Tesla to phase out Cybertruck production in Texas in favour of Cybercab
Tesla will phase out production of the Cybertruck at its Texas plant mid-next year. This will free up space to allow the Robotaxi Cybercab to be built in larger quantities. It remains unclear whether the Cybertruck will be completely discontinued or if it will be produced elsewhere in the future.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared this update on his social media platform X today, Friday, limiting his announcement to a single 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.”
This means production of the polarising electric pickup will end in Texas after just four years. We recall that in July 2023, Tesla celebrated the start of production. However, the model never gained traction in the mass market. The US electric vehicle manufacturer does not release registration figures for the Cybertruck, instead grouping its sales under “other vehicles.” This category has always accounted for only a fraction of Tesla’s total sales, which are dominated by the Model Y and Model 3. You can read our driving impressions of the unconventional pickup here.
At the beginning of the year, Tesla made another attempt with a significantly reduced list price. The manufacturer introduced a new base Cybertruck model with all-wheel drive, priced from $59,990. This represented a substantial discount: previously, the cheapest Cybertruck cost $79,990. This made the electric model from the Texas factory more affordable than ever. Although Tesla briefly offered a single-motor, rear-wheel-drive Cybertruck RWD for $70,000, it discontinued this variant in September 2025 due to insufficient demand. One thing is clear: the Cybertruck never came close to the originally promised base price of $40,000 by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
This is likely the crux of the issue: the price-performance ratio was unconvincing. According to an earlier report by _Electrek_, Tesla was selling only about 5,000 vehicles per quarter at the time of the price cut, which is less than ten per cent of the original forecast of over 250,000 units per year. The manufacturer is also said to have had large inventories at times. In October 2025, it emerged that Musk had instructed his other companies to take the unsold Cybertrucks off Tesla’s hands.
In addition to the new base model of the Cybertruck, Tesla also reduced the price of the top-of-the-line Cyberbeast variant by $15,000 in February – from $114,990 to $99,990. This reduction exactly reversed the $15,000 price increase Tesla had applied to the Cyberbeast in August 2025.