Tesla to End Cybertruck Production in Mid-2027

Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck. Elon Musk said Friday the company will wind down production at its Texas factory around the middle of next year.

The factory space will go to the Cybercab instead. Musk announced the change in a post on X.

“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,” Musk wrote.

The Cybercab is Tesla’s two-seat robotaxi. It has no steering wheel and no pedals. Tesla has been running it in Austin and Fort Worth, and plans to start selling it to the public by the end of this year.

If production ends in mid-2027, the Cybertruck will have been on sale for about three and a half years. The first trucks reached customers in November 2023.

A sales target it never reached

Musk once said Tesla would build 250,000 Cybertrucks a year. It never came close.

Kelley Blue Book counted 20,237 Cybertrucks delivered in the United States last year, down 48 percent from 38,965 the year before. Tesla does not break out Cybertruck sales. It groups the truck with the Model S, Model X and Semi under “Other Models.” That group delivered 8,295 vehicles in the third quarter, down 48 percent from a year earlier and the lowest since the second quarter of 2021.

The Texas plant was built to make 125,000 Cybertrucks a year, according to Tesla’s latest shareholder letter. At its current pace, the truck is selling at roughly a tenth of the 250,000-a-year target.

The Cybertruck was unveiled in November 2019, a stainless-steel wedge with flat panels and sharp angles. It was supposed to take on the pickups from Ford and General Motors. It never sold in Europe, where pedestrian-safety rules made approval impossible.

What happens to owners

Musk did not say whether production will stop entirely or move to another plant. CNN reported the move looked like a full discontinuation rather than a relocation. Austin is the only Tesla plant known to have the tooling for the truck’s specialized parts.

Wes Morrill, the Cybertruck’s lead engineer, said parts and service will continue for trucks already on the road. “Tesla will maintain spare parts and service will continue support,” he wrote on X.

The Cybertruck is the second vehicle line Tesla has ended this year. The Model S and Model X lines at the Fremont factory in California were shut down earlier in the year, and that space is being converted for the Optimus humanoid robot.

The Cybercab line is built for much higher volume. It uses Tesla’s “unboxed” manufacturing process, designed to turn out one vehicle every 10 seconds at full speed. For now, Tesla has 463 Cybercabs registered in Texas, as of late October.