Tesla’s Cybertruck is inching closer to production every day and now we’re getting a few more details on what the final product will look like. New documents surrounding the brand’s second-quarter results provide details about the truck.
Since its unveiling, the Tesla Cybertruck has split opinions despite while consistently falling behind production deadlines. After those delays, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said earlier this year that the Cybertruck would begin production before 2024. According to the brand, it’s still on schedule to go into ‘initial production’ later this year.
“Cybertruck remains on track to begin initial production later this year at Gigafactory Texas. We are now testing Cybertruck vehicles around the world for final certification and validation,” it said in new documents. Notably, reports say that the Cybertrucks that we see rolling around in public are indeed pre-production or “release candidate units.” Tesla also provided details and hints on sizing and configuration.
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It specifically said that “This might be the most unique vehicle product in decades; with that comes trialing and testing new technologies. As far as we know, Cybertruck will be the first sub-19 ft. truck (fitting into a garage) that has both four doors and 6+ ft. bed.” So we know how long it’ll be and that it’ll maintain a six-foot bed into production.
Just before the Tesla team dropped this information, Musk tweeted about the pricing of Ford’s F-150 Lightning and called it “expensive.” Typically, that wouldn’t be news at all but the fact that he did so after Ford’s CEO Jim Farley touted new discounts on the truck, which now starts at $49k, suggests that more might be going on. Could Tesla actually be about to unveil Cybertruck pricing that’s competitive or beneath that of the F-150 Lightning?
In addition, one of the newly-released photos of the Cybertruck in testing shows the monowiper in all of its less-than-brilliant glory. In the image, the EV is navigating through mud but the effectiveness of said monowiper is up for debate. If this year’s proclamation about Cybertruck production proves true, we’ll know a lot more before the year’s end.
