Tesla Sold Just 6,406 Cybertrucks Through March But Model 3 Sales Are On Fire
The Cybertruck is in a major slump.
Tesla’s sales report bundles the Cybertruck with the Model S and Model X and it doesn’t release a figure specifically for the pickup, but a drop from 23,640 for the trio in the last quarter of 2024 to 12,881 this year through March clearly indicated that things were not looking good.
Kelly Blue Book’s delivery data breaks out the Cybertruck, however, and it shows that just 6,406 were shipped in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2025, which would put it way off the pace needed to reach 2024’s total of 38,965. It was second in the electric pickup segment to the Ford F-150 Lightning’s 7,187 deliveries.
That was still good enough to make it the 10th best selling electric vehicle while the Model Y remained number one, despite its deliveries falling 33.8% to 64,051 units. Tesla’s year-over-year 8.6% sales decline in the quarter has been partly attributed to recent protests against the company due to CEO Elon Musk’s political activities, but the Model Y was also undergoing a changeover to an updated version that affected production and supplies.
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The Model 3, which was refreshed last year, had no such issue and it looks like it picked up some of the Model Y’s slack with a 70.4% spike to 52,520 deliveries in the quarter. The only other vehicles with five-digit deliveries were the Ford Mustang Mach-E at 11,607 and the Chevrolet Equinox EV at 10,329, while the fifth place Honda Prologue just came up short at 9,561. Total electric vehicle deliveries in the U.S. hit 296,227, which was an 11.4% increase over last year.
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Tesla is looking to turn things around in the electric pickup segment with the launch of a new lower cost Cybertruck Long Range model that has rear-wheel-drive, an estimated 350 miles of driving range and a starting price of $72,235, which is $10,000 less than the cheapest All-Wheel Drive trim.
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The second quarter sales report could paint a very different picture as Model Y supplies increase and the effects of the Trump administration’s new import tariffs kick in, as the Mustang Mach-E and Equinox EV are both imported from Mexico, while every vehicle Tesla sells in the U.S. is assembled in USA.