Tesla to wind down Cybertruck in Texas to build more Cybercabs

Tesla will wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas factory next year to make room for building more Cybercabs, its driverless taxis, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on November 6.

The decision moves factory capacity away from a pickup that never came close to the sales Musk forecast and toward Tesla’s autonomous ride-hailing plans. Musk did not say whether Tesla will stop making the Cybertruck entirely or move production elsewhere.

Wes Morrill, the Cybertruck’s lead engineer, suggested the model was ending, writing on X: “Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab.” Tesla shares rose 4.7% on November 6 after Musk’s announcement.

Musk also replied “true” to a fan’s post on X that called the Cybertruck “the best vehicle Tesla has ever made” and lamented that it would be “discontinued next year.” In Musk’s reply, he added: “But the Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time.”

Sales fell far short of those hopes. Tesla sold 20,237 Cybertrucks in 2025, down from 38,965 a year earlier, according to Kelley Blue Book figures, against the 250,000 a year Musk predicted after commercial production began in 2023.

A 2025 recall covered more than 46,000 Cybertrucks over concerns that part of the trim could fall off. The high-end Cyberbeast version costs $102,000 in 2026.

Musk introduced the angular, stainless-steel truck in 2019, when its supposedly unbreakable glass shattered during a live demonstration, and said that year it had received 146,000 orders. After delays it launched in 2023. Musk kept championing it, calling it “way more awesome than people realise” in a post on X in March and the “best product Tesla has ever made to date” in April.