Elon Musk said on Friday that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027 to free the floor for more Cybercab robotaxis. The post landed hours after Tesla quietly raised U.S. Cybertruck stickers again and paused new orders on the base Dual Motor trim.
Musk’s exact words, posted on X at about 3:30 PM ET / 12:30 PM PT on Nov. 6 (5:30 AM JST Nov. 7): “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.” He did not say whether the truck moves to another plant, whether residual demand gets a smaller line, or whether the nameplate ends outright. Tesla has not published a press release.
Sawyer Merritt framed the move as capacity math: Tesla sold roughly 8,000 Cybertrucks in Q3, and the same square footage can turn out many times more Cybercabs. TechCrunch, BBC and Business Insider all treated the post as the clearest signal yet that the stainless pickup is exiting the volume plan. Not a Tesla App had not published a Cybertruck wind-down piece at the time of our scan; we checked its RSS first per house rules and are confirming off Musk’s own post plus the outlets above.
The price hike that came first
On Nov. 5, before Musk’s post, Tesla’s U.S. Cybertruck design page moved again, according to TeslaNorth:
- Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive: $82,490 (listed, grayed out for new orders)
- Premium All-Wheel Drive: $92,490 (up from $84,990)
- Cyberbeast: $102,490 (up from $99,990)
Premium is up $7,500 from the August sticker and about $12,500 from early-2026 levels near $79,990. Dual Motor is up about 10% from August’s $74,990 even though the configurator no longer lets you place a new order on that trim. Tesla offered no explanation on X or in a release. Read together with Friday’s wind-down note, the higher stickers look less like a demand surge and more like managing the last stretch of a short product life.
How we got here
Cybertruck was supposed to be the Texas factory’s reason for being. Musk once talked about 250,000 a year. Reality was tens of thousands total across a few model years, with polarizing styling, a high price, and a long delay from the 2019 reveal to late-2023 deliveries. TechCrunch notes this is the third Tesla product line set aside for the AI and robotics push: Model S and Model X production already ended so Fremont space could feed Optimus.
Cybercab, by contrast, is the product Tesla is actually ramping. Cybercabs already outnumber Model Ys in the Texas Robotaxi registry (our Oct. 28 count), unsupervised Robotaxi just opened in Fort Worth, and Dallas Cybercab service is due this month. Putting the stainless truck’s floor space under that program is the blunt version of a strategy Tesla has been signaling for quarters.
Wes Morrill, Tesla’s Cybertruck engineering lead, has also been cited in secondary reports confirming the mid-2027 Texas wind-down alongside Musk’s post, according to coverage summarized by EVwire. That still leaves the “where, if anywhere, production continues” question open. For buyers who already took delivery, nothing in Musk’s wording changes ownership, warranty or Supercharger access.
What is still unclear
Musk said “winding down” and “at Gigafactory Texas,” not “canceling the Cybertruck worldwide.” Existing owners keep their trucks. Service and parts should continue. Whether a residual Cybertruck line survives somewhere else, or whether mid-2027 is a hard stop, is unanswered. So is the plan for inventory and for Dual Motor reservations that were already in the pipeline when the trim went gray.
The EVX Take
For Japan, the Cybertruck was never really on the menu: right-hand-drive never came, and the body is a non-starter for most Japanese roads and parking. The part that matters here is the Cybercab side of the sentence. Tesla is openly trading a low-volume showpiece for more robotaxi hardware, at the same moment Japan is rewriting rules for vehicles with no steering wheel (MLIT’s December path). Every extra Cybercab Tesla can build in Texas is another data point Japanese regulators and taxi operators will see. The truck was the headline. The factory reallocation is the story.
Sources: Elon Musk on X; Sawyer Merritt on X; TechCrunch; BBC; Business Insider; TeslaNorth (U.S. stickers); Reuters via Investing.com. Not a Tesla App had no Cybertruck wind-down article at scan time.
— The EVX News team
Featured image: a 2024 Tesla Cybertruck, front left, July 27, 2024. Photo: Cutlass / Wikimedia Commons (CC0, cropped and resized).
