Tesla will cease Cybertruck production in 2027. The Texas facility will be taken over by Cybercab.
Tesla is ending production of the Cybertruck. Elon Musk confirmed on X that manufacturing of the electric pickup at the Texas Gigafactory will begin to taper off in the summer of 2027, with the freed space in the facility being taken over by Cybercab, Tesla’s autonomous taxi. The model will disappear after less than four years on the market, as sales never approached the targets set in 2019 when the company unveiled the concept.
The Cybertruck went on sale at the end of 2023 and has divided opinions from the start. Some were attracted to its unpainted, angular design, while others saw it as a refrigerator on wheels. After a brief surge in popularity upon launch, interest quickly declined. Tesla does not disclose sales figures for individual models, but according to Cox Automotive, the Cybertruck found 4,323 buyers in the third quarter of this year, and 11,586 from January to September. Industry estimates suggest that around 70,000 units have left the factory in total.
The Model 3 and Model Y are selling in hundreds of thousands of units per quarter at this time.
Tesla isn’t the first. Ford discontinued the F-150 Lightning a year ago because poor sales combined with rising costs meant that electric pickups haven’t delivered the results their manufacturers had hoped for.
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
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2026
The base version was removed from the lineup, and the rest became more expensive
Around the same time as Musk’s post, Tesla stopped accepting orders for the base Dual-Motor All-Wheel Drive version. Only the Premium and Cyberbeast models remain available, both priced 2,500 dollars higher. The Premium AWD now costs $92,490 (up from $89,990), while the Cyberbeast costs $102,490 (up from $99,990). Tesla implemented a similar price increase in August, so prices have risen twice in just a few months.
After the Cybertruck, there are two features that Tesla has introduced to a mass-produced vehicle. The first is steer-by-wire, a steering system without a mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the wheels, and the second is a 48 V low-voltage power system. It remains to be seen whether other manufacturers will adopt these features.
From the editorial team: Tesla is raising the price of a model it just announced would be discontinued, so last-minute buyers will pay $2,500 more for a car whose production will end in a few months.
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