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# Electric shock: Tesla Cybertruck not coming to Australia
- URL: https://torquecafe.com/car-news-tesla-cybertruck-not-coming-to-australia/
- Published: 2026-10-23T03:08:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:23:30.000Z
- Description: In a move predicted by cynics prior to its unveiling, Tesla has announced the Cybertruck won’t be coming to Australia.
- Author: Jordan Mulach
- Tags: News, Electric

Tesla Australia has officially cancelled its plans to sell the Cybertruck in Australia, almost three years after the controversial electric pickup was revealed.

In an email sent to local customers today, Tesla Australia confirmed it had shelved the idea of bringing the Cybertruck to local showrooms, with those who had placed a $150 deposit set to have it refunded.

"After careful consideration, plans to produce Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand have been discontinued,” Tesla told its customers in Australia.

"As a result, we're unable to fulfil your reservation and it will be cancelled. You'll receive a full refund for any payments made. 

![Tesla Cybertruck](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a9/b3/a9b3e204-3117-4792-9a32-46184029df44/content/images/2026/10/tesla-cybertruck-1.jpg)

Tesla Cybertruck

"We appreciate this may be disappointing news and apologise for any inconvenience caused."

As partial compensation, Tesla is offering those who placed a deposit one year of complimentary [Full Self-Driving (Supervised)](https://torquecafe.com/car-news-2026-tesla-fsd-supervised-zurich-insurance-australia/), provided they buy a new Model Y or Model 3.

After being previewed in concept form in late 2019, Tesla allowed customers to place a $150 deposit for the Cybertruck, with mid-2022 figures suggesting approximately 15,000 Australians had put money down for the EV.

Based on this conservative estimate – which was made almost 18 months before the production-ready model was revealed in November 2023 – Tesla had received approximately $2.25 million from its Australian customers alone through the deposit system.

Questions over whether the Cybertruck would ever be sold here started to emerge from its unveiling, as Tesla only detailed plans for left-hand drive production, leaving out right-hand drive markets such as Australia.

![Tesla Cybertruck](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a9/b3/a9b3e204-3117-4792-9a32-46184029df44/content/images/2026/10/tesla-cybertruck-2.jpg)

Tesla Cybertruck

This was preceded by the brand announcing the Model S and Model X would no longer be made in right-hand drive, leaving the Model 3 and Model Y as its only global market models.

While Tesla brought a Cybertruck to Australia in mid-2024 as a promotional tool, it made no further announcements about plans for a local debut.

The Cybertruck’s controversial design was long thought to be a potential hindrance towards the possibility of it being made for markets such as Australia, where stringent regulations limit the vehicles which can be sold here.

Tesla most recently said the Cybertruck was “under review” for Australia [in early 2025](https://torquecafe.com/is-australia-ready-for-the-tesla-cybertruck/), claiming the underpinnings would remain the same but with an altered body.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/a9/b3/a9b3e204-3117-4792-9a32-46184029df44/content/images/2026/10/tesla-cybertruck-5.webp)

Tesla Cybertruck in Australia in early 2024

Even Tesla’s outspoken CEO Elon Musk said in 2024 that it was unlikely to be homologated outside North America.

“We might be able to certify it \[Cybertruck\] for other markets sometime next year \[2025\], but for sure this year it’s just North America,” Musk said.

“We did design the car to North American requirements, because if you start going with the superset of all international requirements, it forces a lot of constraints on Cybertruck that would make the product, frankly, worse.

“I think we’ll need to make a special version that is, for example, China-compliant or Europe-compliant, but it doesn’t really make sense to add that complexity until we’ve achieved higher-volume production on Cybertruck.”