Tesla to end Cybertruck production next year
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will stop making the Cybertruck electric pickup next year. About 71,000 have been sold since deliveries began in November 2023.
Electric carmaker Tesla will stop producing its Cybertruck pickup next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday. The decision removes the U.S. company's most talked-about model from production less than three years after it reached the market.
Cybertruck deliveries began in November 2023. Industry experts estimate roughly 71,000 of the vehicles have been sold since then. Reservations were far higher: during a third-quarter 2023 earnings call, Musk said they had reached 1 million, but that demand never turned into sales.
A TechCrunch columnist argues the pickup was always going to be a niche product, but that practical shortcomings also held back sales. Musk had promised a 500-mile (about 800 km) range and a price below $40,000, and the truck delivered on neither, noted the outlet's senior reporter Sean O'Kane.
Other mobility news this week
Zipline, an autonomous drone delivery startup founded in 2014, announced this week that it had raised $1.5 billion, valuing it at $21.5 billion. It is also expanding its partnership with retailer Walmart to add 300 drone delivery sites across the United States. Earlier in 2026, Zipline had raised $600 million and then another $200 million in its Series H round.
Electric truck startup Harbinger raised $240 million in a Series D round, while Humble Robotics raised $51 million in a Series A round.
Uber said on its third-quarter earnings call that only four rides were ordered through an AI agent during its busiest week in October, the week of Halloween. Separately, Waymo will end its exclusivity with Uber in the Austin and Atlanta markets starting in January 2028.
