Hawthorne, California, Tesla aftermarket company Unplugged Performance publicly offered Tuesday to take over Cybertruck production from Tesla, funded by a consortium of investors, Electrek reported. Teslarati published the same offer, quoting the company’s Nov. 10 post on X.
Why it matters: The pitch came days after Elon Musk said Tesla would wind down Cybertruck assembly at Gigafactory Texas around mid-2027 to expand Cybercab output. Neither Musk nor Tesla had publicly responded when Electrek published its story.
“We fully support putting Cybercab first, and we’d be glad to take the Cybertruck line off your hands,” Unplugged wrote, according to both outlets. The company said it would “run it at no cost to Tesla’s floor space, headcount, or focus,” give Cybercab first call on battery cells, and pay Tesla a license fee plus Full Self-Driving and Robotaxi network revenue on every vehicle built. It said it would also build a three-row “CyberSUV” and an unmanned “CyberCargo” hauler, two variants Tesla has sometimes mentioned but has not brought to market.
Unplugged, founded in 2013 by Ben Schaffer next to Tesla’s design studio, already sells Cybertruck lift and armor kits under its Invincible line and, through its UP.FIT division, has built police versions, including vehicles delivered to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Teslarati said. In a follow-up, the company invited potential investors to email an interest address and said that outreach was only to gauge interest and was not an offer to sell securities.