{"id":11797,"date":"2022-08-06T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/teslas-cybertruck-is-going-to-be-more-expensive-than-originally-planned\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T14:41:08","slug":"teslas-cybertruck-is-going-to-be-more-expensive-than-originally-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/teslas-cybertruck-is-going-to-be-more-expensive-than-originally-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23293309\/tesla-cybertruck-price-expensive-elon-musk-shareholder\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23293309\/tesla-cybertruck-price-expensive-elon-musk-shareholder<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"90.521766169154\">\n<p id=\"OLY96S\">Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck, that object of intense fascination and ridicule that may or may not go into production next year, was supposed to start at the extremely attractive price of $39,900. But that was back in 2019 when the Cybertruck was first announced, and as Tesla CEO Elon Musk put it recently, \u201ca lot has changed\u201d since then. <\/p>\n<p id=\"gFu8Ub\">Speaking at his company\u2019s annual shareholder meeting, Musk said that the Cybertruck\u2019s specs and price \u201cwill be different,\u201d citing inflation and other \u201cvarious issues\u201d that have cropped up in the three years since the electric truck was first unveiled. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"zhaQsV\"><q>\u201cI hate to give a little bit of bad news\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"6bL3pA\">\u201cI hate to give a little bit of bad news,\u201d he added, before going on to hype the Cybertruck as \u201cone hell of a product\u201d and a \u201cdamn fine machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"vRboEV\">Musk said that the Cybertruck would be in volume production by \u201cthe middle of next year\u201d \u2014 but of course, that has been a shifting target, too. Production was originally supposed to start in late 2021. But by August 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/8\/8\/22615539\/tesla-cybertruck-production-delayed-2022-elon-musk\">the company announced<\/a> a delay until 2022 \u2014 and then later to \u201chopefully\u201d 2023. In the meantime, competitors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/27\/23144346\/ford-delivers-first-f150-lightning-electric-truck-chevy-tesla\">Ford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/11\/23067212\/rivian-earnings-q1-2022-electric-truck-deliveries-stock\">Rivian<\/a> have launched their own electric pickups, with Ford saying that it plans to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/1\/4\/22865664\/ford-f150-lightning-double-production-150000-annual\">150,000 F-150 Lightnings<\/a> by 2023.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"3N96gu\">Musk didn\u2019t divulge any details beyond noting that the original price would not be the same. In 2019, Tesla said it would make three versions of the Cybertruck: <\/li>\n<li id=\"oPDpQ9\">Single motor rear-wheel drive with 250 miles of range, 7,500-pound towing capacity, and zero to 60mph capabilities in under 6.5 seconds for $39,900<\/li>\n<li id=\"sGOHW7\">Dual motor all-wheel drive with 300 miles of range, 10,000-pound towing capacity, and zero to 60mph in under 4.5 seconds for $49,900<\/li>\n<li id=\"Swyu0Z\">Triple motor all-wheel drive with 500 miles of range, 14,000-pound towing capacity, and zero to 60mph in under 2.9 seconds for $69,900. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"yNRU2H\">Is Tesla still set on making those three versions? Who knows? Will it actually go into production in the middle of 2023? \u201cReply hazy, try again.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"s8LF5F\"><q>Is Tesla still set on making those three versions? Who knows? <\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"O4L8FO\">Another unanswered question is the number of reservations Tesla currently has on file. The last number reported \u2014 650,000 \u2014 was from June 2020, but assumedly it has grown since then. A crowdsourced Cybertruck reservation tally by the Cybertruck forum with over 28,000 entries put <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2021\/05\/25\/tesla-cybertruck-reservations-1-million-electric-pickup-trucks\/\">reservations at over 1 million<\/a> back in May 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2022\/05\/16\/tesla-cybertruck-reservations-only-north-america\/\">according to <em>Electrek<\/em><\/a>. The number has kept growing over the last year, and it is now estimated to be close to 1.5 million reservations.<\/p>\n<p id=\"P6bCXu\">Meanwhile, Tesla has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/16\/23170714\/tesla-price-increase-june-2022-model-3-y-s\">raised prices<\/a> (again) for its non-vaporware lineup of EVs \u2014 except for the Model 3. And the company caught a bit of good news when it was revealed that the new climate deal put forward by Senate Democrats, if passed, would eliminate the cap of 200,000 vehicles sold to trigger a phaseout of the $7,500 tax credit. Tesla was the first automaker to sell 200,000 EVs, triggering the phaseout back in 2018. <\/p>\n<p id=\"SA7iUj\">But the legislation would restrict eligibility for the credits to EVs priced no higher than $55,000 for new cars and $80,000 for pickups and SUVs \u2014 which means Tesla will need to price the Cybertruck accordingly if it\u2019s to be eligible. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23293309\/tesla-cybertruck-price-expensive-elon-musk-shareholder\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/5\/23293309\/tesla-cybertruck-price-expensive-elon-musk-shareholder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck, that object of intense fascination and ridicule that may or may not go into production next year, was supposed to start at the extremely attractive price of $39,900. But that was back in 2019 when the Cybertruck was first announced, and as Tesla CEO Elon Musk put it recently, \u201ca lot has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-11797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-technology","tag-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/06\/teslas-cybertruck-is-going-to-be-more-expensive-than-originally-planned\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck is going to be more expensive than originally planned - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck, that object of intense fascination and ridicule that may or may not go into production next year, was supposed to start at the extremely attractive price of $39,900. 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