A Tesla Cybertruck at the company’s store in Colma, California, on Monday, April 21, 2025.
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tesla CEO Elon Musk said Friday that the electric car maker will “end” production of the Cybertruck at its giant Texas factory around the middle of next year.
Musk, who hailed the Cybertruck as the future of the pickup truck sector, said in a post on X early Friday that ending production at the massive facility would make room for the production of CyberCab robotaxis.
The Cybertruck, along with the Tesla Model Y and two-seat CyberCab, is produced exclusively at the company’s Texas factory, and Musk has touted it as a key product for the automaker’s future.
Musk did not say whether the company would build the Cybertruck at a separate facility, but later responded to an X user who called the update “the end of an era” and said the Cybertruck is “the best car Tesla has ever made.”
“That’s true, but the Cybertruck fleet is going to be here for a long time,” Musk said.
Tesla began deliveries of the Cybertruck in late 2023, but the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.
The Cybertruck and its polarizing design had a niche following, but it failed to reach the mass market, even though Musk predicted before its release that it would eventually sell 250,000 units a year.
When the truck was announced in 2019, Musk said, “The truck has been the same for a very long time.” “It’s been that way for about 100 years. The trucks are basically the same. We want to try something different.”
Tesla does not release sales figures by model or region, but Cox Automotive estimates U.S. sales of 20,237 Cybertrucks last year, down 48% from 38,965 in 2024.
Musk’s aerospace and technology conglomerate was the Cybertruck’s big buyer last year. space xAccording to SpaceX’s financial report, the company spent $131 million to buy the square steel truck at Tesla’s suggested retail price.
After Musk became President Donald Trump’s campaign’s biggest donor and led the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, an effort to cut federal workers and regulations, one owner told CNBC last May that the car’s unique appearance made some owners targets of rude behavior and more serious street assaults.
“No object feels more symbolic of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House than the Tesla Cybertruck,” Wired wrote in an October 2025 feature. The magazine interviewed car owners who said they had been spat at and insulted because of their car choices.
The Cybertruck’s specifications also fell short of those that Tesla had initially touted, and in some cases even those offered by major fuel-burning pickup trucks. There were also a number of quality and manufacturing issues associated with the vehicle.
The 2024 Tesla Cybertruck is subject to 11 voluntary recalls, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website. Issues ranged from the risk of a “trapped” gas pedal that could cause unintended acceleration, to software flaws and inverter failures that could cause a sudden loss of drive power.
