Tracking vehicle development from announcement to production is becoming like airplane flights – long, unpredictable, chaotic, and delayed. The Tesla e-car may eventually have stuck its landing. Elon Musk announced battery-powered spaceship soldier on November 21, 2019. Since then, many deadlines have been cancelled. But on July 15, by Tesla The official Twitter page announced, “First Cybertruck built at Giga Texas!” The attached photo shows what we’re guessing is a pre-production prototype surrounded by the men and women who built it. Congratulations to everyone involved.
The first Cybertruck built at Giga Texas! 🤠 pic.twitter.com/ODRhHVsd0t
– Tesla (@Tesla)
July 15, 2023
Wish we could see more of their work, but that will be left for the official launch and handover event. For now, we can create a “gigawiper”, a single long blade that lines up along the A-pillar on the rider’s side. Can’t be sure about the shape of the steering wheel, but it doesn’t look like a yoke. If anything, if the front wheels are spinning, it looks like the steering wheel might have a flat top. And it may just be our eyes, but that bed looks smaller than we expected.
Notice the hand signals some workers are throwing—the tips of two fingers form an angle like the Cybertruck’s roof. Not easy to do like a Jeep car waved, but we had a feeling we’d see it in a minute.
The last official word we received about proper production was Limited assembly starts this year with “very slow” production, mass assembly begins next with an end goal of about 375,000 units per year. The handover event scheduled for around the end of September is likely to hand over the keys only to Tesla employees and other insiders. Prices will likely be kept secret until that time. The first and only MSRP figures we got are from 2019, when the pickup started at just under $40,000 and peaked at around $70,000 for the three-engine version. With Musk saying in May that “This is a difficult product to design and even harder to make”, and that super-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless steel is known to be a difficult material to use, we doubt it. that the entire MSRP scale has changed. Also, considering that the manufacturer wants to book profits by offering more expensive models first, the fact that the six-figure Cybertruck takes the lead shouldn’t surprise us.
Tesla has had about 1.6 million pre-orders for truck since November last year. Even if only 20% of those bookings stay — an exodus we don’t expect to happen — the queue for this person will be long.
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