Tesla to end Cybertruck production in 2027 for Cybercab

Tesla will halt Cybertruck production next year, Elon Musk said on X, with the Texas factory space shifting to building more of the company’s two-seater Cybercab robotaxis. The wind-down caps just a few years of weak sales for the steel-clad EV: when Musk delivered the first units in late 2023, he had forecast around 250,000 sales a year, and the company once called the Texas plant the “Cybertruck factory” before construction even began. Instead, Tesla has sold only tens of thousands of the trucks in total over three years.

The cut comes as Tesla repositions around AI and robotics, with robotaxis central to that shift. Over the past two months the company has been running Cybercabs in Austin without major incidents, and it has said it plans to expand the service to other cities, starting with Dallas later this month; Tesla also runs robotaxi versions of its Model Y in Austin, Houston, Dallas and three Florida cities. The Cybertruck is the third product line Tesla has discontinued for this pivot, after it ended the Model S and Model X earlier this year to free up factory space for Optimus humanoid robots.

Musk had long fixated on the Cybertruck, first unveiled in 2019: “Probably my personal favorite for the next product is the pickup truck, and we are going to just do an amazing pickup truck,” he told investors on an earnings call that year. He promised a radical, Blade-Runner-inspired design, but Tesla overpromised on fundamentals from the start — at the 2019 reveal, where the truck’s “unbreakable” windows cracked on stage, the company said it would start under $40,000 with up to 500 miles of range. It delivered neither: launch slipped two years, partly due to the pandemic, and by late 2023 the starting price had risen to around $60,000 while top-end range had shrunk by more than 100 miles.

Sales never recovered. The design split buyers, pricing ran high, and the truck became a protest target once Musk backed Donald Trump financially in 2024 and then led the federal government’s cost-cutting effort, which fired thousands of workers, in 2025.

Why it matters

Tesla is now three product lines deep into trading legacy vehicle manufacturing for its AI and robotics bet, a wager that hinges on robotaxis and humanoid robots delivering where the Cybertruck did not.