Tesla CEO Elon Musk said demand for vehicles is outpacing production as fully autonomous driving gains traction, while the company announced plans to launch Cybercab service in Dallas next month and expand its autonomous transportation network (Credit: Tesla).
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company plans to end production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year, as part of a reallocation of capacity to increase production of the Cybercab.
Musk said in a post on his Platform X on Thursday evening that “Tesla will end production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make way for increased Cybercab production.”
The move marks a retreat from what has been one of Musk’s pet projects, with the futuristic Cybertruck once touted as a rival to traditional pickup trucks.
Although it is not immediately clear whether production of the Cybertruck would move to another Tesla factory or be eliminated altogether, the Austin factory is the only known Tesla factory equipped to produce the Cybertruck.
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Musk said Tesla would end production of the Cybertruck at the company’s Texas Gigafactory in Austin starting in mid-2027. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Musk said in response to a user post on X that the Cybertruck is the “best vehicle Tesla has ever made” and said the move marks “the end of an era.”
Tesla began delivering the Cybertruck in late 2023 after years of delays. According to Kelley Blue Book, the company sold just 20,237 Cybertrucks in the United States last year – a 48% drop from 38,965 in 2024 – even though Elon Musk predicted annual sales of 250,000 units when production begins in 2023.
The Cybertruck was first revealed in 2019, an event that took an unexpected turn when Musk tried to prove its windows were unbreakable by hitting them with metal balls – thrown by Tesla’s lead designer Franz von Holzhausen – but ended up shattering two of them after they were hit.
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A fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks sits outside the Starbase construction site at the SpaceX test facility in south Texas on February 6, 2026. (Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Since the Cybertruck officially launched in 2023, Tesla has issued 11 recalls for the electric pickup, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some vehicles required physical repairs, while others were fixed through over-the-air software updates.
Musk and Tesla are focusing on the Cybercab as the automaker focuses more on AI and robotics, as the Cybercab will play a critical role in showcasing these capabilities as the company plans to serve as the basis for a global robotaxis network.
Tesla’s self-driving technology has been years behind schedule, but the company was able to begin offering paid rides in a small fleet of Cybercabs in Austin in September.
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The company still faces scrutiny from U.S. auto regulators over whether it properly self-certified Cybercab to demonstrate compliance with federal motor vehicle safety standards, and NHTSA opened an audit in September to review that certification.
“Cybertruck was an incredible platform for technology development and endures through Cybercab,” Cybertruck chief engineer Wes Morrill said in an article on X.
Cybercab remains a relatively small program at present, as the two-seater robotaxi only entered production earlier this year. Tesla has listed an installed capacity of more than 125,000 units.
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About 570 of the more than 1,200 Tesla robotaxis operating in Texas are Cybercabs, with the rest primarily Model Y vehicles, according to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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