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Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas factory around the middle of 2027 to make room for the Cybercab
By Staff Writer | 7 November 2026
Elon Musk announced the end of the stainless steel pickup in a post on Friday, three years after deliveries began, as the carmaker moves its Texas plant towards driverless taxis.
Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck at its factory in Texas around the middle of 2027, its chief executive Elon Musk said on Friday 6 November. The space will be used to increase production of the Cybercab, the company's two-seat self-driving taxi.
Musk made the announcement in a post on X, the social network he owns. He did not say whether Tesla plans to build the truck anywhere else. The Cybertruck is made only at Gigafactory Texas, where it shares the plant with the Model Y and the Cybercab. Tesla also plans to build its Optimus humanoid robot there.
Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.
Elon Musk, Chief Executive, Tesla
When one user replied that the truck was the best vehicle Tesla had ever made, Musk answered: "True, but the Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time."
A truck that never found its market
Deliveries began in late 2023 after a series of delays, many of them caused by the difficulty of manufacturing the vehicle's steel body. Musk warned of the problem before sales started. On a 2023 earnings call, he said: "We dug our own grave with Cybertruck."
Tesla does not report Cybertruck sales separately. In the third quarter of 2026 it delivered 8,300 vehicles in its "other models" category, which includes the truck, against 478,000 deliveries of the Model 3 and Model Y combined. Cox Automotive, an industry data company, estimated United States sales of the Cybertruck at 20,237 last year, down 48 per cent from 38,965 in 2024. Musk's own rocket company, SpaceX, was a large buyer, spending 131 million dollars on the trucks at Tesla's list price.
The vehicle was never sold in Europe because it did not meet the required safety standards. In the United States, the 2024 model was the subject of 11 voluntary recalls, according to the federal road safety regulator, for faults including an accelerator pedal that could become trapped and an inverter fault that could cause a sudden loss of drive power.
Tesla's shift to autonomy
The decision is the latest step away from Tesla's older line-up. The company stopped making the Model S saloon and Model X SUV earlier this year as sales of those ageing models fell. It has started offering paid rides in the Cybercab, which has no steering wheel, in limited parts of Austin, Texas.
The announcement came at the end of a difficult week for Musk. Tesla shares fell by 11 per cent on Thursday, after Republican candidates he had backed lost in the midterm elections and investors sold technology stocks.
For the owners already on the road, little changes. For Tesla, the floor space in Texas now matters more as a place to build robotaxis than as a home for a pickup that sold in modest numbers.