Elon Musk says Tesla will extend Cybertruck production through end of summer

• The Cybertruck has a new lease on life (for a few months) because of an “order backlog.”
• Elon Musk previously said the truck would end production by around mid-2027.
• Now, he says production will continue through the summer.

The Cybertruck is getting a last-minute extension. Maybe call it Cyberluck?

On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk posted on X saying the angular electric truck’s production would be “extended through the end of summer 2027,” as Tesla works “through more of the Cybertruck order backlog.”

It comes five days after Musk said the Cybertruck was getting chopped from the Tesla lineup around the middle of 2027 to focus more assembly power toward Cybercab, its steering wheel-less robotaxi.

Musk said that the Cybertruck was still profitable — but the company had to kill the truck because of manufacturing “complexity.”

Wednesday’s production update also comes after Musk said that Tesla would have to “return deposits for a lot of people.”

After the Cybertruck’s 2019 unveiling, Tesla said it received more than 1 million reservations, costing $100 a pop. Musk said at the time that he expected to sell 150,000 to 250,000 units of the truck each year.

Instead, like nearly every electric pickup that has hit the US market, the Cybertruck underperformed sales expectations.

Per Cox Automotive data shared with Business Insider, Tesla sold just 76,000 Cybertrucks over the past three years. That includes the $131 million worth of Cybertruck sales to another Musk company, SpaceX, in 2025.