glass doors, pale oak, vegan leather.

Center aisle of the sleeper coach with stacked capsule pods — Center aisle, two decks

03 Deck

Seven bays. Two decks. Twenty-eight capsules.

Each bay holds four pods — upper and lower, port and starboard — off a 28-inch center aisle. First class on this chassis is eight suites. Toggle above to switch.

Forward · loungeAft · bath

Upper port

Upper starboard

Center aisle

Lower port

Lower starboard

04 I-95

Washington is the hub. Maine one way. Miami the other.

Times are I-95 driving plus 30 minutes at each Megacharger. Cruise is governed at 70 mph. Unsupervised FSD does not stop for hours-of-service. You do — in a pod.

Origin hub

Washington, DC

I-95 from DC

Northbound

Portland, ME

Maine hub. Board in DC at night, walk the Old Port at breakfast.

Distance

542 mi

Time, with charge

9h 30m

Megacharger stops

1 × 30 min

Drive only

9h

Overnight board

7:30 AM

Arrive tomorrow · 30 min per charge

0hMaine 9h 30mMiami 17h

05 Specs

Semi under the skin. Sleeper above the floor.

Figures follow the 2026 Tesla Semi Long Range sheet. Coach and First share the tractor. Starlink is on every coach, robotaxi, and Rest Stop canopy.

Chassis · Tesla Semi Long Range

Battery: 822 kWh, 4680 NCMA
Range: 500 mi at 82,000 lb GCW
Consumption: 1.7 kWh / mi
Powertrain: Tri-motor, 800 kW
Charge: MCS 3.2, 1.2 MW peak
Top-up: 60% in 30 minutes
Cruise: 70 mph governed
Autonomy: Unsupervised FSD, 10 cameras

Coach · 28 capsules

Berths: 28 private pods
Layout: 7 bays × 2 decks × 2 sides
Pod: 6.5 × 3.2 × 3.8 ft
Aisle: 28 in, two-deck
Lounge: 4 seats, lockers, Optimus closet
Link: Starlink, 8 in pod screen
Length: ~73 ft cab + coach
Width / height: 102 in / 162 in high roof

Time and cost analysis

06 Rest stops

Cracker Barrels on I-95, rebuilt as Buc-ee’s-scale Tesla yards.

Eighty-three percent of Cracker Barrel stores already sit on interstate parcels, many owned. Nightline buys the I-95 row, keeps the porch and the kitchen, and paves a charger field the size of a Buc-ee’s plaza — Superchargers for Teslas and Cybercabs, MCS for coaches and freight Semis, a country store, a robotaxi rank, an eVTOL pad. Pick a from and a to.

From

To

Time each way

17h

Miles

1,058 mi

Arrive (10 PM board)

3:00 PM tomorrow

Return (10 PM board)

3:00 PM tomorrow

I-95 · Tesla Rest Stops

North → South

07 Fleet

Optimus on the aisle. Robotaxis on the curb. Starlink in the roof.

The coach is unsupervised. The service is not imaginary staff — it is the same humanoid Tesla is already training for factory and home. Every vehicle in the network, coach and cab, carries Starlink.

Optimus humanoid rolling a galley cart down the sleeper aisle

Onboard service

A galley closet behind the lounge holds two Optimus units. They run a cart at boarding, mid-run, and thirty minutes before arrival — water, a hot tray from the Barrel Kitchen, coffee at dawn. First gets a knock at the suite door. Coach gets the aisle.

Optimus robots washing a Tesla sleeper coach at a Megacharger rest stop

Turnaround clean

While the coach Megacharges, three Optimus units strip linen, wipe capsules, and rinse the hull. A 30-minute charge window is also a 30-minute clean. No night crew in a fluorescent bay.

Autonomous robotaxis waiting under a rest-stop canopy

Last mile, Starlink on the roof

Every Rest Stop holds a Cybercab rank. You walk off the coach, luggage in the frunk, and ride the last eight miles under a Starlink antenna. The same stack is on the coach — no dead zones on I-95.

08 Network

Seaboard first. Then the rest of the continent.

Bos–Wash–Miami is the densest overnight market in the country. That is why the first spine is I-95. Overnight distance — 400 to 1,100 miles — is where sleeping beats driving and beats a 5 a.m. airport. The map grows along the interstates Tesla already wants to Megacharge.

01 · Now
Eastern seaboard
I-95 from Houlton, Maine to Miami. Washington is the hub. Cracker Barrel conversions every two to four hours. Coach and First on the same chassis.
02 · Next
Coast to coast
I-10, I-40, and I-80 as sleeper spines. Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles as second-ring hubs. Same Rest Stop playbook on owned interstate parcels.
03 · Then
Canada / USA / Mexico
Houlton into New Brunswick. I-87 to Montreal. I-5 to Vancouver. Laredo and El Paso south to Monterrey and Mexico City. Cabotage and customs yards sit next to the Megacharger field.

I-95

Now

Houlton · Boston · New York · Washington · Jacksonville · Miami

I-80

I-40

I-10

North

Then

Montreal · Toronto · Vancouver

South

Then

Laredo · Monterrey · Mexico City

Electric VTOL on a rest-stop rooftop pad above an I-95 Megacharger canopy

Phase two air

eVTOL off the pad. Short-field electric on the next lot.

Every flagship Rest Stop reserves a rooftop pad. A four-seat eVTOL covers downtown in 15–25 minutes when the robotaxi is sitting in I-95 traffic. Next door: a 2,000-foot electric STOL strip for 9-seat point-to-point — DC to Boston in about 45 minutes, DC to Savannah in 90, without the airport.

The coach remains the overnight product. Air is the overlay for people who will not give you nine hours, even asleep.