Gary Zhou 
Key Points
- 🚗 Tesla has paused production of the Cybertruck and Model Y at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.
- 📅 The production pause might continue through the end of September.
- 🛠️ Upgrades to general assembly lines #2 and #3 are cited as the reason for the pause.
- 🚁 Drone videographer Joe Tegtmeyer suggests that additional testing, training, and calibration work may be happening during the pause.
- 🤖 New manufacturing equipment, including robotic production units for the Cybertruck line, has been spotted at the Giga Texas facility.
- 🚚 Cybertrucks have been seen outside the factory’s crash testing lab, indicating ongoing pre-production work.
- 📜 Tesla is awaiting crash testing results from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) before releasing the Cybertruck.
Tesla has paused production of the Cybertruck and Model Y at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, and one person thinks that the break could last through the end of the month.
After reporting news earlier this month that Tesla would pause Giga Texas production for upgrades to general assembly lines #2 and #3, drone videographer Joe Tegtmeyer reiterated the point on X on Wednesday, adding that he thinks the factory may keep Cybertruck and Model Y production paused until the end of September.
Despite this, he also notes that his recent video shows more employee vehicles in the Giga Texas parking lot, leading him to believe that the company is performing additional testing, training and calibration work.
Additionally, Tegtmeyer reiterates the delivery of new manufacturing equipment spotted in recent weeks, including what appear to be two robotic production units for the Cybertruck line. He also points out other projects at Giga Texas, including work to the end-of-line facility steel structure, CFA pile drilling, and updates to the site’s River Road extension, among other work.
Ahead of initial deliveries of the highly anticipated electric pickup, Cybertrucks have been spotted outside the factory’s crash testing lab, along with several pre-production versions of the truck seen on public roads and at Superchargers.
Cybertrucks have also been spotted leaving Giga Texas in huge volumes, coinciding with the many sightings. More recently, CEO Elon Musk took Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a ride in a Cybertruck, and a snapshot of a potential Oracle Cybertruck police cruiser has surfaced online.
Although production of the Cybertruck has already been underway for a couple of months, the automaker is still in pre-production for the upcoming release. Tesla still needs to get crash testing results from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and a Certificate of Conformity before the Cybertruck can be released.
You can watch Joe Tegtmeyer’s full video on the continued production pause at Giga Texas here.
