Tesla to End Cybertruck Production in Texas by Mid-2026

Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas will wind down around the middle of next year, Elon Musk announced Friday on X, freeing the Austin plant for expanded Cybercab output. One sentence, no press release, no transition plan. That's how a four-year vehicle program ends.

Musk's full statement: "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." The pickup first rolled off the line in July 2023, so the model dies at roughly four years of age — young even by automotive standards, where nameplates routinely live for decades.

How far short did the Cybertruck fall?

Tesla doesn't publish Cybertruck registration figures; it buries sales under "other vehicles," a category that has always been a rounding error next to the Model Y and Model 3. Third-party data fills the gap. According to an earlier report by Electrek, Tesla was selling only about 5,000 Cybertrucks per quarter around the time of its most recent price cut.

Put that against the original forecast of more than 250,000 units per year, and the pickup delivered under ten per cent of plan. Inventories reportedly piled up. In October 2025 it emerged that Musk had instructed his other companies to take unsold Cybertrucks off Tesla's hands — an unusual channel-clearing method, to put it politely.

The takeaway: this wasn't a slow ramp, it was a structural mismatch between promise and product.

What did Tesla try to fix it?

Price cuts, repeatedly, and never far enough:

• A new all-wheel-drive base model launched at the start of this year at $59,990 — a $20,000 drop from the previous cheapest version at $79,990, and the most affordable Cybertruck ever.
• A rear-wheel-drive single-motor variant at $70,000 was discontinued in September 2025 due to insufficient demand.
• The flagship Cyberbeast got a $15,000 cut in February, from $114,990 to $99,990 — exactly reversing a $15,000 increase Tesla had applied in August 2025.

None of it reached the $40,000 base price Musk originally promised. That gap — $20,000 between the cheapest real Cybertruck and the sticker Musk advertised — is likely the crux. The price-performance ratio simply didn't convince mass-market buyers.

The one-sentence verdict: Tesla priced a niche product and forecast it like a volume model.

What happens to the tooling and the Swiss plan?

Musk's post leaves questions open. He said nothing about whether Cybertruck production moves elsewhere, so for now the model's end in Texas reads as the model's end, full stop.

There's an outside chance. Two Swiss companies, Werk.lab and Revoltaris, are working to technically adapt the Cybertruck so it can pass Swiss type approval for the European market. Whether those plans survive an end of production in Texas — and whether a vehicle being phased out at home is worth homologating abroad — remains to be seen. A European compliance program for a dying model would be a bold investment thesis.

Confirmed versus announced: the Texas wind-down is a Musk statement, not a filed production plan, though Tesla's CEO saying it on X has functioned as official communication before. The Cybercab capacity increase is an intention with no numbers attached.

What to watch next

Watch the actual line changeover in Austin around mid-2026, and whether Tesla discloses Cybercab volume targets for the freed-up capacity. Also watch Werk.lab and Revoltaris: if their Swiss type-approval project continues, Cybertruck output may resurface somewhere else. If it doesn't, Austin's strangest product exits after four years and roughly 5,000 units a quarter.