Remember those million pre-orders Tesla allegedly had for the Cybertruck, according to CEO Elon Musk? It’s getting tougher and tougher for the company to explain where all of them went.
After putting around 50,000 Cybertrucks on the road, according to a recent recall filing, the company appears to be out of pre-orders and desperately looking to juice demand. Case in point: It’s now offering up to $10,000 off certain Cybertrucks it has in inventory.
The price was the big one. It delivered at twice the initially advertised price. Took it from being very competitive with ICE trucks to costing much, much more.
The announced price was better than most EVs. I’m not interested in a truck but was tempted to preorder for the announced price and features. Now, years later, no effing way would I have followed through