Tesla is winding down Cybertruck production to build more Cybercabs

Tesla is winding down production of the Cybertruck, its stainless-steel electric pickup, to free factory space for the Cybercab, the two-seat robotaxi built with no steering wheel or pedals. Elon Musk announced the change in a post on X, writing that the truck line is making room for “increased Cybercab production” at Gigafactory Texas in Austin. That plant is the only Tesla factory known to build the Cybertruck and the specialized parts it needs, so unless Tesla moves the line, this is the beginning of the end for the truck.

If you were still weighing a Cybertruck, the clock is now running, although Musk has not said when orders will close or what happens to trucks already on order. If you already own one, the first worry is parts and repairs for a vehicle about to go out of production. Wes Morrill, the Cybertruck’s lead engineer, answered that one directly on X when an owner asked: “Yes, of course! Tesla will maintain spare parts and service will continue support.”

The rest of the plan is still blank. Musk did not say whether “winding down” means a full stop or a small residual run, whether any assembly could move to another plant, or how many extra Cybercabs the freed floor space is meant to produce. Reuters noted that the Austin factory is the only site known to be equipped for the truck’s components, which makes a transfer elsewhere costly for a model that never sold in big numbers.

Those numbers explain the decision better than any statement. Tesla does not break out Cybertruck sales, but even the highest analyst estimates put total deliveries at roughly 70,000 since launch, according to The Verge, against the 250,000 a year Musk once predicted. Reuters points to multiple recalls, quality-control problems and repeated price changes. The truck has also grown more expensive: Tesla North reports the Premium All-Wheel Drive version recently listed at $92,490 on Tesla’s US design page.

For most readers outside North America, the news changes little, because the Cybertruck was never officially on sale where they live. Its body design is not road-legal across most of Europe, and Tesla cancelled the truck for Australia and New Zealand in October, refunding reservation deposits that some buyers had paid almost seven years earlier. Outside the US, Canada and Mexico, it reached only South Korea, where deliveries began in late 2025, and a handful of Gulf markets led by the United Arab Emirates, where handovers started early this year.

Swapping a slow-selling truck for a robotaxi does not solve Tesla’s harder problem. Tesla began building Cybercabs in Austin in April, and it has been registering and running them in Texas, including in Austin and Dallas, according to Tesla North. More factory space only helps if those cars can carry paying passengers without a human safety net in many more cities, and that depends on software performance and on regulators, not on how many bodies roll off the line. Musk has a long record of robotaxi deadlines that slipped.

Morrill framed the change as a handover rather than a funeral. “Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab,” he wrote, thanking the people who built it and the owners he said he will keep following.

Musk posted the announcement early on November 6, 2026, and Tesla’s official accounts had not followed it with a separate product note at the time of writing. The timetable he gave puts the wind-down around the middle of 2027, which leaves roughly the first half of that year for anyone who still wants a new Cybertruck. The next chance to hear volumes, order cut-offs or a final production date is Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report, expected in late January 2027. The truck Musk once said would sell a quarter of a million a year is giving its factory floor to a car that has no steering wheel at all.

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