Elon Musk said on November 11 that Tesla will keep building the Cybertruck through the end of summer 2027 so it can work through more of its order backlog. That pushes the shutdown roughly two to three months past the June or July date he gave on November 7, the day after he announced the wind-down.

Twenty-one minutes later Musk replied to his own post. He wrote that the extension is not the smartest move for profit, and that there has to be some room for sentimentality. Two days earlier he had said Tesla was ending the truck, which he says is profitable, because more Cybercabs were worth far more to the company.

Musk Set Aside the Cybercab Math He Gave Two Days Earlier

Musk’s November 9 post said the Cybertruck is not unprofitable, but that the value of extra Cybercab production vastly outweighs the cost of keeping so complex a truck. His November 11 reply puts feeling ahead of that sum: “there must be some room in this world for sentimentality.”

The extension post went up at 12:11 p.m. Eastern and gives one reason, the backlog. It does not say what the extra months do to the Cybercab expansion that was supposed to take over the truck’s floor space at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of the year. Neither does the reply.

Cybertruck owners had been pushing back since the first announcement. A Change.org petition addressed to Musk, started on November 6 by Troy Meekhof, showed 5,149 verified signatures when I checked it on November 12. Tesla tuner Unplugged Performance offered on November 10 to take over the line with outside investors. Musk’s two posts mention neither.

Tesla Has Not Told Buyers Whose Trucks the Extra Months Cover

Musk’s post says Tesla will work through more of the backlog, and it does not say all of it. On November 9 he said many buyers would get their deposits back, as EVXL reported. Neither November 11 post says how many trucks the extension adds or how many refunds it removes.

Tesla does not publish Cybertruck orders or production. Its Q3 update reports 7,004 vehicles built in the quarter in an “Other models” line that includes the truck, against Cybertruck installed capacity of more than 125,000 a year, a figure Tesla notes is not the current production rate. Musk said on November 7 that Tesla would add a shift, and his posts since give no build rate for it.

New buyers had one trim left as of this week’s reports. TeslaNorth checked Tesla’s US configurator on the evening of November 9 and found the Premium AWD grayed out at $92,490, with the Cyberbeast the only trim still selectable at $109,990, up from $102,490. Not a Tesla App reported the same change. In early August the cheapest Cybertruck a buyer could order cost $69,990.

TeslaNorth saw a January to March 2027 delivery estimate that day for one Cyberbeast configuration with Seattle selected, well inside the new end date. Musk’s posts do not say whether the Premium AWD or Dual Motor AWD will reopen now that the line runs longer.

EVXL’s Take

This is good news for people holding an order, and I take Musk at his word that he likes the truck. But the end date has now moved by roughly two to three months in five days, in posts on X, and Musk says he is overriding his own profit math to do it. A date that shifts that easily can shift again in either direction. Anyone waiting on a Cybertruck should treat “end of summer” as Musk’s intention and ask Tesla for a build confirmation in writing. Tesla knows the order count and the line rate, so it can tell each buyer today whether the extension covers their truck.

Sources: Elon Musk on X, Elon Musk’s reply on X, Tesla Q3 2026 Update, TeslaNorth, Not a Tesla App, Change.org.

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