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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas by the middle of next year, in a Nov. 6 post on X.
Musk said the Texas factory will make room for increased Cybercab production for Tesla's planned autonomous ride-hailing service, which the company aims to scale in major U.S. cities.
In October 2023, Musk said Tesla aimed to build 200,000 Tesla Cybertrucks a year, and potentially up to 250,000 by 2025. But the futuristic-looking electric truck, which currently costs more than $90,000, has faced poor sales since its launch in late 2023.
The Cybertruck launched with much fanfare in a live-streamed media event in Austin, Texas in November 2023, where Musk delivered the first models to customers. At the event, Tesla even showed a video of the Cybertruck outpulling a Ford F-350 diesel-powered truck in an attempt to show its utility and toughness.
But many potential buyers were put-off by the Cybertruck's radical design, including Tesla's own engineers.
In September 2023, Business Insider reported that Tesla's design chief Franz von Holzhausen told biographer Walter Isaacson in an interview for his book on Musk that a majority of people working in the company's design studio hated it. According to Issacson, Musk did not want to hear the team's concerns and Cybertruck has faced declining sales over the last several years.
Tesla does not break down sales by model in its quarterly reports. Instead, the company combines sales of the Model 3 and Model Y, and lists the remainder of its EV unit sales as "other models." In its Q3 vehicle sales report released on Oct. 2, Tesla reported deliveries of 8,295 other models in the quarter, which indicates low sales volume of the Cybertruck, with the decline in sales carrying over from last year.
Kelley Blue Book's Q4 2025 Electric Vehicle Sales Report showed Cybertruck sales down 68% YoY in the quarter, with year-to-date sales falling by 48% in 2025. Model S sales were also down over 56% YTD.
Tesla also recalled around 46,000 Cybertrucks in March 2025 for stainless steel trim above the side windows detaching from the vehicle while driving.
In November 2025, Tesla faced another setback when the company's head of the Cybertruck and Model 3 products, Siddhant Awasthi, announced he was leaving the company after eight years.
Along with the cancellation of the Cybertruck, Tesla also ended production of the Model S sedan and Model X SUV earlier this year amid declining sales. The two aging models accounted for around 3% of Tesla's global production of 1.65 million vehicles in 2025.
The Cybercab that's replacing Cybertruck production in Texas was revealed in October 2024 and was officially commercially deployed on Sept. 3 as part of Tesla's robotaxi pilot in Austin. Musk predicted in January on its earnings call that Cybercab production volume will eventually exceed that of all other Tesla vehicles combined. "It's part of our overall shift to an autonomous future," Musk said at the time.
However, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a probe of the Cybercab in September to examine how Tesla certified the approximately 1,000 of the robotaxis to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, as the vehicle lacks pedals, mirrors and a steering wheel.
While the Cybertruck never reached the volume Tesla had hoped, the company now has another new volume target: robots. During Tesla's Q4 2025 earnings call in January, Musk said that floor space at the company's California factory where the Model S and Model X were produced would be retooled for mass production of the company's humanoid Optimus robots, with the long-term goal of producing 1 million units a year.
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