Tesla plans to wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to make room for more Cybercabs, shifting manufacturing space from its electric pickup toward a vehicle designed for driverless transportation.
CEO Elon Musk announced the plan in an X post Friday, November 6. He did not say whether Tesla would move Cybertruck production to another factory or stop making the pickup altogether.
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
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2026
The change comes after a steep decline in estimated Cybertruck sales and as Tesla expands its robotaxi business in Texas, including Dallas.
Cybertruck Sales Plunge As Texas Priorities Change
Kelley Blue Book estimated that U.S. Cybertruck sales dropped from 38,965 in 2024 to 20,237 in 2025, a 48.1% decrease. Its figures come from Cox Automotive’s vehicle-sales estimates rather than a Cybertruck-specific disclosure by Tesla.
Tesla groups Cybertruck with other vehicles in its quarterly production and delivery figures. Its latest filing shows production of 7,004 vehicles in its “other models” category during the third quarter of 2026, compared with 11,624 a year earlier. That total covers multiple models, so it does not measure Cybertruck production alone.
The planned transition reverses the manufacturing emphasis that helped make the futuristic pickup a symbol of Tesla’s Texas expansion. The first Cybertruck rolled off the Austin-area production line in July 2023, as The Dallas Express previously covered.
Cybercab Emerges As Tesla’s Next Texas Priority
The factory produced its first Cybercab in February 2026, a milestone documented by The Dallas Express. Unlike a conventional passenger vehicle, the two-seat Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals and relies on autonomous driving technology.
Tesla’s third-quarter update listed installed annual production capacity exceeding 125,000 Cybertrucks and 125,000 Cybercabs at Gigafactory Texas. The automaker cautioned that installed capacity does not represent its actual manufacturing rate.
The same report said Tesla began offering Cybercab robotaxi rides in Austin on September 3 and had accumulated nearly 2 million miles of unsupervised Robotaxi service by the end of the quarter. The mileage figure reflects Tesla’s overall robotaxi service, not Cybercab vehicles alone.
Dallas Already Figures Into Robotaxi Expansion
Tesla began rolling out unsupervised robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston in April, as The Dallas Express previously covered. That expansion used Model Y vehicles, not Cybercabs, illustrating the difference between Tesla’s existing ride-hailing fleet and its purpose-built robotaxi.
The Cybercab faces a federal compliance review as Tesla pursues wider deployment. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an audit query in September to examine whether Tesla properly certified a vehicle without conventional driver controls under federal safety standards. The inquiry did not establish that Cybercab violated those standards.
Musk’s announcement did not address whether the factory transition will change staffing levels, precisely when Cybertruck assembly will end in Texas, or how quickly Tesla expects to increase Cybercab output.
The announcement nonetheless establishes a new direction for the Texas factory: Tesla plans to devote more of its production footprint to driverless vehicles rather than the pickup that debuted there three years earlier.
Provided by Dallas Express
