Tesla Ends Australia, New Zealand Cybertruck Orders as Refunds Go Out
Reservation holders who paid A$150 deposits starting in November 2019 were told their money will return within 30 days.
By Chioma Kim ·
Tesla started telling Australian and New Zealand Cybertruck reservation holders on 23 October 2026 that their orders are void and deposits will be refunded, closing out a wait that began in November 2019.
The company put the deposit for Australian reservations at A$150. Refunds of any payments made will process within 30 days, according to the email Tesla sent. Reservation holders who instead order a new Model 3 or Model Y receive a one-year FSD (Supervised) subscription. The emails went out a day after Tesla reported third-quarter 2026 earnings.
Tesla wrote in the email that plans to produce Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand have been discontinued and that it is "unable to fulfil your reservation and it will be cancelled." Australians could reserve the truck from November 2019. A crowdsourced survey of reservations in 2020 placed Australia third behind the United States and Canada at about 3% of all Cybertruck reservations, though Tesla never confirmed regional figures, and crowdsourced tracking put total reservations near 2 million by 2023.
Tesla closed the Australian reservation page in May 2022 and replaced it with a "Get updates" button without issuing refunds at that point. In 2024, the company shipped a Cybertruck to Australia for a display tour, and Elon Musk told shareholders that year, "We might be able to certify it for other markets sometime next year." No right-hand-drive version followed. The Cybertruck is built only in left-hand-drive configuration, while Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Japan require right-hand drive, and Australia requires certification under its own design rules.
Tesla delivered 8,295 "Other Models" in the third quarter of 2026, a category now composed almost entirely of the Cybertruck since Model S and Model X production ended. Electrek estimates quarterly Cybertruck sales at 7,000 to 8,000 units, or roughly 30,000 a year, against a production line built for 250,000 annually. Australia and New Zealand have about 33 million people combined. Tesla's international rollout has been limited to left-hand-drive markets, with deliveries starting in South Korea in late 2025 and the UAE in January 2026, followed by configurators in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Israel. The truck remains unavailable in the EU, largely over pedestrian safety concerns.
US Cybertruck sales have fallen from about 39,000 in 2024.
Source: Electrek
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