Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to make room for greater production of Cybercabs, Elon Musk said on November 6. The announcement comes less than three years after the Cybertruck reached its first customers in November 2023.
Musk’s post leaves us with an important question, and that is whether Tesla will stop building the Cybertruck entirely or move production to a different factory.
Cybertruck Sales Fell 28% Through September
Cox Automotive estimated Tesla sold 11,586 Cybertrucks in the U.S. from January through September, down 28% from 16,097 a year earlier. Third-quarter sales fell 19.7%, from 5,385 to 4,323, giving the pickup just 1.6% of U.S. EV sales through that quarter.
For all of 2025, Kelley Blue Book counted 20,237 Cybertrucks sold in the U.S., down 48% from 38,965 in 2024, Reuters reported. Tesla has also issued 11 recalls for the truck since late 2023, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration figures cited by Reuters.
That is far below the 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks a year Musk discussed in 2022 and 2023 at a fully ramped production level. When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck in 2019, it advertised a $39,900 starting price; the truck eventually reached buyers at much higher prices. Neither of those figures held up.
Tesla also abandoned Cybertruck plans for Australia and New Zealand in October and offered reservation refunds, as I reported last month. That makes it seem like more of a trend than a Cybercab issue.
Cybercab Will Take More Space at Giga Texas
Both vehicles are being built or developed at Tesla’s Austin factory. EVXL reported on Cybercabs being staged at the plant in July. My November 3 report detailed roughly two dozen Cybercabs being tested around Detroit with temporary steering wheels and human drivers. Austin is also the only known Tesla plant equipped to build the truck’s specialized components, according to Reuters.
Musk did not say how many additional Cybercabs the production change would allow. In a reply on X, he called the Cybertruck the best vehicle Tesla has ever made and the wind-down the “end of an era.” The Cybercabs’ rollout remains much smaller than Tesla’s established passenger-car business: about 570 of the more than 1,200 Tesla robotaxis running in Texas are Cybercabs, according to state Department of Motor Vehicles figures cited by Reuters.
Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill called the pickup a technology-development platform that lives on through Cybercab. When asked about existing owners, he also said Tesla would maintain spare parts and continue service support. That addresses an immediate owner concern, although the precise production and order plans remain uncertain.
EVXL’s Take
Tesla is shifting factory capacity toward Cybercab after the Cybertruck failed to reach the volume Musk once projected. The sales figures explain the business case, but they do not tell owners or future owners when production stops for the truck.
Morrill’s service assurance is useful and reassuring for owners. Buyers still need Tesla to clarify what “wind down” means for new orders and the Cybertruck’s long-term production future.
Sources: Elon Musk on X, Cox Automotive, Reuters, TeslaNorth.
EVXL uses automated tools to support research and source retrieval. All reporting is by Damien Kesteloo, edited by Haye Kesteloo.
