Cybertruck production for Australia and New Zealand is no longer happening

Tesla has ended its plans to produce Cybertrucks for Australian and New Zealand markets. Reservation holders are now getting emails informing them that their orders are void and their deposits will be refunded. Since 2019, Australians have been waiting nearly seven years for a truck that Tesla now says it will not build for them.

Tesla has informed reservation holders that the Cybertruck production for Australia and New Zealand is no longer happening. The email that reservation holders received was short. After careful consideration, Tesla wrote that plans to produce Cybertrucks for Australia and New Zealand have been discontinued. As a result, they are unable to fulfill reservations, and refunds will be processed within 30 days. Tesla is also offering a free one-year subscription to FSD (Supervised) to reservation holders who order a new Model 3 or Model Y instead.

Tesla is trying to convert a dead Cybertruck reservation into a sale of a car it actually builds in right-hand drive. The emails went out a day after Tesla reported its Q3 2026 earnings. Australia wasn’t a small market on paper. A crowdsourced survey of reservations from 2020 put it third behind the US and Canada, with about 3% of all Cybertruck reservations. Tesla never confirmed regional numbers, but by 2023, crowdsourced tracking put total Cybertruck reservations at around 2 million.

Tesla quietly closed the Australian reservation page in May 2022 and replaced it with a 'Get updates' button. It didn’t refund anyone at the time. People who had already reserved just kept waiting. Then in 2024, Tesla shipped a Cybertruck down under for a display tour, and Elon Musk told shareholders that year: 'We might be able to certify it for other markets sometime next year.' Next year came and went, and the truck never got a right-hand-drive version.

The core problem is that the Cybertruck is built only in left-hand drive. Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Japan all need right-hand drive, and Australia also requires certification under its own design rules. That’s a big bill for a truck with a truck that is already having demand issues in North America.

This was the obvious outcome for a while, and Tesla should have said so years ago. Friendly reminder that Bobb Bobb coined the term CyberBust many years ago. You all may continue to re-use the term license-free.