Tesla will wind down production of its Cybertruck around mid-2027, chief executive Elon Musk has said, bringing a quick end to the stainless-steel pickup after about three and a half years on sale.
Musk said in a post on X on Friday that Tesla would wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Gigafactory in Texas around the middle of next year “to make room for increased Cybercab production”, shifting the line to the company’s driverless robotaxi. Austin is the only known Tesla plant equipped to make the pickup’s specialist parts, Reuters reported.
The Cybertruck never reached the mass-market sales Tesla had targeted. US sales nearly halved in its second full year on the market, with an estimated 20,237 Cybertrucks sold in 2025, down from 38,965 in 2024, according to Kelley Blue Book estimates.
The truck’s journey was troubled from the start. Musk unveiled it at Tesla’s design studio in Hawthorne, California, on 21 November 2019, when a demonstration meant to show the windows were shatterproof went wrong and two windows cracked after metal balls were thrown at them. The moment went viral.
Tesla took reservations with a refundable $100 deposit, and Musk said there were 146,000 orders within two days, rising to 250,000 preorders in the five days after the unveiling. Production, originally promised for late 2021, was pushed back repeatedly, and the first truck came off the line at Gigafactory Texas in July 2023, with a delivery event held on 30 November 2023.
The price climbed steadily. Unveiled at $39,900 for a single-motor model, $49,900 for dual-motor and $69,900 for the tri-motor flagship, the base price had risen to $60,990 by late 2023. A dual-motor trim launched in February 2026 at $59,990, the lowest price the truck had ever sold for, but it rose to $69,990 in March and $74,990 in August. Tesla raised prices again just a day before Musk announced the wind-down, listing the dual-motor trim at $82,490, the Premium at $92,490 and the Cyberbeast at $102,490.
Tesla has issued 11 recalls for the Cybertruck since it went on sale in late 2023, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They included a recall of 3,878 trucks in April 2024 over an accelerator pedal pad that could come loose, and a recall of 46,096 trucks in March 2025 over a light bar that could delaminate and detach.
Source: Reuters — https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-cybertrucks-bumpy-run-cracked-windows-long-delays-11-recalls-2026-11-06/
