Musk Says Tesla Is Winding Down the Cybertruck to Build More Robotaxis

Musk wrote that the Texas pickup line will wind down around mid-2027, clearing floor space for more Cybercab robotaxis.

Tesla's Cybertruck is giving up its spot on the Austin line to a two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel, Elon Musk said on X.

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," Musk wrote, as The Verge reported Friday. He didn't follow up with volumes, a hard stop date or any word on orders people have already placed, TeslaNorth reported. Nor did he spell out if the wind-down ends at zero trucks or leaves a slower line running.

Musk once predicted Tesla would sell 250,000 Cybertrucks a year. Tesla doesn't report the truck's sales on their own, but even the most generous analyst estimates come to roughly 70,000 delivered in total since the 2023 launch, according to The Verge.

Moving the truck somewhere else wouldn't be simple. No other Tesla plant is known to build the Cybertruck, and Austin alone has the tooling for the custom parts it needs, The Verge reported. Musk hasn't said whether production will relocate. The Verge argues that would be a heavy lift for a truck that's never sold well.

The pickup's reach was already shrinking. Tesla scrapped its Cybertruck plans in Australia and New Zealand in October and gave buyers there their reservation money back, TeslaNorth reported. Tesla's U.S. design page recently priced the Premium All-Wheel Drive version at $92,490.

The space goes to the Cybercab, which has no pedals either. Tesla has already registered Cybercabs and has them on the road in Austin and Dallas, according to TeslaNorth.

Owners got an answer about support from the truck's own engineer, not from Musk. When someone on X asked about trucks already on the road, Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill wrote "Yes, of course!" and said Tesla would keep stocking spare parts and its service teams would keep backing them, TeslaNorth reported.

In a second post, Morrill called the Cybertruck "an incredible technology development platform" that "lives on through Cybercab."

Source: The Verge, retrieved November 6, 2026. Other sources: teslanorth.com.