Tesla is retiring the Cybertruck. CEO Elon Musk said in an X post Friday that the company will be winding down production of the angular pickup, with Engadget reporting the phase-out will come by the middle of 2027 at the Texas Gigafactory.

The reason is capacity: the line is being cleared to ramp up output of the Cybercab, Tesla's purpose-built robotaxi, per The Verge. It's a telling trade — the company is swapping its most hyped consumer vehicle of the decade for a bet that autonomy, not trucks, is where its growth lives.

The Cybertruck's run will end well short of early ambitions. Musk once floated annual demand in the hundreds of thousands, but sales never approached those figures, and the vehicle's tenure was marked by recalls, trim-level shuffling, and price points far above the originally announced $39,900 base.

For the robotaxi program, the move signals Tesla is committing real factory space, not just keynote slides. Whether Cybercab volume can fill a Gigafactory line is the question that now matters most in Austin.