Tesla began deliveries of commercial electric pickup trucks on November 30 last year, but still does not highlight sales statistics as a separate line in its financial statements. A recall campaign made it possible to find out the number of pickup trucks produced by mid-September, and holders of places in the electronic queue also say that Tesla has begun accepting orders for basic versions of the Cybertruck without the mandatory load of options in the amount of $20,000.
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As Electrek explains, this doesn’t make the car too cheap, since the most affordable twin-engine pickup is now priced at $79,990, but it does at least give buyers the initial option of not having to overpay for the Foundation Series burden of requiring $20,000 worth of options. even the three-motor version of the Cybertruck is now available for $99,990, although previously it was impossible to buy any version of the pickup truck without $100,000 in your pocket. However, it is still impossible to order a pickup truck at the new prices in the configurator on the Tesla website, and it is currently offered at them only to owners of places in the electronic queue who filled out preliminary applications for the purchase of the Cybertruck several years or months ago. It is interesting that for buyers of the basic two-engine model for $79,990 there is no information yet on government subsidies, although according to the criteria of the relevant program it fits into the amount of less than $80,000.
The second interesting news was that all Cybertruck pickups produced between November 13 last year and September 14 were subject to recall due to the reversing camera being too slow to turn on. Tesla will traditionally be able to eliminate the defect on some of the already produced vehicles by updating the on-board software via remote channels, but the value of this event lies in the fact that the number of pickup trucks sold during the specified period is named – there were 27,185 of them. At the same time, as of the end of June, Tesla produced about 11,000 cars, which indicates the expansion of Cybertruck production.
If we assume that by the end of September the circulation was close to 30,000 pickup trucks, then at the end of the third quarter Tesla created about 19,000 vehicles. Again, in the statistics of the quarterly report they were combined with Model S and Model X, and it remains only to judge by indirect evidence that no more than 4,000 units of the latter were shipped to customers in total. For the oldest models of the brand, with the exception of the Roadster, this is not the best result.