Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

Tesla has officially cancelled the Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand. Reservation holders are getting emails today telling them their orders are void and their deposits will be refunded. A year after the company reported its Q3 2026 earnings, this news comes as a major setback for those who had been waiting for years for the truck.

Australians started putting down A$150 to reserve the electric pickup in November 2019. That’s almost seven years of waiting for a truck Tesla now says it won’t build for them. The email, which reservation holders started sharing on social media and Reddit this morning, is short. “After careful consideration, plans to produce Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand have been discontinued,” Tesla wrote. “As a result, we’re unable to fulfil your reservation and it will be cancelled.”

Tesla says customers will get a full refund for any payments made, with refunds processed within 30 days. As a consolation, the automaker is 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. Seven years of “next year” is the core problem. 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.

The Cybertruck can’t justify the investment. Tesla’s few international Cybertruck launches all share one thing: they’re left-hand-drive markets. Deliveries started in South Korea late last year and in the UAE in January, followed by configurators in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and Israel. The truck remains blocked in the EU, mainly for pedestrian safety reasons.

And the volumes don’t support a right-hand-drive program. Tesla delivered just 8,295 “Other Models” in Q3 2026, a category that’s now almost entirely Cybertruck since Model S and Model X production ended. We estimate Cybertruck sales at 7,000 to 8,000 units last quarter, roughly a 30,000-per-year pace for a production line Tesla built for 250,000 units annually. At that rate, no CFO would sign off on re-engineering the truck for two markets that together have about 33 million people.