Tesla cancels Cybertruck for Australia and New Zealand as Cybercabs crowd Austin F1 weekend

TSLA has told Cybertruck reservation holders in Australia and New Zealand it will not launch the truck there, refunding deposits of about A$150 (roughly $105) within 30 days. The emails were first spotted by Electrek, and Tesla is offering a year of FSD (Supervised) to customers who place a new Model 3 or Model Y order instead. Some of the reservations dated back seven years, and the Texas factory never built a right-hand-drive version of the truck.

In Austin, Tesla's driverless Cybercabs were a visible presence during the Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend. A community registry listed 463 Cybercabs, and a tracker counted 1,250 sightings on Saturday, though Tesla did not formally announce a race-weekend service. Tesla AI executive Ashok Elluswamy posted a photo captioned "Robotaxis as far as the eye can see!".

Riders also found a live rear-camera view and a quiet mode on Austin Cybercabs, about two weeks after a Tesla interface engineer replied "In development" to a rider's request for the feature. Tesla has not published release notes for the change.

The two items point in different directions for the same company: one product line is being pulled from markets it never reached, while the robotaxi fleet is scaling in its home market. What to watch is whether the Cybercab fleet expands beyond Austin and whether more Cybertruck markets are dropped.