Cybertruck in 2026: the Q1 numbers and a cheaper AWD trim

Update, October 4: The new Dual Motor AWD Cybertruck began deliveries on June 12, 2026, per Torque News. It launched at $59,990 in February and moved to $69,990 on March 1, as Not a Tesla App reported, and it lists at $74,990 since late August, per electrive.

Correction, October 4: An earlier version of this post said Tesla delivered 38,500 Cybertrucks in Q1 2026. That figure came from a secondary report and does not match Tesla's own numbers: Tesla does not report Cybertruck deliveries separately, and the whole line it sits in delivered 16,130 vehicles that quarter. We have rewritten the post around Tesla's figures.

Tesla's Q1 2026 report puts Cybertruck in an "other models" line, and that line delivered 16,130 vehicles, up 25% from 12,881 in Q1 2025.

What happened

The Q1 number landed on April 2. Tesla's Q1 2026 release counted 358,023 deliveries in total: 341,893 Model 3 and Model Y, and 16,130 in the other-models line that holds Cybertruck alongside Model S and Model X. A year earlier that line delivered 12,881, per CnEVPost's Q1 2025 report. With Model S and Model X production ending this year, Cybertruck is the part of that line that keeps going.

The mix behind the headline is worth understanding. A report tracking US-only retail sales pegged Q1 2026 US volume at 3,519 units, with many shoppers waiting on the cheaper trim Tesla announced in February. Fleet buyers are part of the story too, including SpaceX adding over a thousand Cybertrucks to its own fleet, which says something when a rocket company picks its work truck.

The bigger catalyst arrived in June. The Dual Motor AWD variant, priced at $69,990 when this post went up, started deliveries on June 12, bringing the truck's entry price down by a wide margin just as production capacity had room to absorb the demand.

Our take

A 25% year-over-year gain for the line that holds the most distinctive vehicle on the road is a solid result, and the timing of the AWD trim was smart: ramp the factory first, then open the price umbrella. The buyers who held out for the cheaper trim weren't lost sales, they were queued demand, and June is when the queue started moving.

What this means for FrunkLab is straightforward. The Cybertruck owner base keeps growing, and every CT on the road is a panel that can wear a different design tomorrow without a $4,000 vinyl install. Cybertruck's flat stainless geometry is also genuinely fun to design for. The body reads almost like a series of rectangles, which means typography and graphic-heavy wraps work in a way they don't on a Model Y.

We get more Cybertruck wraps started in the studio than we used to, and the designs skew toward bolder color blocks and full-panel art rather than subtle gradients. That tracks with the truck's whole vibe.

If you're trying to figure out which 3D preview your variant gets, the vehicle support guide lays out which models and years get the 3D preview, Model S and Model X included. Open the studio and put something on a CT.