Elon Musk said Tesla will keep building the Cybertruck “through the end of summer 2027” to “work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog,” Electrek reported on Nov. 11, a shift from the mid-2027 wind-down he had described only days earlier.
On Nov. 6, Musk said Tesla would wind down Cybertruck production at Giga Texas “around the middle of next year” to make room for Cybercab, Electrek reported. On Nov. 9, he wrote that the line would shut “in about 8 months” and that Tesla would “have to return deposits for a lot of people.” The new “end of summer 2027” wording, Electrek said, buys the pickup roughly two to three more months. Autocar, in a Nov. 12 report, paraphrased the same decision as continuing production “until late 2027”; Musk’s quoted phrasing, used here, is “through the end of summer 2027.” Autocar said it is not clear whether all remaining orders will be fulfilled, or whether the change signals a delay in the Cybercab programme.
Autocar also quoted Musk as saying the decision was not taken to maximise return on development costs it estimated at almost $6 billion: “This is not the smartest move from a profit-maximising standpoint btw [by the way], but there must be some room in this world for sentimentality or what’s the point?” It said about 63,000 Cybertrucks are understood to have been delivered in total, including 8,295 in the most recent financial quarter, against Musk’s earlier 250,000-a-year target. Electrek noted that Tesla also raised Cybertruck prices by up to 10% and paused orders for the base Dual Motor, leaving the cheapest available truck at $92,490, up from $69,990 in early August — figures also covered in earlier reporting on the Nov. 9 price change.