Tesla Cybertruck sales are flatlining

After a brutal fewer months, Tesla income are yet picking up acknowledgment to expiring national EV taxation credits. But portion customers are snatching up Model 3s and Ys, they are progressively turning up their noses astatine the newest summation to Tesla’s lineup: the Cybertruck.

Tesla lone sold 5,385 Cybertrucks successful the 3rd quarter, down 63 percent compared to the aforesaid play successful 2024, erstwhile the automaker delivered implicit 14,000. The institution has sold a small much than 16,000 Cybertrucks truthful acold successful 2025 — a acold outcry from the 250,000 that Elon Musk erstwhile predicted would beryllium sold annually. Tesla is present expected to present astir 20,000 Cybertrucks this year, a steep driblet from the estimated 50,000 sold successful 2024.

The caller information was published by Kelley Blue Book, and reported by Business Insider. Tesla doesn’t interruption retired Cybertruck numbers specifically, alternatively lumping them successful with its 2 older vehicles, the Model S and Model X, arsenic “other models.”

The 3rd 4th was an different banger for EV sales, with a full of 438,487 units sold. That’s up 40.7 percent from the erstwhile 4th and higher by 29.6 percent twelvemonth implicit year. Shoppers rushed to snatch up disposable EVs earlier the expiration of the $7,500 taxation recognition connected September 30th. Sales are expected to driblet dramatically successful the 4th fourth — which could marque the Cybertruck’s concern adjacent worse.

Other electrical trucks haven’t fared arsenic poorly arsenic the Cybertruck. The Rivian R1T is up 13 percent this 4th twelvemonth implicit year, portion the Ford F-150 Lightning is up 39.7 percent, and GMC’s Hummer EV has accrued income 21.9 percent and Sierra EV by implicit 771 percent.

And past determination was the quality that the families of 2 young radical killed successful a fiery Cybertruck clang are suing Tesla implicit faulty doorway handles they assertion impeded their loved ones’ escape.

Things person gotten truthful dire for the Cybertruck that Elon Musk has resorted to selling them to himself. As Electrek reports, Tesla has been delivering unsold Cybertrucks to Musk’s backstage companies, SpaceX and xAI. The trucks that are going to SpaceX are intended to regenerate the company’s fleet of internal-combustion motor vehicles, according to the site.