Tesla to cease Cybertruck production by mid‑2027, shift to Cybercab

Tesla announced it will wind down production of the Cybertruck at its Texas gigafactory by the middle of 2027, redirecting capacity to its upcoming Cybercab robotaxi.

CEO Elon Musk posted on X on 6 November that the plant will continue building Cybertrucks for “another eight or nine months” before focusing on scaling Cybercab production. He said the decision is not due to unprofitability but to the higher opportunity cost of the truck’s complexity compared with the value of incremental Cybercab output.

The Texas facility is currently the only known site capable of manufacturing the specialised components for the angular pickup, which was first shown as a prototype in 2019 and entered customer deliveries in late 2023.

According to Reuters, US sales of the Cybertruck fell 48 % last year, with 20,237 units sold versus 38,965 in 2024, well below Musk’s earlier target of 250,000 annual units. In the third quarter of 2026 Tesla delivered around 486,500 vehicles, of which roughly 8,300 were from a category that includes the Cybertruck.

SpaceX, another Musk‑led company, has purchased over $130 million of Cybertrucks in 2025 and nearly $700 million of Tesla battery storage products in 2024‑2025.

Analyst Paul Miller noted that while Tesla’s robotaxi fleet is operating in a few US cities, most vehicles still require safety drivers and are not fully autonomous.

Source: Silicon Republic. Photo: Makara Heng / Pexels.