Tesla says it will wind down its most notorious model at Gigafactory Texas to make room for its self-driving Cybercab.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the end of the brand’s most ostentatious model, the Cybertruck, in a post on X late Thursday night. Tesla will begin winding down production of the wedge-shaped pickup at its Texas Gigafactory “around the middle of next year,” Musk said, to boost manufacturing capacity for its Cybercab robotaxi.

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

The Cybertruck will not be missed by many. Sales have been so low that Tesla doesn’t even separate them out in its financials — lumping it into an “Other models” column — with experts estimating numbers significantly lower than Tesla’s built-out manufacturing capacity and far below Musk’s sales goals. Meanwhile, Tesla and Musk have increasingly shifted their focus to AI, robotics and autonomy as the brand’s future.

Tesla unveiled the edgy, all-electric pickup truck at an event in 2019, and the cracks were already beginning to show in many of Musk’s most outlandish claims surrounding the truck. (In the case of the “bulletproof” glass, the cracks literally showed.) 

After multiple delays , deliveries finally began in 2023 . Musk had spent the intervening four years baffling people by making (and subsequently retracting) many truly bizarre statements about the EV’s capabilities, but the first nail in the Cybertruck’s coffin was the starting price, which had ballooned to $60,990, up from the initial $40,000 target touted at debut.

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