Tesla will wind down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year, chief executive Elon Musk said in a post on X early on Friday, November 6. The space will be used for increased production of the Cybercab, the company’s purpose built two seat robotaxi. Musk called the truck the best vehicle Tesla has ever made and the wind down the end of an era, and said the existing Cybertruck fleet will be around for a long time.
The commercial record explains the decision. Tesla planned the Cybertruck line for 250,000 units a year, and its shareholder letter still lists more than 125,000 units of installed capacity, but the truck has sold at roughly a tenth of plan. Tesla does not break out Cybertruck deliveries; it bundles them into Other Models with the Model S, Model X and Semi, a category that delivered just 8,295 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, down 48 percent year over year. Cox Automotive data cited by Business Insider put Cybertruck sales at 20,000 last year and about 16,000 so far in 2026.
Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill appeared to confirm the discontinuation, writing that the truck was an incredible technology development platform that lives on through the Cybercab, and confirming in a reply that Tesla will maintain spare parts and service support for existing owners.
What Musk did not say matters as much. He gave no hard stop date, no Cybercab volume target for the freed lines, and no word on whether any Cybertruck assembly could move elsewhere; the Austin plant is the only Tesla facility known to make the model’s specialised components. Tesla did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The announcement also lands the morning after Tesla shares fell 10.77 percent in the November 5 selloff.