Tesla Just Cancelled the Cybertruck For These Two Countries

"After careful consideration, plans to produce Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand have been discontinued," the email reads. "As a result, we're unable to fulfil your reservation and it will be cancelled." Full refunds for any payments made will be processed within 30 days. Tesla is also offering reservation holders one free year of FSD (Supervised) if they order a new Model 3 or Model Y — an attempt to convert dead reservations into sales of cars it builds in right-hand drive.

Australians had been able to put down A$150 to reserve the pickup starting in November 2019, making for nearly seven years of waiting. The cancellation emails arrived one day after Tesla posted its Q3 2026 financial results.

Australia was not a trivial market on paper. A 2020 crowdsourced reservation survey ranked it third behind the US and Canada, accounting for roughly 3% of all Cybertruck reservations. Tesla never confirmed regional figures, but crowdsourced tracking pegged total reservations at roughly 2 million by 2023. The company quietly closed the Australian reservation page in May 2022, replacing it with a "Get updates" button, and did not refund anyone at the time.

In 2024, Tesla brought a Cybertruck to Australia for a display tour, and Elon Musk said at that year's shareholder meeting the company "might be able to certify it for other markets sometime next year." No right-hand-drive version ever materialized.

The Cybertruck is built in left-hand-drive form alone, while Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Japan all require right-hand drive, with Australia also demanding certification under its own design rules. Tesla's few international launches — South Korea late last year, the UAE in January, followed by configurators in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Israel — have all been in left-hand-drive markets. In the EU, the truck is still barred, mainly over pedestrian safety.

The volumes do not support the engineering spend. Tesla delivered just 8,295 "Other Models" in Q3 2026, a category now almost entirely Cybertruck following the end of Model S and Model X production.