Tesla Will Wind Down Cybertruck Production in Texas Around Mid-2027 to Build More Cybercabs

Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027 to make room for more Cybercabs, the two-seat robotaxi Tesla builds with no steering wheel or pedals. Elon Musk announced the change in a post on X at 11:30 PM Arizona time on November 5, 2026. Anyone planning to buy a new Cybertruck now has a window of roughly eight months, and Tesla shareholders can see which vehicle Elon expects to fill the Austin plant next.

Tesla's own filings show how much factory floor is changing hands. The Q3 2026 update, published in October, lists the Cybertruck and the Cybercab as separate lines at Gigafactory Texas, each with more than 125,000 vehicles a year of installed capacity. Installed capacity is the most a line is built to make, and Tesla notes in the same table that it differs from the number of cars a line builds today. Elon's post means the Cybertruck's share of that floor goes to the robotaxi.

Where the Cybercab stands

The Cybercab line in Austin started building cars in the second quarter of 2026, according to Tesla's Q2 2026 update, and Tesla began giving Robotaxi rides in Cybercabs in Austin on September 3. By the end of September the Robotaxi service had logged nearly 2 million cumulative miles of unsupervised driving, and its Austin hours run from 6 AM to midnight, the Q3 update says. The Cybercab explainer covers how the car charges, how the cabin works, and Tesla's target price of under $30,000.

What it means for buyers and shareholders

The post covers production at Gigafactory Texas, the plant that has built every Cybertruck since the first one in July 2023, as the Cybertruck explainer details. Elon gave no final build date, and the post does not say whether the truck could be built at another plant later. Buyers who want one built in Texas have until around the middle of 2027 by that timeline.

For Tesla shareholders, the change moves more of Giga Texas toward the Robotaxi business. Tesla earns money from a Cybertruck once, when it is sold, while a Cybercab in Tesla's own fleet earns a fare on every ride it gives for as long as it runs. That shift from selling cars to running a network is the case the Robotaxi explainer lays out, and the Robotaxi dashboard tracks Tesla's driverless miles and fleet numbers as each quarterly report comes in.