Tesla is now only selling one version of the Cybertruck in the US: the tri-motor Cyberbeast, which just got another $7,500 price hike to $109,990.
The Dual Motor and Premium AWD trims are still listed on Tesla’s configurator, but both are greyed out and can’t be selected. So the cheapest Cybertruck you can order today costs $109,990, up 57% from $69,990 in early August.
Two price hikes in a week
Here’s what Tesla’s US configurator shows today with a Los Angeles delivery address:
- Dual Motor AWD: $82,490, not orderable
- Premium AWD: $92,490, not orderable
- Cyberbeast: $109,990, the only trim you can select
A week ago, the Cyberbeast cost $102,490. Before that, it was $99,990. That’s a $10,000 (10%) increase in about a week on a truck that hasn’t changed: 320 miles of estimated range, 11,000 lbs of towing, and 0-60 mph in 2.6 seconds.
On November 6, the same day Elon Musk announced the end of Cybertruck production, Tesla raised Cybertruck prices by up to 10% and paused orders for the base Dual Motor. That made the $92,490 Premium AWD the entry point. Now it’s gone too, with no announcement. The configurator just stopped letting you pick it.
New inventory isn’t an alternative either. When we checked, Tesla’s inventory search showed no new Cybertrucks within 200 miles of Los Angeles.
So much for the backlog
This comes two days after Musk extended Cybertruck production through the end of summer 2027 to “work through more of the Cybertruck order backlog.” On Monday, he claimed the order rate “far exceeds” production and that Tesla would “have to return deposits for a lot of people.”
If there really is a backlog, cutting off the two cheaper trims is one way to cap it before the line shuts down. It also pushes whatever demand is left toward the most expensive, highest-margin version of the truck.
But the sales data doesn’t describe a truck with a demand problem in the other direction. We estimate Tesla delivered 7,000 to 8,000 Cybertrucks in Q3, a pace of about 30,000 a year on a line with more than 125,000 units of installed capacity. And in February, Tesla was offering a dual-motor Cybertruck at $59,990 for “only the next 10 days.”
That’s $50,000 less than the cheapest Cybertruck you can order today. Nine months later.
Some of those $59,990 buyers are still waiting on delivery dates pushed into 2027. Tesla hasn’t said whether their orders, or any other Dual Motor and Premium orders in the queue, will be built before production ends.
Electrek’s Take
This is the wind-down playbook, and it’s moving faster than I expected. Announce the end, raise prices, pull the cheaper trims, and sell the last trucks in their most expensive form. Tesla is squeezing as much as it can out of every remaining Cybertruck.
I don’t blame Tesla for wanting margin on a program it’s walking away from. But it makes the “order backlog” talk look like what we said it was: an end-of-life rush Tesla created by announcing the end, now being monetized with a $109,990 sticker. Not great for anyone who was told in 2019 that this truck would start at $39,900, or that the tri-motor version would cost $69,900.
If you want a Cybertruck that isn’t a Cyberbeast, you’re now shopping used. And I’d keep an eye on used prices, because a truck that’s going out of production with no cheaper new option could hold its value better than it has over the last two years.
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