Giga Texas Drone Footage Suggests the $59,990 AWD Cybertruck May Have Entered Production

New drone footage captured over Giga Texas on the morning of May 11 suggests Tesla may have begun building the $59,990 Dual Motor AWD Cybertruck, the lower-priced all-wheel-drive configuration that generated enormous demand when it launched in late February.

The footage comes from veteran drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer, who filmed the Austin factory on what he described as an early and soggy morning. What he saw was a facility buzzing with fresh Cybertruck units staged across the campus.

Tegtmeyer was careful to note that the new AWD trim is much harder to visually distinguish from the premium AWD Cybertrucks Tesla has been building for some time. He plans to return later in the week to get a better look.

Hard to say for sure, but production of the $59K AWD @Cybertruck may be just getting started here on this early and soggy morning at Giga Texas … this version is much harder to visually distinguish from the premium AWD versions, so I’ll come back on Wednesday and we’ll see if… pic.twitter.com/UX7yCQpgeC

— Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎 (@JoeTegtmeyer) May 11, 2026

The sighting lines up with the timeline Tesla set when it opened orders for the $59,990 configuration earlier this year. That brief introductory price window drew huge interest, and delivery estimates stretched quickly, a pattern that suggested strong order volume from the start.

Teslarati reported on the footage and provided additional context around what appears to be happening at Giga Texas.

Giga Texas showed unusually heavy activity on May 11, with fresh Cybertruck units visible in staging areas and a new batch that may point to the $59,990 Dual Motor AWD Cybertruck entering production. The key public evidence came from drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer, who filmed the Austin factory on a rainy morning and focused attention on several trucks staged on the property.

The visual caveat matters. The lower-priced AWD truck is much harder to separate from the premium AWD Cybertruck than the earlier lower-trim version, so the footage is a strong production signal rather than an official Tesla confirmation. The timing lines up with Tesla’s late-February launch of the $59,990 AWD configuration, a short introductory price window that quickly generated long delivery estimates.

Initial U.S. delivery windows moved from June 2026 to September through October, and later orders were pushed out as far as April 2027. The same Giga Texas activity also included continued Cybercab staging, with production-spec robotaxis visible in the outbound area as Tesla manages multiple next-generation vehicle ramps on the Austin campus.

Those delivery timeline shifts are worth paying attention to. When Tesla opened the $59,990 AWD order page, early buyers saw estimated deliveries as soon as June 2026. That window quickly slid to September or October, and customers who placed later orders were looking at April 2027. That kind of movement usually signals one thing: demand overwhelmed the initial allocation.

The fact that Giga Texas appears to be building these trucks now, months ahead of some of those pushed-back estimates, would be welcome news for buyers who locked in early.

🚨 PRODUCTION s'emballe
Giga Texas croule sous les Cybertrucks AWD 59K$. Délais explosés jusqu'en 2027.#Tesla $TSLA #Cybertruck

Les images drone 👇
–https://t.co/g2PETs8Dl7

— Tesliens (@tesliens) May 11, 2026

What makes the $59,990 AWD Cybertruck significant is the combination of price and capability.

Tesla’s Cybertruck product page frames the truck around a set of fundamentals that go beyond straight-line speed.

Tesla positions Cybertruck as a stainless-steel electric pickup built around utility, durability, and high-output electric drive rather than a conventional truck formula. The truck’s value proposition depends on more than acceleration: it is meant to serve as a work vehicle, road-trip vehicle, power source, and daily driver in one package.

That is why the lower-priced AWD configuration matters for buyers. If Tesla can pair all-wheel drive with the core Cybertruck hardware, bed utility, powered systems, range, charging performance, and truck toughness that shoppers expect from the platform, the trim becomes more than a discount model. It becomes the version that can bring Cybertruck ownership closer to mainstream truck buyers who watched the launch from the sidelines while premium configurations carried higher prices. It also gives Tesla a clearer path to testing Cybertruck demand beyond early adopters and high-spec buyers, with volume as the real test.

The other detail worth noting from the May 11 footage is that Cybercab activity has not slowed down. Finished robotaxis were visible staged around the Austin campus alongside the Cybertruck output. Tesla is running two next-generation vehicle programs out of the same facility, and the factory appears to be handling both.

Tesla has not officially confirmed that the specific trucks in the footage are the $59,990 AWD configuration, and Tegtmeyer himself acknowledged the visual identification challenge. But the timing, the volume, and the activity level at Giga Texas all point in the same direction. If production of this trim is genuinely underway, Tesla is converting one of its most popular recent order windows into real trucks faster than the stretched delivery estimates suggested it would.