Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production around mid-2027 to make room for the Cybercab, Musk says

Tesla plans to wind down production of the Cybertruck around the middle of next year, CEO Elon Musk said in an X post on Friday, The Verge reported. Musk said the company is “winding down” the truck at its Texas Gigafactory “to make room for increased Cybercab production,” The Verge wrote, quoting the post.

What changed after the post

• Prices went up. Electrek checked Tesla’s online configurator on Nov. 6 and found higher prices on every trim, with the cheapest one greyed out and no longer orderable (table below).
• Musk added that the existing trucks are not going away. Replying to a user on X, he wrote that the Cybertruck fleet “will be around for a long time,” CNBC reported.
• An extra shift for the backlog. On Saturday, Nov. 7, Musk said on X that Tesla will add an extra shift to try to complete outstanding Cybertruck orders before it dismantles the line around June or July next year, Reuters reported. “The Cybertruck order backlog is currently far more than Tesla can make,” he wrote, per the same report, which gave no order figures.
• Tesla’s own engineers weighed in. Tesla’s Wes Morrill wrote on X that the truck “lives on through Cybercab,” Fox Business reported.
• No company statement. Tesla did not respond to requests for comment from Reuters or Fortune, per NBC News’ Reuters report and Fortune.

Cybertruck prices, before and after Nov. 6

Per Electrek’s configurator check. The cheapest Cybertruck a buyer can now order is the $92,490 Premium AWD.

What we know

• The Austin, Texas, plant is the only Tesla facility known to build the Cybertruck and make its specialized parts, per The Verge.
• Musk has not said whether Cybertruck production would move to another factory, and The Verge noted that moving it would be difficult.
• The truck has been recalled 11 times. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recall database lists 11 campaigns for the Cybertruck, the first dated Jan. 30, 2024 and the most recent in April 2026.

How many have been sold

Tesla does not report Cybertruck sales separately. The best public numbers are Kelley Blue Book’s U.S. estimates for 2024 and 2025, as reported by Reuters, and a Cox Automotive estimate for the first half of 2026:

These estimates total 66,465 U.S. sales across 2024, 2025 and the first half of 2026 (our addition). The Verge separately reported that the highest analyst estimates put total deliveries since the 2023 launch at roughly 70,000; the two figures measure different things and are not directly comparable. Musk once predicted 250,000 Cybertrucks a year.

Tesla’s own deliveries report groups the Cybertruck into an “Other Models” line. Electrek reported that line fell 48% to 8,295 vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, from 15,933 a year earlier. Tesla groups the Cybertruck with its other lower-volume models, so that is not a Cybertruck-specific count. Electrek also reported that Tesla’s Q3 2026 materials list installed annual Cybertruck capacity above 125,000 units; installed capacity is not the same as production.

Why Tesla is doing it

Musk’s stated reason is to free up space for the Cybercab, Tesla’s two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals. Paid Cybercab rides began in Austin in September, per NBC and Fortune, and Fox Business reported that federal safety regulators opened an audit of how Tesla self-certified the vehicle that month. The Verge framed the move as an effort to ramp up Tesla’s robotaxi output.

What is not known

The post gives a rough timeframe, not a date. Musk’s Nov. 7 post addresses outstanding orders but gives no count, and we found no Tesla statement on reservations, how long parts and service support will last, or whether a successor truck is planned. Whether the Cybertruck would be built anywhere else has not been stated.

Why it matters

Our reading of the numbers: the 2025 U.S. sales estimate was about 8% of the 250,000 a year Musk once predicted (our arithmetic). It is an illustrative comparison, not a like-for-like one, because the estimate covers the U.S. only. Raising prices on a model that is being wound down is also consistent with Tesla no longer chasing volume on it, though Tesla has not explained the changes. The Cybertruck’s story now shifts to what Tesla builds in its place at the Austin plant. We will update this article if Tesla publishes details.