Elon Musk said on Friday that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas around the middle of 2027. He said the floor space is needed for the Cybercab, the robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals. The truck he once called the future of pickups is being moved out of the only factory that builds it.

The Cybertruck was his design. At the unveiling in November 2019, the "armor glass" broke on stage when a metal ball was thrown at it. He wanted the sharp stainless-steel shape, the low angles out of science fiction, and he managed the details himself. People likened it to the Homer Mobile, the car Homer Simpson built in The Simpsons. Homer was given a free hand, and he came back with a car nobody could use. That comparison was funny, and it stuck. The Cybertruck quickly became the butt of most jokes.

What looked like a concept on a stage was a hard thing to build and a worse thing to own. The bare steel showed panel gaps, fingerprints, and reports of surface rust. The body was too wide for a lot of garages. Traditional truck buyers did not get the utility they expect from a pickup. Europe never got the truck. The sharp panels and the safety rules stood in the way.

The price went the wrong direction. In 2019 the cheapest Cybertruck was promised at $39,900. Customers who finally got one paid far more. By this year the dual-motor truck was listed around $82,000, and the top Cyberbeast was over $100,000.

The sales followed. Tesla does not publish a Cybertruck count. Cox Automotive estimated 38,965 sold in the United States in 2024, then 20,237 in 2025. Musk had talked about 250,000 a year. The people who had waited in line bought one. After that, the line was gone.

The recalls kept coming. An early one covered an accelerator pedal that could be pinned down by a piece of interior trim. Others covered a rearview camera and the drive unit. A buyer was paying luxury money for a truck that was still being corrected in public.

Musk now says the truck is making room for the Cybercab. The Cybercab still has to get through regulators, and the self-driving system is unproven at the scale he describes. Ending the Cybertruck on that schedule lets him talk about the next promise. The record is simpler than that. He designed this one himself. It cost too much, it sold too few, and it was not a good truck.