Tesla Cybertruck supply occasion: All the things Elon revealed in regards to the EV pickup

With dubstep because the soundtrack and neon lighting because the backdrop, Elon Musk handed the primary Cybertrucks over to a choose group of shoppers that included Reddit co-founder and VC fund Seven Seven Six founder Alexis Ohanian and Trousdale Ventures founder and CEO Phillip Sarofim.

The livestreamed portion of the Tesla Cybertruck delivery event was a brief affair — round half-hour. However the occasion nonetheless had all the standard trappings one has come to anticipate from Tesla: the pomp and pumpy music, VIP friends and, after all, Musk.

The Tesla Cybertruck deliveries come at the least six years since Musk first tweeted about constructing a truck and 4 years since he debuted the futuristic-looking pickup.

Wanting past a number of the flashier options — it’s bullet proof — right here’s every part we all know to date. The tl;dr: the Cybertruck is much more costly than the targets Musk shared in 2019. And what different particulars have been shared, have been scant. A number of opinions, together with one from Marques Brownlee, have been way more illuminating than what Musk or the official Tesla web site have shared.

Three variations

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The Tesla Cybertruck will finally be accessible in three configurations.

The most cost effective of the batch, a single-motor rear-wheel model with 250 miles of vary, a 6.9-second zero to 60 miles per hour acceleration price and a $60,990 base value, won’t be available until 2025. That leaves a twin motor all-wheel model and the so-called Cyberbeast, which has three motors.

The all-wheel drive variant has an estimated 340-mile vary, prime velocity of 112 mph and $79,990 beginning value. The Cyberbeast comes with an estimated 320-mile vary mannequin with 845 horsepower that may journey 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.6 seconds, can hit a prime velocity of 130 mph, and comes with estimated $99,990 price ticket. Each of those variations have a claimed towing capability of 11,000 kilos.

The corporate can be going to supply a spread extender that can push the all-wheel drive model to an estimated 470 miles and the Cyberbeast to greater than 440 miles of vary. However Tesla gives no different particulars in regards to the vary extender or the pricing. After the occasion, Musk did take to X, previously Twitter, to offer a barely much less opaque rationalization. He stated the vary extender shall be an “optional pack that fits in about 1/3 of the truck bed. Still room for plenty of cargo. It’s meant for very long trips or towing heavy things up mountains.”

Nonetheless no phrase on what it would price. Both approach, any EV truck or SUV priced above $80,000 gained’t qualify for the $7,500 federal tax credit score. Which implies that center tier variant with a spread extender in all probability gained’t.

The numbers above differ from the unique specs first shared by Musk on the Cybertruck debut event in 2019. The corporate was planning on three variants, however the costs, towing and vary have since modified. The manufacturing automobile dimensions have additionally been diminished by about 5% from the prototype proven 4 years in the past, making it barely smaller than the Ford F-150 Lightning. In 2019, the corporate deliberate for its least expensive model to price $39,900, and have a towing capability of seven,500 kilos and greater than 250 miles of vary. The center model was slated to be a dual-motor all-wheel drive priced at $49,900, have a towing capability of greater than 10,000 kilos and have the ability to journey greater than 300 miles on a single cost. The third model was imagined to have three electrical motors and all-wheel drive, a towing capability of 14,000 kilos and battery vary of greater than 500 miles. That model, referred to as “tri motor,” is priced at $69,900.