Tesla · Cybertruck · 6 Nov 2026
Tesla will wind down Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to make room for Cybercab
Elon Musk said early Friday that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of next year so the factory can build more Cybercabs. Tesla's Giga Texas page still calls Austin the home of Cybertruck. Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill said spare parts and service support will continue. This is an announced factory change, not a completed stop (as of 6 Nov 2026).
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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
What Musk said, and what he left open
The post went up at 1:30am ET on Friday, 6 Nov (10:30pm PT Thursday). The wording is specific: production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas will be "winding down" around the middle of next year, and the stated reason is "increased Cybercab production." From the date of the post, that points to around mid-2027.
Musk did not say the Cybertruck nameplate is cancelled. He did not name a hard stop date, a final build volume, or another factory that would take the truck. Reuters, reporting the same post on 6 Nov, wrote that it was not immediately clear whether production would move or end, and that Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular hours. Treat the X post as the announcement; the factory change itself is still ahead.
Why Texas matters for this truck
Tesla's Gigafactory Texas page still describes the Austin site as "a U.S. manufacturing hub for Model Y and the home of Cybertruck." Customer deliveries of the stainless-steel pickup began from that plant on 30 Nov 2023, according to contemporary reporting by the AP and Reuters. Reuters notes that Austin is the only known Tesla facility equipped to make the model's specialized components. On the public record Tesla has given, a wind-down at Giga Texas is a wind-down of the only confirmed Cybertruck line.
Cybercab is Tesla's two-seat robotaxi design with no steering wheel or pedals. Musk's post frames floor space at the same factory as the constraint: more Cybercabs means less room for the truck line that has shared that campus since serial production started.
What the Cybertruck lead engineer added
About half an hour after Musk's post, Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill (@wmorrill3) quote-posted it and wrote that Cybertruck "was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab," thanking the people who built it and the owners whose trips he said he would keep following. Musk reposted that note at 2:56am ET (11:56pm PT).
Asked whether owners would still get long-lasting support, Morrill replied: "Yes, of course! Tesla will maintain spare parts and service will continue support." That reply is on X at 2:36am ET (11:36pm PT). It covers parts and service for trucks already built. It does not say whether a residual Cybertruck rate stays in Texas, or whether any assembly moves.
With @Cybertruck, we introduced & scaled many automotive firsts
— Tesla (@Tesla) September 10, 2026
How to read the gap between the words and the factory
Three separate claims are easy to mix up. Musk announced a wind-down of Cybertruck production at Giga Texas around mid-2027 for Cybercab capacity. Tesla's website still markets that plant as the truck's home. Morrill's posts describe the truck as a technology platform that continues through Cybercab, with parts and service remaining for owners.
None of those sources says a second Cybertruck plant is open, and none gives a final "last truck" date. Anyone shopping for a new Cybertruck now has a clearer clock on the Austin line: roughly through the first half of 2027 under Musk's wording, unless Tesla publishes a different plan. Owners of trucks already on the road have Morrill's spare-parts answer in writing. The open question is still the one Reuters flagged: whether "winding down" at the only known plant means a move, a trickle, or the end of new Cybertruck builds.
Sources: Elon Musk on X (6 Nov 2026); Tesla Gigafactory Texas; Wes Morrill on X (quote-post and spare-parts reply); Elon Musk repost of Morrill; Reuters via Investing.com (6 Nov 2026); AP/Reuters on first deliveries (30 Nov 2023). Hero photo: Premeditated / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Video: @Tesla. As of 6 Nov 2026.
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