{"id":135293,"date":"2026-01-23T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135293\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:07:16","slug":"tesla-cybertruck-sales-down-by-nearly-50-in-2025-report-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/135293\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Cybertruck sales down by nearly 50% in 2025: report \u2013 Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coxautoinc.com\/insights-hub\/q4-2025-ev-sales-report-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tesla Cybertruck sales plummeted by nearly half last year<\/a>, according to a study that determined 2025 was the second-best year on record for electronic vehicle sales in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Cox Automotive, a data company that conducted the study, found that Elon Musk\u2019s EV company sold 38,965 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/tag\/Cybertrucks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cybertrucks<\/a> in 2024. But Tesla only sold 20,237 of its \u201celectric utility truck\u201d in 2025, marking a 48% decrease.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/22\/tesla-lost-share-california\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla lost the most share last year in EV-stronghold California<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electric vehicles enjoyed a record-breaking third quarter in 2025 followed by an expected fourth-quarter decline blamed on the revocation of government-based sales incentives. Those incentives included a $7,500 tax credit that applied to vehicles including the Cybertruck, according to USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited Cybertruck debuted to considerable hype in 2023 \u2014 four years after the vehicle was introduced as a prototype. Its release was delayed on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle has also faced several recalls since it rolled off the assembly lines. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/20\/business\/tesla-cybertruck-recall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Those defects included<\/a> a faulty exterior trim panel that forced 46,000 models to be taken off the road in 2025, according to the New York Times. That was the Cybertruck\u2019s eighth recall.<\/p>\n<p>The polarizing vehicle with its unconventional design has become an effigy for political dissidents who take exception to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/01\/20\/elon-musk-salute-inauguration-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Musk\u2019s right-wing activism<\/a>. Police said a Cybertruck was vandalized with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/03\/21\/red-swastika-sprayed-tesla-cybertruck-manhattan-investigated-hate-crime-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">spray-pain<\/a>t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/03\/21\/red-swastika-sprayed-tesla-cybertruck-manhattan-investigated-hate-crime-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ed swastika<\/a> in Lower Manhattan in March. Weeks later, a Cybertruck was similarly trashed in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>A 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/tesla\/cybertruck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Car and Driver review<\/a> praised the vehicle\u2019s speed and drivability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove it or hate it, the Tesla Cybertruck is an impressive piece of machinery,\u201d the trade publication wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/elon-musk-torn-apart-bladerunner-drive-cybertruck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has said<\/a> the Cybertruck was inspired by the futuristic 1982 Ridley Scott film \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tesla didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla Cybertruck sales plummeted by nearly half last year, according to a study that determined 2025 was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,57653,910,8892,3607,223,3621,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-135293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-auto-news","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-tesla"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}