Source : The Verge
AUSTIN, Texas, November 13, 2026 – Tesla will keep building the Cybertruck until the end of summer 2027, chief executive Elon Musk has said, a few days after announcing that the electric pickup would be wound down to make room for the company’s Cybercab robotaxi. The change was reported by The Verge and other outlets.
Mr Musk first said on November 6 that Cybertruck production at Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory would be “winding down” around the middle of 2027, according to The Verge and TechCrunch. He said the factory space was needed for increased production of the two-seater Cybercab. The Associated Press described it as the end of the stainless-steel pickup, which divided opinion from the day it was unveiled.
On November 11, Mr Musk wrote on X that production would be “extended through the end of summer 2027” in order to work through more of the order backlog, as quoted by the technology site Electrek. The timeline has therefore moved more than once in a matter of days. Tesla has not published a detailed production schedule.
The Verge noted that the Austin plant is the only Tesla facility known to assemble the Cybertruck and to make its specialised components, and that Mr Musk has not said whether production could move elsewhere. Tesla does not report Cybertruck sales separately, but The Verge said even the highest analyst estimates put total deliveries at about 70,000 since the truck reached customers in late 2023. When he handed over the first vehicles, Mr Musk had predicted sales of around 250,000 a year.
Car and Driver reported that Tesla has since trimmed the Cybertruck order page to a single version, the tri-motor Cyberbeast. The magazine said it is listed at $112,235 before options, a figure that includes an order fee and a mandatory destination charge, and that the cheaper dual-motor models can no longer be ordered. Electrek separately reported price increases of up to 10 per cent.
The Cybertruck’s retirement forms part of a wider shift at Tesla towards autonomy and robotics. TechCrunch noted that it is the third product the company has discontinued to support those ambitions: earlier this year Tesla ended production of the Model S sedan and Model X SUV and decided to use that factory space to build Optimus humanoid robots.
The Cybercab is already on the road in limited form. According to TechCrunch, Tesla has spent the past two months putting Cybercabs on the streets of Austin, with no major incidents so far, and plans to expand the service to other cities, beginning with Dallas later this month. Tesla also runs robotaxi versions of the Model Y in Austin, Houston and Dallas, and in three cities in Florida.
The Cybertruck was first announced in 2019 and reached the market after a two-year delay, in part because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Verge said the vehicle has faced controversy over its divisive design, which is not road legal in many parts of the world, as well as several recalls and fatal accidents.
For buyers, the message is that the window to order a new Cybertruck is closing, although the exact end date remains unclear. Customers who have deposits down should watch for official guidance from Tesla, as the company has not yet set out in writing how pending orders will be handled.
Sources: The Verge, TechCrunch, the Associated Press, Electrek and Car and Driver.
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