Tesla Is Ending Cybertruck Production in Mid-2027 — Musk Says Cybercab Takes Its Place

Tesla is ending Cybertruck production. Elon Musk announced on Friday, November 6, 2026, that Tesla will wind down production of the stainless-steel pickup at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year to make room for increased production of the Cybercab robotaxi. It closes the book on one of the decade’s most talked-about vehicles — unveiled in 2019, delivered two years late, and never sold near the numbers Tesla planned.

What Musk actually said

Musk’s post was short enough to quote in full: “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.” That is the whole announcement — no press release, no earnings call, no long explanation.

Musk did not say whether production will move to another factory or stop altogether, how many more trucks will be built, or what happens to outstanding orders. Tesla did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The wording matters: “winding down” at one factory is not quite “discontinued”. But Gigafactory Texas is the only known Tesla plant equipped to build the truck’s specialised components, so unless production moves somewhere new, the wind-down is effectively the end. When a user on X called the Cybertruck “the best vehicle Tesla has ever made” and said it was being discontinued next year, Musk replied: “True, but the Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time.”

Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill agreed. “Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab,” he wrote on X, confirming that Tesla will maintain spare parts and service support will continue.

The numbers behind the decision

Tesla designed the Gigafactory Texas line to build about 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, and Musk once talked about reaching that rate by 2025. The truck never came close.

Kelley Blue Book puts US sales at 20,237 in 2025, down about 48% from 38,965 in 2024. Cox Automotive estimates 3,519 sold in Q1 2026 and 3,744 in Q2, with about 11,586 in the first nine months — down 28% on the same period in 2025. That is roughly a tenth of the annual rate Tesla had planned.

Tesla itself does not break out Cybertruck deliveries. The truck is lumped into the “Other Models” category with the Model S, Model X and Semi, and that whole group delivered just 8,295 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, down from 12,364 in the second quarter. With Model S and Model X production having ended in April, most of those deliveries are Cybertrucks.

Why the Cybertruck never took off

Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck in November 2019, promising deliveries by late 2021 at a starting price of $39,900. Its angular, stainless-steel design broke the internet, Musk said more than a million people had reserved one, and the unveiling became legend when a steel ball shattered the truck’s supposedly unbreakable “armor glass” window live on stage.

Then came the delays: the first production truck rolled off the line only in July 2023, and the first customers received theirs on November 30, 2023 — about two years late, at prices starting from $60,990 rather than the promised $39,900.

The truck that finally arrived was a genuine engineering achievement: a stainless-steel exoskeleton, steer-by-wire and 48-volt electrical architecture that later fed into other Tesla vehicles. But it was also heavy, expensive, hard to repair, and built for American pickup buyers who mostly buy conventional trucks. It sold in only a handful of markets, partly because its sharp-edged design and left-hand-drive-only production made it a poor fit for much of the world.

Two weeks earlier, the niche got smaller: on October 23, 2026, Tesla emailed reservation holders in Australia and New Zealand that plans to produce the Cybertruck there had been discontinued, cancelling reservations and refunding A$150 deposits in full, with a free year of Full Self-Driving (Supervised) offered to anyone who ordered a Model 3 or Model Y instead. Those buyers had waited since November 2019; not one Cybertruck was ever delivered in either country.

Cybercab takes over the factory floor

The space goes to the Cybercab, and that is the real story. The Cybercab is a purpose-built, two-seat robotaxi with butterfly doors and no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors. It is also built at Gigafactory Texas, where production began in April 2026, and Tesla started offering paid rides in a limited area of Austin in September 2026. About 570 of the more than 1,200 Tesla robotaxis operating in Texas are Cybercabs, according to state figures reported by CNA, with the rest mainly Model Y vehicles.

Musk has said he expects the Cybercab to become Tesla’s highest-volume vehicle, and Tesla’s third-quarter update listed installed annual capacity at the Texas plant of more than 125,000 Cybertrucks and more than 125,000 Cybercabs. The Cybercab is central to Musk’s push to turn Tesla from a carmaker into an AI and robotics company — the same shift behind this year’s biggest tech stories, from the GPT-6.2 “Astra” and Codex leak to the race over AI search, where ChatGPT now claims search volumes equal to about 20% of Google’s.

What happens to Cybertruck owners now

If you already own a Cybertruck, the news is less dramatic than the headlines suggest: the trucks on the road are not being switched off, and Musk’s own words were that “the Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time.” Morrill’s confirmation that spare parts and service support will continue is the commitment that matters most — though owners should still watch resale values and parts availability.

What is still unknown

What it means for Pakistan

Tesla has no official sales presence in Pakistan, so the Cybertruck was never officially sold here. But the story still matters to Pakistani readers: it signals where the global EV industry is heading — away from headline-grabbing halo vehicles and towards autonomous, software-led transport. The same shift shapes what eventually reaches Pakistan’s roads — the premium tech now arriving in the Pakistani market follows the same pattern, with AI features and software, not hardware alone, deciding what sells.

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