Tesla to Wind Down Cybertruck Production at Giga Texas Around Mid-2027 to Make Room for Cybercab
Elon Musk says the Cybertruck line at Gigafactory Texas will be dismantled around June or July of next year after an extra shift works through the backlog — factory space, people and machinery go to scaling the Cybercab instead.
AUSTIN — Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to expand production of the Cybercab, chief executive Elon Musk said on X, in a plan reported in full by Stocktwits on Monday morning.
Musk said the Cybertruck backlog exceeds what Tesla can build before the line is dismantled around June or July, and that Tesla will add an extra shift to try to complete orders in time. The truck remains in production for another eight or nine months. “There will never be another vehicle like it,” Musk wrote, as reported by Stocktwits.
The Austin stake is direct. Giga Texas is the Cybertruck's only plant, and the same site produces the 4680 battery cells used by the Cybercab, the updated Semi, the Model Y and the Cybertruck itself; Tesla's third-quarter results listed more than 40 GWh of installed annual 4680-cell capacity in Texas. Tesla began offering rides in the steering-wheel-free, two-seat Cybercab in Austin on September 3, limited to parts of the city — and a separate Monday report in The Gold Standard, citing Tesla trackers, said the Austin Robotaxi service now starts at 5 a.m., stretching its window to 21 hours a day.
Two cautions ride with the announcement. Tesla shares slipped nearly 1 percent overnight heading into Monday, Stocktwits reported, and a second project in the same report — Terafab, the Tesla and SpaceX semiconductor venture — is targeting, per Nikkei, a capacity of 1 million wafers a month from 2032. Neither changes the Giga Texas fact at the center of the file: Austin's factory is being re-aimed from a pickup truck to a robotaxi.
