Progress has been made. But Cybertruck isn't out of the woods yet.
We're going to make it happen.
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@JeebsTX 📐 all day. Roadster is a close second.
I say this as a model Y owner: I’m tired of the road being full of cars shaped like a bar of soap.
The future should look like the future
Cybertruck and Cybercab are the two best products Tesla has ever made.
Our offer isn't about preserving a legacy. It's about preserving an autonomous future for families and explorers, on road and off.
The future is autonomous.
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A fair question we’re hearing: can UP really run the Cybertruck vehicle line?
Not alone, and not overnight. Tesla expects to dismantle the line around mid-2027. Until then, we’re organizing interested investors, recruiting experienced manufacturing talent and partners, and choosing a location. We’d like to be near Giga Texas.
Production would need to ramp back up, and it may be cell constrained. Peak output may be lower and unit costs may be higher. A reset is hard, premature death is harder. We choose reset.
We believe this is highly fundable because one production platform serves three markets: existing demand for the pickup, pent-up demand for a seven-seat SUV, and Robotaxi network vehicles in useful all-terrain form factors (seven-seat people movers, cargo haulers, and pickups). Those markets have no feasible second best alternative with Tesla Autonomy.
We’re full believers in Optimus. When Tesla has units ready, we aim to build a line where humans and humanoids work coordinated shifts around the clock.
This depends on attracting people who believe in the mission: extending the joy of this cutting-edge technology platform onto roads not yet traveled. Tesla has set the bar themselves for what a qualified operator looks like, and we intend to meet it. There is perhaps no company as loyal or committed to Tesla as UP. We’ve built on Tesla platforms since 2013, and we’d be honored to carry the torch.
We’re grateful for the outpouring of support from Tesla owners and shareholders, and we look forward to continuing the discussion.
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An open offer to Tesla: We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands.
We’d fund it with a consortium of investors and run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus. All of that goes to Cybercab. Cybercab gets first call on battery cells too. We’ll wait our turn.
Tesla gains incremental profit: a license fee, plus FSD and Robotaxi network revenues on every vehicle built.
We’d build the Cybertruck, a three-row CyberSUV, and an unmanned CyberCargo hauler. More autonomous miles, across every surface of this planet and beyond.
Worth a conversation?
From Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings call (January 28, 2026).
In response to a question about building a more conventional pickup instead of Cybertruck, Lars said:
“Actually, in its segment, Cybertruck continues to be a leader and is selling more than any other electric truck out there, while our competition continues to pull back.
But to the question itself, from a line standpoint, we always designed our lines to be super flexible. We built 3 and Y on the same line. We built S and X on the same line, still showing that we can do that. The Cybertruck line was designed in the same way and is one of our most fully ready for autonomy platforms.”
Elon then added:
“But yeah, we will transition the Cybertruck line to just a fully autonomous line. And there's obviously a market there for cargo delivery, like you say, like localized cargo delivery within a city, within a few hundred miles, something like that. There's a lot of cargo that needs to move locally within a city, and an autonomous Cybertruck could be very useful for that.”
What happened in the 10 months since?