Tesla is moving some of the Cybertruck production groups to its Austin plant, according to 3 at the facility.
The shift has come as the automaker grapples with a rare annual decline in deliveries, which is seen as a proxy for sales. The EV maker delivered about 1.79 million vehicles overall in 2024, down about 1% from the previous year.
Now, some Cybertrucks are being reassigned to produce Company Y’s best-selling model.
The automobile manufacturer informed the staff in December that it would replace Cybertruck and Model production schedules and ask staff about their paint tasks, according to a survey noticed through Business Insider.
“As we continue to compare schedules to meet the wishes of the business, we will be making a replacement in Model Y and Cyber schedules and we need to make sure their personal tastes are taken into account,” the survey said.
Two employees described conversion production schedules for existing cars as unusual. Typically, such adjustments only occur for new cars, they said.
The two workers said they were told during meetings with supervisors that month that Tesla was scaling down its Cybertruck team and planned to produce fewer parts for the truck during the first quarter of 2025. The workers said some staff would move to different Cybertruck teams amid the larger schedule changes.
The 3 said that the adjustments are expected to enter into force on Monday.
Tesla has not announced schedule adjustments in its main factories, Nevada and Fremont, California, which do not produce Cybertruck, according to six employees of these factories.
An Austin Gigafactory employee said other people sought to stay in the Cybertruck team, but “other people were forced to move on. ” The employee assumed that the replacement due to the upper benefit margins in the Y.
Tesla responded to a request for comments.
Tesla’s staff has described short breaks in Cybertruck’s production at least until October, adding a 3 -day segment in early December when Cybertruck personnel were informed that they would not be presented with paintings. Regarding this break, two employees said they had been informed that relief was the result of the lack of paint batteries and an imbalance in Cybertruck production.
Tesla has been facing questions about demand for the Cybertruck, which launched in late 2023, since the summer. While an online tally reported by Electrek indicated about 2 million people had reserved the truck before its release, Tesla’s 2024 year-end numbers show limited deliveries so far.
The company details the express figures of Cybertruck, but reported 85,133 deliveries of its Model S, Model X and Cybertruck models in 2024. A government document published as a component of a Cybertruck reminder in October indicated that Tesla had delivered around 27,000 cybertrucks .
The company stopped selling the more expensive Foundation Series version of the truck in October, and it lowered leasing prices last month.
The people who were later on the Cybertruck waiting list said this time having won their cars in a few months, faster than expected, a sign that the first consumers may have reconsidered their reserves, which are not Bindingarray
The first new Cybertruck Tesla vehicle in approximately 4 years, and the expanding festival of corporate faces, while looking to position its fleet opposed to more recent and less expensive models of inherited car brands and new Chinese companies. The car manufacturer has the largest component of American electric cars, however, last year, its market percentage fell for the first time below 50%, according to COX automotive data.
The Model Y continues to drive Tesla’s overall sales. The vehicle was the world’s best-selling car in 2023, with more than 1.2 million units sold, an analytics firm cited by Kelley Blue Book found. In 2024, Tesla reported 1.7 million combined Model 3 and Model Y deliveries.
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