Tesla Axes Cybertruck Down Under After 7 Years
By Daniel Rao Photo: A US-market Tesla Cybertruck photographed in 2024. No Australian version was ever built or sold; this is a file photo of the American truck, not a vehicle delivered in Australia. Credit: Praneeth Thalla, Wikimedia Commons (CC0). Seven years. That is how long some Australians waited for a truck that never existed in their country — not one production car, not one delivery, not even a right-hand-drive prototype they could sit in. On Friday morning, 23 October 2026, the wait ended the way these things usually do now: with an email. “Noooooooooooo! No @cybertruck for Australia or New Zealand,” wrote EVStraya, an Australian EV account, on X as the messages landed — eight extra vowels doing the work of a thousand-word press release. Reservation holders had put down A$150 in November 2019, weeks after the Cybertruck's unveiling, and watched it become a punchline, a status symbol and a political prop everywhere except their own driveways. Now Tesla has told them...