Tesla will refund deposits to many Cybertruck customers because orders far exceed what the company can build before the truck leaves production, Elon Musk said Monday in a post on X. Production is set to end in roughly eight months.

Musk used the occasion to defend the decision to discontinue the vehicle, per TechCrunch — a notable bit of messaging, given that an order book too big to fulfill would ordinarily be an argument for building more trucks, not fewer. Tesla hasn't publicly detailed which depositors will be refunded or on what timeline beyond Musk's 'many,' leaving reservation holders to wait for specifics.

The Cybertruck arrived as Tesla's most polarizing product, and its wind-down closes one of the stranger chapters in the company's lineup. For those still in the queue, the practical takeaway is blunt: a sizable share of depositors will get their money back instead of a truck, and the window to receive one at all is now under a year. How Tesla decides who gets a vehicle and who gets a refund is the question Musk's post left open.