RIP Cybertruck. Musk Says Tesla Winding Down Production Months After It Was Called The "Biggest Flop In Automotive History" - 24/7 Wall St.
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Elon Musk once dreamed of selling hundreds of thousands of Cybertrucks a year. Now the plant that builds it is being handed to something else entirely, and the sales gap behind that decision echoes one of Detroit's most famous failures.
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Elon Musk said on X early Friday that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA | TSLA Price Prediction) will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027 to make room for more Cybercab production. Reuters, Benzinga and others reported the post. Reuters framed the move as coming while the truck “struggles to win appeal.” According to Forbes, the Texas plant is the only one that builds the truck. Musk also reshared a post from Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill that described the truck as a technology development platform whose work carries on through the Cybercab.
For now this is a slow goodbye. The truck stays in production until around mid-2027, and Musk did not say whether production stops entirely.
Tesla puts the truck into a broader reporting category, so outside counts tell the story. In May 2023, Musk estimated Tesla could eventually sell 250,000 to 500,000 trucks a year, per Forbes and Bloomberg. Cox Automotive counted 38,965 sold in 2024 and 20,237 in 2025, a 48.1% decline, followed by a record low of 3,519 in the first quarter of 2026. S&P Global Mobility totaled 7,133 U.S. registrations through May 2026.
The third quarter brought no recovery. According to Electrek, Tesla’s “Other Models” category, which effectively tracks the Cybertruck, delivered 8,295 units, compared with 15,933 a year earlier. Electrek estimated 7,000…
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