Tesla Adds Cybertruck Shift as Orders Exceed Wind-Down Capacity

Tesla will add an extra shift on its Cybertruck line at Gigafactory Texas because the truck’s order backlog is larger than the factory can build before the line is dismantled for Cybercab expansion, Elon Musk said on X on Saturday.

“The Tesla Cybertruck order backlog is currently far more than we can make before dismantling the line for Cybercab expansion around June/July next year,” Musk wrote. “We will add an extra shift to try to get all orders done in time.”

The post follows Musk’s November 6 comment that Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at Giga Texas around the middle of next year to make room for more Cybercab output. The new post narrows that window to roughly June or July 2027 and adds a plan for existing orders: more labour, not more time. Musk did not say the line change would be pushed back.

Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck in 2019 and began customer deliveries on November 30, 2023, at an event at Giga Texas.

Tesla does not report Cybertruck deliveries separately. Its “Other Models” category totalled 8,295 deliveries worldwide in the third quarter of 2026.

Truck-only figures come from U.S. sales estimates by Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book, most recently in its third-quarter EV sales report. That report put Tesla above half of all U.S. EV sales in the quarter, while the Cybertruck numbers look like this:

• 2024: 38,965
• 2025: 20,237, down 48.1%
• 2026 through September: 11,586, down 28.0% from 16,097 a year earlier
• Third quarter 2026: 4,323, after 3,519 in the first quarter and 3,744 in the second

Those numbers measure estimated U.S. sales, not orders, so they do not show how large today’s backlog is. Musk did not share an order count either.

Other details are still missing. Musk did not say when the extra shift starts or how much output it should add, whether customers who order now can still expect a build slot, or whether Cybertruck production continues anywhere after the Texas line comes out.

The extra shift is intended to fill the current backlog, but Musk has not guaranteed that every order will be built before the planned June or July 2027 line change. Customers with an open order should watch their Tesla account for a delivery estimate.