The Tesla Cybertruck has been given a stay of execution.
Less than a week after announcing that the electric pickup was slated to be discontinued in June or July of 2027, Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be building it a little longer than that.
“In order to work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog, production will be extended through the end of summer 2027,” Musk posted to X on Wednesday.
“This is not the smartest move from a profit-maximizing standpoint btw, but there must be some room in this world for sentimentality or what’s the point?”
Musk didn’t specify when the “end of summer” is.
Musk had previously claimed that there wasn’t a demand issue for the model, even though the 70,000 sold since 2023 has fallen far short of the production line’s 125,000-unit annual capacity. He often refers to it as the best product Tesla has built so far.
The rationale behind killing it is to repurpose the factory space for Cybercab production, which Musk is more bullish about. Tesla will be owning and operating a large number of Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, but also plans to begin selling them to independent operators later this year.
Tesla hasn’t announced how many Cybertruck reservations it currently has, but it stopped taking new orders on the two lowest trims and was only offering the $104,735 Cyberbeast model at the time this story was posted.
