Tesla is assembling the Cybertruck in Texas — for the Cybercab.
Tesla will cease production of the Cybertruck at its Texas plant in mid-next year. This move will free up space to enable mass production of the robotaxi Cybercab. It remains unclear whether the Cybertruck will be completely discontinued or will continue to be manufactured elsewhere in the future.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared this news on his social media platform X this Friday, limiting himself to just one sentence: “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production.” In the original English: “Tesla will be winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased Cybercab production”.
This will bring an end to the production of the polarizing E-Pickup in Texas after four years. Recall that in July 2023, Tesla celebrated the start of its manufacturing. However, the model never gained traction in the mass market. While the U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer does not release sales figures for the Cybertruck, it always reports its sales under a combined category for its “other vehicles.” This figure has always been only a fraction of Tesla’s total sales, which are driven by the Model Y and Model 3. You can read our test impressions of this unconventional pickup here.
At the beginning of the year, Tesla tried again with a significantly reduced list price. The manufacturer introduced a new base Cybertruck model with all-wheel drive, pricing it at $59,990. This represented a huge discount: previously, the cheapest Cybertruck cost $79,990. This made the electric model from Tesla’s Texas factory more affordable than ever. Although Tesla once offered a single-engine Cybertruck RWD version starting at $70,000, it discontinued this option in September 2025 due to low demand. It’s clear that the Cybertruck never reached the original $40,000 base price promised by Tesla CEO Elon Musk at any point.
That is likely the key issue as well. The price-performance ratio was not convincing. According to a previous Electrek report, Tesla sold only about 5,000 vehicles per quarter at the time of the price cut, which is less than 10 percent of the original forecast of over 250,000 units per year. The manufacturer was also said to have had large inventory levels at that time. As early as October 2025, it was reported that Musk had instructed his other companies to purchase the unsold Cybertrucks.
In addition to the new base model of the Cybertruck, Tesla also reduced the price of the top-tier Cyberbeast model by $15,000 in February — from $114,990 to $99,990. This amount exactly matched what the company had increased the Cyberbeast price by in August 2025.
Meanwhile, we reported just this week that two Swiss companies are working to make the Tesla Cybertruck suitable for use in Europe. The companies Werk.lab and Revoltaris aim to technically modify the Tesla Cybertruck so that it can meet Swiss regulatory requirements. It remains to be seen whether these plans survived after the announced shutdown of production in Texas. Likewise, it is unclear whether the Cybertruck will get another chance at another production site.
x.com via handelsblatt.com, teslamag.de, reuters.com, insideevs.com