Tesla voids Cybertruck orders

2,000,000

That is the approximate number of global reservations for the Tesla Cybertruck tracked by crowdsourced data. Yet, on October 23, Tesla told the subset of those buyers in Australia and New Zealand that their orders are no longer valid. The electric pickup will not arrive in the region, ending a wait of almost seven years.

Customers began receiving emails on October 23 confirming the cancellation. The message from Tesla stated that after careful consideration, plans to produce the Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand have been discontinued. The company said it is unable to fulfill the reservation and will process a full refund of all payments within 30 days.

Tesla is offering an alternative to keep the money within the ecosystem. Any reservation holder who places a new order for a Model 3 or Model Y will receive a free one-year subscription to FSD, or Supervised. This incentive appears designed to convert a dead truck order into a sale of a right-hand-drive vehicle that Tesla currently manufactures.

The primary obstacle to the truck's arrival was the steering wheel. The Cybertruck is built exclusively in left-hand drive. Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Japan all require right-hand-drive vehicles. Australia also mandates certification under its own specific design rules, a costly process for a vehicle facing soft demand in its home market.

Tesla has kept its international rollout strict to left-hand-drive nations. Deliveries started in South Korea in late 2025 and in the UAE in January 2026. Configurators later appeared for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Israel. The truck remains blocked in the European Union, largely due to pedestrian safety concerns.

The sales figures for the vehicle are thin. In the third quarter of 2026, Tesla delivered 8,295 units categorized as "Other Models," a bucket now dominated by the Cybertruck since production of the Model S and Model X ended. Electrek estimates quarterly sales at 7,000 to 8,000 units, or roughly 30,000 a year. That pace sits far below the production line's capacity of 250,000 units annually.

Australia and New Zealand combined have a population of about 33 million. A 2020 survey suggested Australia ranked third globally in reservations behind the US and Canada, holding about 3% of the total. Tesla quietly removed the Australian reservation page in May 2022, replacing it with a button to receive updates. In 2024, Elon Musk told shareholders the company might certify the truck for other markets the following year. That certification never materialized.